Tag: Abstract

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.

Root chakra auras: Copper, grey, green, red acrylic fantasy landscape abstract:

Art & Illustration

One for you to interpret. I was at first lost for words. Initially  I liked the combination of reds greens, yellows and grey. Then I decided it looks like a cluster of spirited trees beside a lake.

The trees look like they are giving off their warm aura and in this fantasy landscape it is very possible that their aura is visible. In eastern medicine, the colour of the root chakra is red -Chakra – Muladhara and that is about safety, survival, grounding. According to http://www.chakras.info/chakra-colors/

How nicely surprising that my fantasy landscape lake trees are grounding or at least signify being grounded.

Dark grey, lime, turquoise fantasy landscape acrylic painting

Art & Illustration

Continuing my experiments with a painted grey background this fantasy landscape. I have no other words for it except that the marks are mesmerizing remind me of fine gold jewel like trees and a turquoise blue martian (perhaps) moon.

When looking at this its surprisingly easy to bring more images to from your imagination as you try to fathom out the landscape that might exist in the hinterland.

 

I feel I’m getting better at adding vertical and horizontal lines which is a real departure from the usual sweep curves across the page.

Grey rose gold in fantasy acrylic landscape painting

Art & Illustration

I’m calling this collection the fantasy acrylic landscape.

From an overnight thought of contemplating what painting would I have if I had a metal tarrarium and industrial chic furniture with rose gold metal legs.

So I created a collection of seven pieces within this theme. I was surprised to see how each piece appears to fit together nicely. Bit like the kind of wallpaper you’d see on 60 minute makeover.