Pen and Ink on Texture

Hi:
I have completed a couple of new (and different) projects that I want to show you - both are done on 'textured' backgrounds, and I used pen and ink with oils to complete the pieces. The projects can be found in 'Trendy Textures', a book by Tracy Moreau and Doxie Keller. The book has some lovely projects in it, and, I believe all are painted on a textured surface. All the instructions in the book are for acrylic paints, but, since I am not an acrylic painter, I converted everything to pen and ink with oils. I did not have any trouble at all, and I am very happy with the results of both pieces.

This piece is called 'Chianti' and was designed by Tracy Moreau - since it was my first attempt using Texture Crackle, I applied the texture sparingly...next time I will use quite a bit more. The other 'new' products I worked with were Texture Glass and a Stencil. Absolutely everything on this piece was done with pen & ink and oils. If I were to do this project again the only change I would make would be to make my background behind the glass darker - so the white of the glass would stand out more. I had a lot of fun doing this piece.

This piece is called 'Karen's Orchids' and was designed by Tracy Moreau - this time I was not afraid to use the Texture Crackle and I applied lots - you can see from the picture that the background is quite a bit rougher than the above picture. I used oils for most of this pic, but I did cheat a little and basecoated the vase and strip down the right side with acrylic paint. The design on the front of the vase was done with a stencil and Texture Crackle, so it is raised - I really like this technique. The stenciling on the right hand strip is just flat.

I LOVE working with Texture and stencils, so, I will be posting more projects in the future.

My Art sessions start the week of September 19, so, by October I should have some wonderful new artwork to show you by the girls in the sessions.

I have added a new section to my blog called 'Artwork for Sale'. In this section art done by myself and some of the girls in my art sessions will be listed for sale. If you are interested in purchasing any of the art you can contact the artist to make arrangements. New art will be added on a regular basis, and once our fall art sessions get underway, I hope to be adding more artwork in that section.

Thanks for visiting my blog - please check back in a few weeks.

Joan

Weekly Art Sessions

Hi:

I hope everyone had a wonderful summer - I did, but, enough of the sun, eating, drinking, boating, etc......I am ready to grab my paint brush and get back to work. I am actually looking forward to getting into a rountine and working on some new projects.

Here are a few projects that were completed by the girls in the spring art sessions.

Meet Noella, Normand and Evelyn - Linda's cats. Linda used coloured pencils for this project, and it was done on 11x14 mi-teintes paper. She worked from individual photos of each cat. I think she did a remarkable job - everything about the cats, including the eyes, looks almost identical to the original photos.


This picture is lovely - don't know who the original artist was. Nancy used coloured pencils to complete this project, and she did a wonderful job - the folds in the dress and the skin tones turned out perfect, and I love the colour of the dress. This project was done on 11x14 mi-teintes paper.

Sue found a picture of this farm and decided to adapt it to coloured pencils. I don't know who the original artist was. It only took Sue a few hours to complete this and I think it turned out great. The colours she chose for everything are just perfect.

This is a picture of Linda's granddaughter, Marie Pier, and was taken from a photograph. Linda did this project in coloured pencil. The skin tones turned out great, as did the colours on the little jumpsuit and hat. I wondered how she was going to do the greenery and flowers (it is almost impossible with coloured pencils to put very light colours over dark) - but she managed to do a very good job!


That's it for now. I will be posting another blog within the next week or two with information about our fall art sessions, which start soon. I have also finished a couple of very interesting projects using texture, texture glass and stencils, which turned out great (at least, in my opinion, they did!!) - I will post them soon.

Thanks for visiting my blog and have a great day.

Joan