Intention

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 ).

Image transfer/mixed media

"This is what she wrote......"

 Image transfer on old book page with gesso undercoat & cobalt blue acrylic around the edge of the pages.
I found this image a long time ago in a National Geographic magazine.
When I paint I brush excess paint onto old book pages etc. As I did this I noticed the words " this is what she wrote" at the top of the right hand page....this page just so happened to be the one I had chosen for this image transfer........so this was my inspiration for this artwork.

Drawing over a dry watery coat of burnt sienna with pen, added some colour to the drawing with watercolour pencils.

 Collaged a paper border with printed handwriting on it onto the canvas board.

 Then added the book page with gel medium. When it was dry I added the corner collage pieces.

  Last of all crayon which I smudged with my fingers to soften the overall appearance of this picture.

(raylee).

Art today....texture & layers of paint

On my work table......mark making, paint layers, creating texture with palette knife, stencils, stamps (from recycled found bits & pieces) & impasto gel with acrylic on canvas.
(raylee).

Suitcase Art

 1. Gesso

 2. Naples Yellow Acrylic

 3. Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna

4. Trial & error with the composition

5. Add the Blues - Ultramarine & Cobalt with White

(raylee). www.facebook.com/RayleeSyrchArt

Faux Rust Butterflies....Mixed Media

 Faux rust butterfly 40 x 40 cm.

Faux rust butterflies on fridge, 10 x 10 cm.
(raylee).

Fabric for Chairs

Poor tired old chairs...

fabric worn through...

foam stuffing getting picked at by littlies...

dig out the old pale jeans...

chop off the seams...and maybe they fit...

stitch them in place...

and a denim flower now adorns the worn...

then there are the dining chairs..

old patchwork chair covers cut..

and stapled to the straight...

a new life from the old...

Rusty Butterflies

 The butterfly shapes were cut from old watercolours, the canvas boards had collage & ribbon on them, then repainted with a fairly dry brush, & rusty nail & old wire to make the butterfly bodies.

Rusty  butterflies on canvas boards, 4" x 4", 10cm x 10cm.

Mixing Faux Rust technique ( find this technique at thicketworks ) with real rusty nail & wire to make the butterflies, then attached to repainted canvas boards.
(raylee).

Faux Rust Effect

 A very easy tutorial for this Faux Rust Effect can be found at thicketworks.

 This is my first attempt.......I started with a gesso undercoat on the paper/cardboard figure. Let this dry.

 Next I mixed Prussian Blue & Burnt Sienna acrylic to make a black & covered the figure.

 Tore pieces of paper napkin & stuck these on with heavy gel medium,

 Next I placed Burnt Sienna acrylic randomly, sprinkled cinnamon over the wet paint & pressed it in with my fingers.

 With a stiff dry brush I removed the excess cinnamon.

The big patch in this photo shows where I put gel medium on top of the Burnt Sienna & sprinkled cinnamon over it & again pressed it into the gel, this added more texture.
I like this effect, with some more experimenting this could become a favourite......many surfaces could become Rusty!
Thanks to Heather from thicketworks. A comprehensive  tutorial can be found on her blog.
(raylee).

Choices

Could have cleaned the fridge...... Chose to try out soft drawing pencils & crayons  in Moleskine art journal. The pencils are intended for land & seascapes, after doing a scribble test of the colours drawing  a face became more interesting to me. Mixed some crayon into the mix with lots of finger smudging to soften the colours. 

"Motion Drawings"......a bit of boredom busting while traveling in the car (as a passenger), Artline 200 pen on scrap of old book page. Holding the pen loosely allowing the bumps to contribute to the drawing lines.
(raylee).