I’m actually posting art tonight! HOLY CRAP COW! So I have been working on a ton of stuff lately. All super-secret gifts of course. Driving me mad. *I* do so love seeing my child’s face, but I’m thinking it might be growing thin for some of my readership. Well, suck it up, here comes some more….
Okay, so one of the techniques I learned at inspired was photo transfer. with tape. with paint. with gelatinous medium (alas, I do not have an ink jet printer!) it’s all fabulous. I have been LOVING it. Been driving my family nuts. Packing-tape-photo-transfers glued taped all over my house. “Oh, wouldn’t this look lovely on the refrigerator?” (We have a black frig — you can’t see it!) I can fix that, I’ll stick one on my mum’s. And about every other page in my journal. And on my notebooks at work. And on the super-secret-surprise gifts. And up on my cubby wall at work… Anyway, you see what’s happening. It’s kind of obnoxious. Well, here I go again. Started playing around with the paint transfer and did one on plastic. LOVE IT! Not sure how good it looks in the scan, but posting here anyway. So even though this is an art post, you STILL have to check out my kid. Had to blur the other kid’s face just in case you were wondering what was going on there.
If you know me at all, you know I’m all about distressed, grungy, dirty lookin’, ol’ piece of….well, I think this is just perfect! Again, this is on clear plastic so you don’t quite get it on the scan, but use your imagination a little. I think this technique is especially good for sports stuff. I like it a little raw. And the details don’t matter so much for the most part. If you are going to take my class at The Paper Tree in May, PLEASE invest in some cruddy paper. I have a lot of really nice printing paper at the house and I basically have no fingerprints left to speak of. I’ve rubbed them off completely.
Alright, other half project I can post tonight is another piece of cork. I liked the texture, but it was hard to work on. Right after inspired I painted a piece of cork with acrylic paint and have YET to finish it, but here’s a little corner. The colored pencil works MUCH better on acrylic painted surface. I also used water colors over the acrylics.
So sometime later this week/early next week I promise to have a challenge/work your art up. Since I’ve been so INCREDIBLY good about posting ideas, I’ve decided to just steal someone else’s. And now I’m off to bed. Sweet dreams jelly beans! (for those of you with small children….do you ever realize you talk like your five year old? It’s really embarrassing when you ask someone to please excuse you to go to the potty!)
