Tag: Artist

Grey: Frosty Jupiter Dream scene

Art & Illustration

So I experimented last night I’ve been watching all these videos about acrylic pouring . I do like to see the finished results as these amazing sparkly Goldie blingy shiny paintings .

Doing an acrylic pour is one of the items on my activity wish list so I had a go and in this next series of five are the end results.

It’s not strictly an acrylic pour it’s a made up version. Normally a pour needs things like silicon and all kinds of bits added to make the the paint separate so that you get what they call cells.

So for the first one you can see in the next post that I added Environ face mask to it and I added a serum gel something I thought would be making the acrylic separation. But that didn’t work in the same way I would hope.

Instead what I do love is the smooth texture the my upcycled make up brushes make to the painting. Here I used the contour brush. I’m sure I would not be getting such a smoothly sumptuously painted surface if I used ordinary artists paint brushes.

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.