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From experienced artists to beginners the Inspired by Nature – Exploring Mixed Media course will show you ways to live a truly creative life!
Hello Dear Friends! My super talented Brand Ambassadors have a very special treat for you today - again! :) April is the Stress Awareness Month and this theme provoked some really touching stories from our Artists - raw and honest both in their artmaking and sharing their personal views. I'm truly blessed to be cooperating with these exceptional ladies... How can art be a way to deal with various difficult situations in our lives? Do you ever create when you need healing or having an outlet to your emotions? How can you use art to unwind, get grounded and reconnect with yourself? You'll love our Aritsts' beautiful 'gallery' of Art and Soul! * GAYLE * Stress and anxiety are a part of everyone’s life to a lesser or greater degree. Managing it can be tricky, and many things can help, ranging from how much sleep we have, what we eat, exercise, meditation and the list can go on. Art, or some form of creative activity, is for me a huge help in managing stress. In particular I love the process of collage. Sometimes all I need to do is look at my stash of coloured and patterned papers; to pick them up, admire them, sort them and be inspired by them. :) The actual process of collage making I find to be very relaxing and therapeutic. Choosing, cutting, arranging, glueing, and smoothing out paper can be quite a meditative process and a definite de-stresser. Choosing papers with images, colours and patterns that “talk to you”, that you just love, and collaging them into a journal without even having a plan or any kind story in mind can be very relaxing as well as distracting you from anxious or stressful thoughts. In this collage I have used some of my favourite patterned papers, tissue, paper napkins, gift wrap and Japanese paper. More pattern has been added with Finnabair's stamps and stencils (some old favourites of mine) using 3D Gel and the new Plaster Paste. * LOUISE * Creativity has always been an outlet for me for a variety of reasons, right from when I was very young. I have very strong childhood memories of badly wanting to be able to draw and paint like my artistic mother, to try gain her favour and love. Then when I was in school it became a way of me being accepted and liked. As the 'fat kid' in school it was hard to be accepted and recognised for something other than being fat. Creativity gave me a voice and an identity that wasn't one that brought me shame and pain. As I got older and started working, I lost touch with my creative self. I became passionate about my career, so much so that I became completely overwhelmed and totally stressed. A chance invitation by a work colleague to join her and her friends for a scrapbooking day led to me eventually changing my perspective on life and seeking relief from the stress of my work. One thing lead to another and now I have embraced a life and lifestyle that allows me to embrace my creative passions. I now invest the same love and passion I had for my career into my art. My Art is my Voice. My Voice is my Art. I am my Art. My Art is Me. One final word; my painting features a word which has meaning for me. Meraki - (v.) to do something with Soul, creativity, or love; to put something of yourself in your work. * RIIKKA * Creating is my outlet. If I'm really stressed, I just need to put my fingers to paints and I immediately feel better. Creating is my escape to another world, a balancing act from everyday and all the 'musts' and 'to dos'. Also if I'm sad or angry, my first go to is talking to my husband but after that, I start a project. If something even comes from it as it's usually just playing with mediums, I never share it. That project is done totally for me. For this post we were asked to create something uplifting. The idea of this project came from a couple of things. The first was the "Art Jar" - an online event from sweet Eliza. I've not done the workshop but the idea of an inspiring jar captivated me. It's like a cabinet of curiosities in miniature form! The other inspiration was the song from Sound of Music about favorite things. I started thinking that if you are really sad or need uplifting a one time thing might not do the trick. But if you can have an uplifting thought or some reminder that there's a reason to be happy, it might help. Like the little things mentioned in the song. So I gathered some inspiring quotes from the web and made them into a pdf (feel free to use!) which I then cut to strips and added to an altered Melange Pebble jar. That way you can grab a little bit of sunshine whenever in need! :) * KASSA * The healing role of art is very close to my heart and it's something I only discovered last year when my lovely Leonberger boy Leo passed suddenly and threw my whole world upside down... I felt I couldn't breathe, he'd left a big hole in my heart that I did not know how to fill. Not long after I had a project to do up over here on Finnabair's blog and I thank my lucky stars for that because it literally forced me to put paint to paper and YES I lost myself and my sadness for a few hours... Once I'd finished my artwork, my soul was smiling, my soul poured onto the page, my hands an extension of my heart... In this piece I was at the start of a happy day, hence the sunny, happy colors, then unexpectedly someone unintentionally upset me to tears (I'm a sensitive chick). In the past |I would have found a quiet place to lick my wounds, now I carry on making art and throw my emotions onto the page... You can probably see the clouds covering my rainbow of Impasto paints, the flashes of white splatters where I'm reasoning and balancing things in my head, then there's the black confused dusty blurs and my favourite bold black 'slashes' - that's me getting cross with myself for letting myself down and being too sensitive... I throw a few splats of neon at it and scribble some crazy Gelato color to keep the black slashes at bay.... I win! I feel better so I write a few words with a marker pen over the page of my gratitude for this time to heal... to feel better... and I really do love everything about these emotional pages, they speak volumes to me... I trust in my hands that are an extension of my heart to paint... I am so grateful for that! * * * * Let's all feel inspired by today's post and - Happy Creating Everybody! :) Love what you make and use all the wonderful tools and media to express yourselves, especially when you feel blue or stressed - Art is the way! :) Finn & The Team
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Moroccan artist Monia Touiss shares her time between Morocco and Spain in order to experience the journey, and the convergence, with an intellectual and artistic depth evident in her recent works. Enamoured of this symbolic journey between two similar cultures, she has striven to capture the experience in her art from a personal perspective and with a feminine touch apparent in her deluge of colour. Relying on the transparency of colour built on intersection, convergence and intermingling, Touiss’s colours capture the radiance of the Mediterranean. Her work is a conscious forging of the peculiarities of the space and the exposure of an open and multi-faceted identity.
