My Colours

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:48:00 +0000

Some of my favourite paintings. Is there a recurring theme?

Mosaic Monday - Happy Valentines!

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:58:00 +0000

1. sweet love 5x5, 2. Red Sugar Flowers, 3. Illustration Friday - Celebrate, 4. sweet heart..., 5. ATC - Door to my heart {traded}, 6. hearts..., 7. tangled web of love1, 8. Love Lines ACEO Collage, 9. Heart locket necklace, 10. Little tweeters, 11. http://flickr.com/photos/41795916@N00/3679339013/, 12. Heart on stone, 13. sweet love 5x514. Not available15. Not available16. Not available

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New Paintings - Negative Painting & Frisk Film

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:33:00 +0000

Negative Painting - Bee on salvia

Painted from Sarah M's lovely photo: www.flickr.com/photos/daftdabbler/2127038309/
From the group 'Artists Sharing Photo References' : www.flickr.com/groups/aspr/

I haven't tried this sort of thing before, so the background went a bit wrong. And I didn't know what I was doing with the negative painting, so I didn't really manage it. I quite like the richness of the colours tho - I'll just have to try again!

To see some fantastic negative painting, and a great tutorial have a look at Beverly Morgan's Flickr stream. Here is a link to 'Step 1' of her tutorial: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bevmor/4291143834/

And here is an example of one of her beautiful negative paintings, "We follow the Sun":

Frisk masking Film - Painted lady

I painted this background right after painting the Bee background, so at least I knew to work fast and not let parts dry. What I hadn't quite realised, was that I didn't need to put down such strong colours. I think I was just panicking in my rush to get paint down before the paper dried!

This was also my first experiment with 'Frisk' masking film. I can't believe how easy to use and brilliant it is! By the time I'd stuck it down, drawn round my drawing, unpealed it, stuck it back to the backing paper, cut out the shapes and stuck it back on the paper, it was really not sticking at all. But when I painted the edges down with water and then paint the film stayed magically in place! Now that I've got a better idea of how to use it, I won't do that sticking, unsticking thing again and I guess it will be even easier!

I'm not sure if it's worth trying to darken or lighten the background. Or if I should just learn from the mistake and have another go...

Painted from my photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/franny_b/3859767453/in/set-72157623158286092/