Showing posts with label Painting with Natasha White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting with Natasha White. Show all posts

Monday, 30 January 2012

Lots of layers mean lots of pics :D

Today's theme at The Butterfly Effect is "Making Layers" hosted by the awesomely talented Diane :D
I am also going to incorporate a few ideas I stole from watching Natasha White's live class yesterday on intuitive/tribal painting.
Lot's of pics for this one, so am going to do this post as a list :D

Layer #1 White gesso to key base page

Layer#2 spritzers and stencils
Layer#3 more spritzers with templates(forgot to rotate)
Layer#4 (forgot yo rotate this one too) acrylic paint through stencils
Layer#5 Pink acrylic scrubbed on and through stencil
Layer#6 highlight with Stabilo All pencil
Layer#7 (cheated by cutting out a previous portrait) glued on Portrait
Layer#8 Added hand print with white acrylic(one of Natasha's ideas)
Layer#9 (was going to do lino print but couldn't find lino :S) Scratched all seeing eye into wet paint using black acrylic and tip of brush handle(another one of Natasha's)
Layer#10 Built up pink layer around portrait
I'm not calling this page finished, as I just remembered I was going to add something lol....I get so bored waiting for stuff to dry I forget what I was doing (bad Gina)

Off now to research France for Darcy's Postcard challenge :D XXX
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Friday, 18 November 2011

Her masters voice!

EDIT: My dry pic stitched into altered book with black 3mm ribbon :D

Today I have tried another of the FREE classes at Flutterbye .ning :D
This one is with Natasha, who is painting a simple portrait of her cat to add to her altered book. I have a dog...so I copied the style but replaced cat with soppy dog :D
Quick sketch onto gessoed card...
Add main body colour...
built up a bit of background...
added a bit more detail...
and a little more...
and finally some texture(scratching into wet paint, stencil clock faces,dabbing with mucky baby wipe), and shadow(not poop) where she is sitting :D...
just waiting by the front door for hubby to come in :D
I haven't put too much detailed work(door furniture etc) in the background because the dog(Meg) is the focus, and when it is dry I have to stitch it into my book!!!

The door is an irrelevance to Meg, it's what she can hear on the other side that is important to her!

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