I Spy With My Little Eye- BeeArty DT inspiration

 

 Hi, everyone. I have been having fun with the new fluoro colours and incorporated my love of journaling with my other love of art on canvas. For today's blog post I'd like to share my process of my latest canvas art 'I Spy With My Little Eye'.

Products used:

A4 black canvas

White A4 card stock

Fluoro colours- Green, Orange, Pink, Yellow

Modeling paste 

A range of Colour Blast stencils- 'Boxed in'. 'Free Hand', 'Lined',

Stamps: 'Making Tracks' and past stamps including an eye and script stamp

Black and white gesso

Black Archival ink

Drawing ink black and white

Tissue paper or paper dress making pattern

Gel medium- as a glue

Arrows and phrase from kits. 

 

Step1- I drew and then cut out sections from the white A4 to make a template/stencil.

Step 2- I smeared white Gesso using a spatula over 3 of the outer sections, then I mixed the Fluoro yellow with some white gesso and smeared the mixture over the remaining outer sections carefully ensuring a straight edge was made. I smeared a small amount of the yellow mix onto the white sections to connect the areas. 

Step 3- I made a mix of the Fluoro Orange and white gesso to partially fill the rectangle left in the centre, I smeared some orange into the other sections to connect them to the centre colour palette.

Step 4- Using the old dress makers pattern I stamped 2 images of the Eye stamp with Black Archival ink 

- I tore around the stamped images,…. images blend better without straight edges…
 

Using the gel medium as a glue I coated the backs of the images and glued them onto the canvas.

Step 5: I added layers of different coloured shapes using black gesso and continued to add further layers with a variety of stencils, stamps and drawing ink.

I also added colour using the fluoro powders to the eyes adding a very small amount of water to the powder (a drop) to ensure depth of colour. 

 

 

Step 7- I added the final layer that included a Phrase ‘ I spy with this little eye” which I double backed to make it stand out, and some arrows I painted with fluoro paint.

 

 

Here are some closeups for you to see:

 

 

Thanks for joining me and I hope I inspired you to check out the great products and art supplies at beearty.com.au . You can find more inspiration and links on BeeArty's facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BeeArtyHive

 

Life is all about Making Memories: Grateful Heart Kit by BeeArty

 Hi everyone, I am loving creating with Bee Arty's December kit 'Grateful Heart' designed by the amazing Michelle Grant and I thought I'd share an inspiration piece I made using some of this kit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1. Firstly I cut out a large rectangular of black card stock.

 

 Step 2. Placing some Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso onto my working mat I used a roller to spread it out evenly. I positioned the black tag over the gesso and pressed it down and lifted it off slowly. After letting it dry, I cut the corners to make a tag and punch a small hole for the string to be added later.

 

 

 

Step 3.  I used my Big Shot die cut machine to cut out a few black and white leaves and string leaves from black and white cardstock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4. Colour Blast Olive Mica powder with a little water was perfect to sponge some colour over the lined stencil, adding some of the colour in a variety of spots on the gessoed black tag, as well as using a brush to add some colour to the kits chipboard leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5. I then began layering the die cuts, flattened straw cut in 2 and a few different flowers and leaves. After positioning all the pieces the way I wanted, I began to glue them in place, adding some of the pearls into the flower centre to soften the look and add depth to the tag.

 

Step 6. To complete the tag I added some words which I edged with black ink and some string in the top of the tag.

 

 

 

Closeup:

 Thanks for joining me and I hope I inspired you to check out this amazing kit and others at beearty.com.au . You can find more inspiration and links on BeeArty's facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BeeArtyHive 

'Just Leap' for BeeArty

'Just Leap' by Sandi Spink

Hi everyone, I'm very excited to be joining the BeeArty DT team and share my first inspiration project a canvas I created with Colour Artist Ink and some of this months club kit 'Fearless, Brave and Free' by Fiona Paltridge.

Using a 20cm square canvas I used Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso to seal the canvas surface.

After drying the gesso with a heat gun I placed small amounts of the Artist Inks onto my work mat and used a brush to apply the ink to variety of sections of the canvas to areas that I had sprayed lightly with water. A spatula is great to smear White Heavy Gesso over a BeeArty stencil, which when dry I sprinkled Mica Powders over the raised surface and then sprayed it with a fine spray mist of water to disperse the colour.

The die cuts and stamped images I placed on the canvas were painted with the inks diluted to provide watercolour style and undiluted for colour depth and strength.  The papers and titles available from Bee Arty papers provide amazing diverity in what you can fussy or messy cut out and arrange in varies ways and gave me lots of opportunities to layers for a great effect. To finish the canvas I used cotton, silver element and doodling with a fine tip pen.

Hope you enjoyed hearing about my new creations using the BeeArty products and I have inspired you to try the products and papers too.

See you again soon.

Check out the amazing products at

https://beearty.com.au

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