#ARTifacts - Collage/Mixed Media Art Journal Page

A collage/mixed media page from my #ARTifacts journal.
Keeping a monthly record of work & mediums used. Trying new things like rub on lettering,  crackle paste & a paint marker with stencils.
(raylee).

Change Can Be Good

 Layers of paint & texture in the beginning.....

 the morning sunlight shows all the texture on the canvas....but what I thought was a landscape just wasn't happening the way I thought it should......so I painted over the whole thing!

A few squirts with the spray bottle to get some runs.....

 The landscape is now in portrait mode......a very different picture emerging now....

a new subject, retaining all of the paint layers & textures.
'Orange Cardi' - not quiet discarded....yet.
( raylee ).

Where does the inspiration come from?

A collage acrylic on canvas that I had forgotten to post. Out of sight out of mind as they say. The little deer was from a magazine & the trees I cut from a piece of scrap wallpaper. The texture of the design on the wallpaper was very soft to the touch. The leafy patterns worked well for the trees. As usual I started with an idea which was to incorporate the colours from the floral fabric I had made slip covers from for the outside chairs.

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After a lot of experimenting with colours the painting became a lot more snowy but included all the colours from the fabric used on the chair covers.

The fabric is so different from the finished painting but started the process that created the snowy scene. In some of my first art classes many years ago we were given pictures to paint from, not to copy but to interpret in our own way. A valuable exercise that I use sometimes when I am not sure what I want to paint. (raylee).

Floral Horse - Mixed Media Art

a close up of the finished painting, the actual size is: 24"x24", or 60.9x60.9cm & how it looked in the beginning......

 

 ......floral collage on a gessoed canvas.......i used gel medium as glue......then used this  rose patterned block print  to apply the pink acrylic paint, when it was dry i put on another layer of acrylic in blue.

used charcoal to start the drawing over the collage & rose print....

 brought in colour with conte crayons.....

 ......started to blend & spread the colour with my fingers.....

........& continued with more layers & blending.....

.....then some more drawing over this to give some detail.

 the first photo (at the top) is the closest to the real colour of the painting......the last one was taken before i sprayed the finished painting with spray fixative.

the rose print  under the pastel crayon adds extra texture, & i have left a lot of the collage showing. i like to see the layers within the image.
thanks for coming to look at our blog......we hope you enjoy what you see.
(raylee).

Birds, Feathers, Mixed Media, Stitches.....365 Creative Challenge 2013.

another mixed week of creativity........experimenting with different media, eg: acrylic painted crumpled aluminium foil, just one of the techniques from the book"Surface Treatment workshop" by Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran Wilson.
feathers in watercolour, water soluble crayon & portfolio aqua sketch pencil.......
.....& over 100 cut & stitched hessian hearts!
(raylee).

Decorating in the Kitchen

sometimes you find the best surprises at the tip shop!!......these plates! 17 altogether & brand new! posing on the kitchen bench with a hanger in the background, made last year from old  fence  palings, embroidered doilies & really old biscuit cutters from the second hand markets......there are hooks on the bottom of the  hanger for tea towels or pot holders.

.....& the bread board painting....... i stuck two pieces of hessian webbing down the sides, just to see how it would look.

these two pieces seem to have been made for each other.........unintentionally.

(raylee).

Mixed Media Art

from here.........

....to here........
(bird & ribbon from " the graphics fairy" ).
(raylee).

Mixed Media Art

This artwork came about as i randomly  painted leftover acrylic paint onto an old  lead pencil drawing in a sketch book(you can see the lines of the pencil work) & stuck the still wet torn tissue paper from the palette on top of the paint........

 then a little bit of charcoal, & a bit of pink & blue pastel (cheeks & eyes).......a mat to define what was happening.......

 & a bit more blue pastel shading on the right eye.........a quick easy don't think about it too much painting. just do it & see what happens.

(raylee).

Mixed Media Art

 Hello all......how are you tonight? just thought i would show a little bit of what i have been doing today.....well i should say last night, i spread gesso over a red acrylic background on canvas with a scraper, left it to dry over night. i left some areas so the red would show through, scraped some of the gesso to make it thinner & moved it around to make some random texture. in other words played with it!

this morning i made a thin mix using  a cool yellow acrylic with some gel medium & water & painted this over the gesso,

 next i used a paper napkin to blot some of the paint while it was still wet. then i did the same again with a warm yellow etc., but this time i used more gel medium to make some more texture. when this was partly dry i did the same again with a cool red & a warm red.while it was still wet i made a runny mix of paint, gel medium & water applied it at the edges of the canvas, one at a time, & tilted the canvas to make it run from side to side. this made the grid like pattern. while the gel medium was still wet i made circular patterns by pressing various plastic  lids into it, & scraping out some of the gel with a teaspoon. i hadn't planned the teaspoon bit, but started doodling with it while talking to my sister on the phone this afternoon. i don't know where this is going yet, tomorrow is another day.......full of possibilities. what's been keeping you busy lately? (raylee).

Mixed Media Art

From the beginning to the end..........gesso on canvas with a scraper.....watery acrylic paint.....

 paint splatters, more watery paint runs.......paper dress pattern.........block printed ink stamps.....

painted papers applied with gel medium.....

 more paint mixed with gesso......the shapes made with bottle caps  pressed into gel medium showing through now....

 start the painting......sandpaper over some of the ridges.....

 add some oil pastels......paint over them.....rub over with sandpaper again.....

 a closer look.....

 some of what i used to create this painting......what a marathon!

(raylee).