soon to be ATCs

This weekend I am off to an annual luncheon for crafty stampers from a few Yahoo groups I belong to and we all swap Artist Trading Crads...this 12x12 page is the basis of mine

uni work...using nib pens

...and we had to some how include ourselves in the drawing, so here I am washing the dishes, the other pic. are some of the nibs I used.

a sketch for uni/a study of line work

I thought I would share the sketch I did for uni this morning, it is a look into my felting tool kit and is a study on lines in drawing

playing pretty

yet another worki in progress

I'm working on an acrylic book for FTN, and I have decided to use a pic of myself...so here I am :)

dark art

yesterday I created lots of lovely grungey/pretty flowers, today I decided to play with some of the Tattered Angels divine Glimmer Screens and impasto, the background colour is a great combination of Glimmer Mist and water colour crayons

faux rust...no rust involved

I have had a few emails about the last faux rust I did, I have to tell you that it was thought up on my trip away.
Karen Dimmock allowed me to play with a jar of Matisse Irridescent medium, and me being me and not just using it as paint, I smeared a good amount on with the back of a palette knife and stamped into it with a foam stamp...
next I sprinkled a little red embossing powder (I used 2toned terracotta), heat with heat gun, allowing it to bubble and blister, once touch dry, smear a little black stazon across with your finger (don't use the pad directly...be warned that you might get paint on it, so use a digit), now simply use your fave. red gold acrylic paint and a sea sponge and give it a dab here and there...heat again and there ya go!
Matisse is a great brand but if you don't have any, just use any pearly paint...if it needs to be thickened to hold the stamped impression, you can add impasto or structure paste...or if really desperate...PVA :)

flower power

Today I created flowers using my fave techniques...faux rust, resist stamping, fusible film, pearling, I have used old book pages and shim among other things.
A good portion of these have a new home to go to tonight...I hope they are used well :)

Funky flowers and abstract art

I thought I would share a pic. of one of the flowers I made while working away last weekend, can you believe that it is mostly paint...I know I know another tutorial wanted, I have my list of future tutes to do, I just need to find the time.

The other images are of my abstract 3D mola...instead of using scissors to cut away the materials, I simply applied heat from my trusty heat gun.
I used fusible film, organza, poly-somethingoranother, cotton fabric and book pages torn out of an old accountants book dating back to the early 1900's

Molas, uni grades and everything else

I had a great weekend with the Central Coast Deco Art gals on the weekend...The work they created was spectacular and I am very proud of them all. A huge hug to Karen Dimmock for organising it all and for being so welcoming (and a nod and a wave to super soup maker Lindsay).

My final marks for the first two units I have done towards my BA are in....drum roll please....for my art assignments I received a Credit and for my essays I received a High Distinction :)
My two current units are drawing and textiles, due to migraines and some bad instructions I am a bit behind but slowly catching up, today I completed my "Molas"/reverse applique...here are the pieces I made.