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).

Messy Work Table......Still...

hello, long time no see......been keeping up with the " 365 creative challenge" , school holidays, & the usual day to day stuff........what have you been doing?

 this is my messy work table, i have moved outside now that the weather is so warm. i have more room to set up the big easel.......so hope to get some bigger pieces happening.

remember i started this collage on a painted canvas?....... & then tried some image transfers, & then added more collage & printed acrylic roses over the collage & wasn't sure where it was going........well i do now. 

it's a horse(detail), drawn with charcoal & pastel over the top of the previous layers.(this is how it looked before, photo below).

i don't know exactly how it happened, but i like it.......what do you think?

nice to see so many people visiting our blog.......thank you!
(raylee).

2013 ....365 Challenge

showing  some  more pages from my altered book project........do something creative every day in 2013!!

(raylee).

Sketch Book Challenges

Catching up with my sketch book challenges again.......the first one is for august, the prompt was "shelter". a quick sketch of two umbrellas in white pastel & black crayon over an old blue & black acrylic painting on  textured  watercolour paper. 
 the title for september is "patterns". these pages are acrylic on a collage of used window envelopes,used office papers stamped with round plastic lids to make circles, crayon & pitt pen drawing,  stenciled with plastic packaging (the little yellow rectangular  shapes) & old stick on dots that have lost their sticky stuff, stuck on with impasto gel & then glued into my sketch book. i think re- using all of these materials has worked well for this exercise, a lot of paper comes into the office, i just save a bit of it from going into the recycle bin by using it in art work. (raylee).

Sketch Book Challenge-May

 I have cheated this month with the "fruit & vegetable" challenge , but these works are all my own.

 Acrylic on canvas............onions & apples....

 Apples, pears,orange & avocado......watercolour & pencil on paper.........

Orange on wood block......... watercolour pencil & pastel on paper. (raylee).

Pastel Work In Progress

Experimenting with pastels on a green background. Green scares me...... so I'm pushing myself to try something different.......haven't used pastels much either........ i like the drawing aspect of the pastels. For the initial drawing i used a thin charcoal stick. (raylee).