Month: Jun 2018

Blue and green 3D subconscious painting that never should have been seen or heard

Art & Illustration

Surprisingly I painted this one while on the phone to my friend Frances. We were gossiping away and I had her on speakerphone and my hands started drifting over to the paints and brushes. While painting I didn’t want her to know that I was distracted so I was keeping my efforts quiet (but that wasn’t hard to do).

I was surprised that by the end of our conversation I had finished two paintings. The other one is in the next post. When I told her what I had done, she said oh you were multitasking.  I later realized I was doing a subconscious painting  

I also read that this process is called automatism I was painting using intuition and not letting my conscious thoughts about colour and form get in the way too much. Which is why  I was surprised that I did put blue and green together. I saw how the forms of flowers and a definite landscape are starting to came together easily too, which challenged me as I always thought I was better at abstract. I never really wanted to paint flowers, meadows and sky, but that’s what came out when I wasn’t thinking to much about what I was doing. Interesting…

I also, in that stroke of madness cut open a lavender pillow (that I had made for my Etsy shop) and sprinkled the dried lavender content where my subconscious thought it was necessary to be on the painting.

I’m rather pleased with the finished product. It has a 3D side to it and smells of rose petals and lavender as well as looking pretty enough to adorn a cushion pad for a grand conservatory.

I’m starting to think about turning my paintings into home decor items. So a couple days after I finished this I was road testing how this image of flowers and some collected in a golden vessel would feel as a statement cushion cover.

 

Gone but not forgotten: Yellow blue acrylic abstract landscape mistake

Art & Illustration

I did this painting stopped, loved it.  took a picture, but sadly it no longer exists. Only in digital form as below.

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Why?

The problem is I then started adding to it. I added a bit of black there and a touch of orange here and I suddenly grew to hate it. I created an ugly monster by adding too much and remember my designer friends always saying less is more.

So infuriated was I, I then decided to start again on the same page. So I covered the whole page in white started again and the next blog post will show what happened after I turned the monster into a charming pink acrylic art piece.

 

Blue Planet Saver Idea: Using ESPA Optimal Skin Pro cleanser granules in teal, gold and black acrylic abstract painting

Behind the Scenes

So I experimented with recycling some old ESPA Optimal skin pro cleanser as a textured base to this painting. It makes it smell of bergamot or something citrus-y.  Wow this has a beautiful fragrance as well as a being a nice looking art work. It also has a touch of Very Berry lip gloss by Jane Iredale in the chocoholic’s range to lend a bit of pigment depth mid range of the painting.

After finishing I stood back and thought how ironic that the optimal skin exfoliate gel mixes interestingly with the acrylic paints helping to add to the painting’s watery feel.

When using it I first thought I was saving the planet (the seas and protecting the lovely marine life- inspired by Blue Planet TV Show) from the scrubs little microscopic balls. Then I remembered that the miniature balls in this skin exfoliation product actually dissolves when worked around and rubbed into skin, they break down because they are soy oil balls.

So the discovery of the virtues of the Espa Pro Cleansing medium means that this skin scrub will come off my up-cycling/ recycling shelf and go back into my bathroom.

However I’m keeping my eyes open for those other offending micro beaded face scrubs. Why? Well because I need them to add to the texture of my future paintings while I do my bit in saving our beautiful blue planet.

On a final note I like how the blue skye in the painting is close in tone to the deep blue of our planet that we all love so much.

Chili pepper lip-gloss pink helps create a black smokey river acrylic painting

Behind the Scenes

This abstract painting I created using a bit of old Jane Irridale lip-gloss as they have great pigments (not a lot of people know that). I love the colours in this one. I worked hard to get the right balance of textures, colours and a bit of gold bling.

The tools I used include pallet knife and surprisingly found that a lip brush as well as eye shadow fan brush was great for blending lines in. How intriguing that the Jane Iridale Chocoholics pack Chilli pepper pinky pigment lip gloss actualy adds some striking depth to the painting and helps to make this dark foreboding river  scene look a bit more appealing.

My new tools are very fitting for the new paint mediums I’m using.  I’m so glad I’ve found a way to upcycle old cosmetics as well as find a new use for the tools of my old very distant trade.