For today’s abstract art journal page I am working mostly with Derwent Inktense Blocks. I asked you guys over on my Instagram stories to pick a color scheme and this is what I am going to use…
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Hi Everyone I hope that you all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year and are looking forward to all that 2018 has on offer. Like everyone I am looking forward to another creative year especially to see all the new products coming our way that we will all just need so much. Having said that I have many favourite stamps from days gone by and none more than 'Lonely Girl' by Dina Wakley, which started my Dina Wakley collection off. So I start the year using something old and have had a quick play creating a tag. Quick background using Dina's paints watered down, Lonely Girl stamp and some from some of Dina's other stamp sets, the hearts I have machined stitched onto the tag. My art is a big chunk of my life and remains my perfect way to unwind and that won't change for 2018 even though I might take it in new directions. Here's to an arty filled year to you all Thanks for stopping by Love Amanda X
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Hello you all! I have a double spread to share today in the Dina Wakley Media Journal. I used the kraft paper pages together with some collaging and stamps from Rubber Dance (stamp sets are listed at the end of this post). Enjoy the video: Thank you for stopping by today! Rubber Dance Stamps:
Take a break. Take a moment. Immerse yourself in this beautiful world of poetry created by Agnieszka Anna. Hello. Today, I'd like to present a dress that was inspired by poetry of a Polish poet, Rafał Wojaczek. Technically, this piece was very easy to make. My base for the dress is a paper mache shape formed on a Barbie doll. I used pieces of a newspaper soaked in glue to create the skirt. After the glue dried, I used gesso applied with a soft brush to fix the whole dress. When it dried and the dress was hard, I painted it with acrylic paints. Finally, I added some frills and some glimmer with this mist. For the background, I applied a thick layer of gesso on a piece of cardboard and stamped this circle shape into the gesso. When dry, I painted the background with the same paints I used for the dress. The little houses I placed on my dress I created out of thick cardboard. I glued pieces of newspaper onto them, then added some touches of white acrylic paint and distressed them with distress inks. Finally, I glued the dress onto the background with the magic glue. I hope you like my dress. Creating it was really that complicated, maybe you will give it a try and create your own? Supplies from Mixed Media Place:
A collaborative challenge with Jill Foster combining rubber stamping and mixed media art. To read more about this project, please visit: elizabethallan-blog.blogspot.com/2012/10/mixed-media-mash... Thank you for viewing!
Hello Sweeties, Today I'm up on Lindy's Gang blog with a new project, the Flaming Heart. One of my friends give a small pallet and I used it as the base for
Bonjour, voici un grand canvas 35X27 cm avec pour base de fond des papiers 7 dots studio, la collection "dreamer" de Finnabair que j'ai retravaillé et je me suis éclatée et évidemment je me suis beaucoup inspirée de ses divers réas : Lumière artificielle et lumière naturelle Et les gros plans : collages image de pub de magazine (j'ai fait le plein, ces derniers temps j'ai passé tellement de temps dans les salles d'attente de l'hôpital que j'ai de quoi faire quelques canvas !), gaze, dentelle, napperon, pschittage aux glimmer mist, peinture acrylique or, patine or texture au gel médium... Les photos ne rendent pas compte de la luminosité de l'ensemble. Merci pour vos visites à +, bisous, Val
