Fluid in the blue

 Good evening,

I thought I would share a few of my most recent creations with you. This time I went for a colour palette of blue, yellow, black and white for my paintings. All of these were layered the same way - white, yellow, black and blue, with 3 layers of each.

This first one was a dirty pour, where I just poured from the cup straight onto the canvas in a wavy line. Once the cup was empty I simply stretched the paints over the canvas. The ribboning created the interesting effects in the paint pattern.

This one was a flip cup. As can be seen the blue and the yellow larger mixed to give a central area that is a dark greenish-yellow with a blue tint. To me this one looks like an angler fish, with the areas where the blue has remained at the corners being the water it is swimming through. There is a beady yellow eye!

this final one is a tree ring pour - the first one that has created actual tree rings rather than a rose :D. I do love the effect that this one has produced, with some lovely knotted areas. To do this I did change direction of my circles a couple of times whilst pouring. It is also interesting how the blue is all on the one side and the black on the other.

I would like to enter these into:

Craftycatz #713 Anything goes

Do let me know what you see in the flip cup, and which one is your favourite of the three!

Hugz Tinz

Make it Masculine

 Hey guys,

We have a new challenge just started over at Creative Moments, with our optional theme for the month being Masculine. The lovely Alyce from Kit and Clowder has sponsored us this month (my emails were playing up and I got my class late, so watch out for that on the reminder post, 1st June). I used one of her older images for my first card.

I coloured this sweet little bear using a mixture of pencil crayons and alcohol markers. I am currently colouring the bear from the previous class, so do come and check out the reminder post on the 1st June!

I would like to enter this little bear into the following challenges:

ABCChristmas - J for Just enough/K for Knitwear (both themes)

TIOT - Keep it simple

ATSM #517 Christmas

PFP #837 Masculine

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Special Birthday Lilies

 Good evening,

Our new challenge has gone live today over at I Love Promarkers. Our optional theme is Special Occasion, and we are sponsored by the lovely Sheepski designs.

I coloured the image with Promarker pens, then die-cut the image using M&C stitched square nesting die. The same size die was used to cut a piece of patterned paper from a 3x3 paper stack from the Range. The smaller square was used to cut the music note paper in two squares. A larger square was used to cut the pink card mat. This was adhered to the blue base card and then diamantes and a peel-off '50' were added to finish.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - May Flowers

dragonflydreams - Use Die-cuts

SimonSaysWed - Use Craft Dies

Thanks for looking and do pop over to the challenge blog to see the rest of the DT creations.

Hugz Tinz

Open Cup - Galaxy

 Hi guys,

I have some more fluid art pictures to share with you today. I did another experiment using the same focal colours but with different base colours, with the open cup pour technique. This technique involves laying a base pillow down and placing some form of open container into this pillow. You then fill this container with your paints, slowly lifting occasionally to allow the paints to move out into the pillow (if your container is light enough the paints will move under it themselves without you having to lift the container. Once there is enough paint on the canvas, you lift your container. I lifted mine slightly off to the side to drag the paint and not leave a large splotch of one colour in the centre of the canvas.

The main paints used were Crawford and Black Deep Red, Mid Yellow and Ultramarine. Silicone oil was used in these primary colours only and not in te base colours. The first one is on a 12x9 inch canvas and used white as the base layer. The layering pattern was red-blue-base-yellow-red-base-blue-yellow-base-red-base-blue-base-yellow-base-red-base-red-blue-base-yellow-red-base-blue-yellow-base.

This has been named Galaxy in Pink, as for me it really looks like a galaxy! I did heat the canvas after stretching, which made the star-like cells throughout (which I am sad about - I personally preferred it before heating). I do really love this painting! I love how the primary colours have interacted so delicately and the white has stopped them from being too vibrant.

The second canvas was done with a black base on a slightly larger canvas. This time the layering was red-blue-base-yellow-red-base-blue-yellow-base-yellow-base-red-base-blue-base-yellow-base-yellow-blue-base-red-yellow-base-blue-red-base-yellow. This time the paints did not really come through the black paint, but stayed underneath, therefore heating was required to bring the colours through the base. Less black would have allowed the colours wo be more vivid. However, where the container was lifted has allowed the yellow to really pop against the black.

I have also done a video for this one to show the detail, as the light wasn't great.

The last canvas was a flat 10x10 inch canvas with Metallic Silver Atriste Paint as the base. This time the layering was slightly different - red-blue-yellow-red-silver-blue-yellow-red-blue-silver-yellow-silver-red-silver-blue-silver-yellow-silver. As the canvas was flat I needed less paint, so I made the layers slightly thicker and fewer.

For this one I again moved the container to the side while lifting to spread the paint colours. This was also heated, to keep the consistency between the paintings. The silver allowed much larger cells to form, but the layering caused the paints to become more muddied than in the previous canvases/ However, there is still some bright pops of the primary colours throughout the canvas. This one is my least favourite of the three if I am honest. I wish I had done the layering exactly the same way as the previous canvases.

I would like to enter these canvases into the following challenges:

Polkadoodles - C5, wk2, feminine

AYLI - brights or pastels - I think this set shows that it depends on the rest of the design - the pastels work really well for the first painting, but the black base would not have worked without the bright colour pops

Thanks for looking - and don't forget to say which is your favourite and why :)

Hugz Tinz

In remembrance of IkesArt

 Good evening,

We have announced our winners for the Bunnies and Blooms challenge over at Creative Moments, so do pop over to take a look. Our 'gone but not forgotten' theme is still going until the 14th, so if you have stash from artists that are either no longer with us, or just no longer produce, then share this with us in our current challenge.

Here is my DT reminder card for the challenge using an image from IkesArt.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

SimonSaysMonday - 4 legged friends

ATSM #516 Make your Mark

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Butterflies

 Well we are now in May - happy May Day! Our new challenge started today over at Moving Along with the Times, with the theme of  butterflies.

Here is my creation:

For this card I die-cut a butterfly from X-cut self-adhesive glitter paper. I then used metallic and translucent X-cut self-adhesive card/paper with the solid butterfly dies that were free with a magazine. To finish I used a fluid art dipped strip of card at the bottom and added a sentiment sticker onto this.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

SOS #572 Up, up and away (dies and papers from my stash)

AlphabetChallenge - A for Air

Thanks for taking the time to look at my creation.

Hugz Tinz