Texture and colour play

 A few people have asked for a tutorial on how to achieve the texture and colour pieces i make. To be honest, i vary it a lot but here is how i made the latest one

I  started with a piece of card which i added some stick on paper ribbon down the side the colours dont matter. I then wanted to get some texture and in this case i used woodware fluffy stuff (again the colour doesnt matter much as it will be covered later. I spread the fluffy stuff in random patterns on the card then used a heat gun to dry and fluffy it up as the heat makes it go all puffy and bubbly.

Next i wanted colour. You can use acrylics,inks etc for colouring. I used silver ink which i applied with a paintbrush. (wash the paintbrush immediately after using it )

When dry you can add another ink if you wish or many. I used another pearly ink in blue and then i used some adirondack alcohol ink in wild plum. i applies some in spots and some with the application tool and felt pad.

This was how it turned out (click on pic to see more detail ) but i sometimes use acrylic paint instead of inks to colour. I just love experimenting

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Two new from me

This one is pastels,stamps and ink plus collage images fro wednesday stamper challenge




















This one is an encaustic work which i did in gold and silver wax and added daisies

Theme Thursday Dance

Thought this might work for the theme at theme thursday which is Dance

Its a very complicated mixed media background with all kinds of materials and techniques used but a simple cheeky dancer just seemed perfect to celebrate all that colour lol

second post today

Just was in the mood to play digitally so wanted to share this one before i forget where i file it hehehe
second post today ... must have too much time on my hands

Eraser and pastel accident

Its been a crazy last week and had my sons 30th birthday plus a charity run with santa and his sleigh. Today there were no demands on me and i was able to finish these two things i have been working on.
One is just a basic pastel scene of a walker on a beach
the other is a technique i found by playing with the eraser on my pencil while deciding what to do with the colourful pastel background i had made. I thought it would be fun to use the eraser on the pen as my drawing tool and this guy was created

Also for the digital challenge at artarazzi i made this one