My favorite art supply...

To day I went shopping. I did need to buy some more ink.

In Iceland there is only one shop that sells Daler Rowney ink.

I love working with the ink, the colors are so bright and beautiful.

I did have only 5 colors and to day I bought 5 more.

So now I have 10 and cant waiting to start painting.

The paint I'm in love with is Golden.

There is something about Golden Paint that makes it better than any other paint.

But they don't sell Golden in Iceland so last month when I was in the US I bought me some bottles of Golden fluid paint. Before my daughter did buy one and one color for me and brought to me when she came for visit. I cant order it, they don't send to Iceland.

 My brayer is my favorite tool, a little touch with the Brayer and I'm done.

I have some favorite stencils too. Most of them I buy online. I want to make some know I can, just waiting for the right time to find out where I can get them made after my design.

I have another favorite ink, that's ink in spray bottle, Dylissions ink by Ranger. Beautiful colors.

And of course I have a favorite paper. Dayler Rowne cold pressed watercolor paper 300 gr. I love the little rough look when painting on this paper. Sometimes I buy hot pressed paper but that's when Im going to make something very fine like my Guardian Angels.

There are many other supplies I love but these are my favorite.

Hope you liked my list.

It would be fun if you would leave me a message telling me what is your favorite art supplies.

Have a great weekend

Namaste

Orange, orange, blue

Summer of color

Week 6

This week we are going to use orange, orange, blue.

I like these colors together

Here you can see my profile photo, here I'm using these colors

I was not in a mood to paint tonight but I did.

 Last week I was working on a project I cant tell you about yet so I did not

 have time to make any painting for Summer of colors.

Here you can see my painting for this week

A fish, a simple fish in orange, orange blue

Have a nice week

Namaste

Two exhibition opening at the same day :I

One day I did start a painting, a big one 80x80

it was going to an exhibition.

It started like this...

Adding layer b y layer of a bright an  beautiful layers..

Suddenly there were 3 birds there...

With a doodle here and there.... I came as far as this..

And suddenly there was a girl with a bird... yes I did paint over my birds..

She was good looking, with a bird on her shoulder, small wings and a beautiful quote in her hair that says.. Nothing can dim the light that comes from within.. (Maya Angelou)

And this is how my painting ended... with a bronze background... 

A little different from the start

But tats how I paint... 

The other exhibition was an outdoor exhibition for one evening, painting on a thick cloth.. 

Much fun making, loved this event.. 

Have a beautiful weekend

Namaste 

Summer of color

Summer of color is a big, international blog party featuring six weeks of color prompts, weekly linking opportunities, fabulous giveaways, creative inspirations and an amazing artistic community.

I was thinking about joining them last year but Then I was to busy so now I´m going to try. 

Every week I think we get new colors to work with. This week we had to use two blue colors and one green. This is how my 3 colors look... 

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I think the two blue are to similar 

This is what i did paint..

Not to happy, I can do better....

Have a beautiful day

Namaste

Why I paint what I paint...

Like I told you in my last post then I have been unable to paint for few weeks... had to have my leg strait and did not fit in to my studio like that, sitting in a wheel chair.

But yesterday I was able to sit for a while with my leg down so I did a little painting.

As you might know Im taking Mystele´s class Gut Art. At first I was completely lost did not know what to do but after a little help from a friend I begun to understand.

I did make a background, using Acryl, stamps, graphite, stencils, ink spray, ink, and water. I did make lines, round shapes, zikzak lines and just anything I could think of.

When dried I did turn my paper around many times trying to find out what was hiding in my background. And after a moment I had found some interesting things.

I did make the lines darker and you can see what I saw.

After I had found out what would be in my painting I did start with a white paint and then a black paint. Adding a little paint here and there.

Now I did also find a little bird in the ladies dress..

I was not to happy with  my painting, It needed a litttle more colors and I had to fix the lettering in her face.

So I did a little more painting and I start using my oil pastels that I have never used before.

So now Im done, like it a lot better like this. What do you think?

Please leave me a comment, It would make me happy :)

Have a beautiful day

Namaste

My Blog Hop

For the first time Im taking a part in a Blog Hop.

For one week, we (few girls) will be posting one after another our art on or blog        and giving away something to one of them that leaves a message.

So please leave a message and you might be the lucky one :)

What I should make for this Blog Hop was a Totem animal.

Im not 100% sure what Totem animal is but Im doing my best trying to understand..

As always I do start with the background.

This time Im working on a pice of wood.

I found a map and did cut out South America, 

I did that for Guada, the girl that started this Blog Hop :)

Then I did use my stencils, little here and little there.

Then I did draw birds, 3 little birds on a paper. Mulberry paper I think the name is but I learned to use it from a friend.

Most of the time I do add 3 things to my paintings, don´t know why

but I would love to say that these are my 3 children.

Then I did a little more stenciling.

Painted the birds and let them dry.

Then I did glue my birds on the background and added a little stencils here and there.. did a little doodling.

And my painting is ready. What do you think?

3 little birds, all the same for the mother, one has left the nest that is my oldest son.

The one in the middle with its long legs is my daughter, still at home though she studies in USA and stays there most of the time.

The little one is my youngest son, still staying at home and I think he is going to stay for a long time or as long as his computer lives :) 

So here you have my Blog Hop, remember to leave a message and feel free to follow so that you can see what the other Blog Hopper have for you..

You can find out all about it here

Have a beautiful and blessed day

Namaste

A little work on an old drawer...

My husband was cleaning the garage and throwing some old stuff...

Just before he took of from the house I saw this little old drawer he was not supposed to throw.

So I got it in the house and washed it and cut some inexpensive paper from a dollar store.

Then I only used Golden Gel Medium to glue the paper on the front of the drawer.

I´m so happy with the result..

In the first drawer I keep my stencils, then I keep my quotes and butterflies...

and so on....

Have a beautiful week

Namaste

Im learning from Kelly Rae Roberts....

My newest class is the one with Kelly Rae Roberts.

Hello soul, hello mixed media mantras.

Im in love with her art, she is the best in layers, I think.

I love the way she build up her paintings, layer by layer

and her choose of color is so fantastic.

As she says then she loves the white and use it a lot to blend other colors with.

It all starts with paint building up layers of colors, warm colors, cold colors and all the other colors and sprays, stencils and stamps, layer by layer. 

There are so many small details in her paintings and I tried to do my best by 

finding small things that would fit in my painting.

I worked on my first one for a long time, was not happy, 

to crowded and something was wrong.

So I did a little changes here and there and now Im almost done, 

going to work a little more with the lettering in the bottom.

I started working on my second background. Did a good start.

Love this one, reminds me of the summertime. 

Not going to work more on this one.

This one is on my desk now.

Im a little afraid with this one, dont know what to do next. 

Have not glued down the butterfly jet, not sure if I use it. 

Love the colors in this one, they are not my favorite but I like them.

That is my life today....

Trying to learn from the best...

Hoping that one day I find my style using all the tricks 

from all the wonderful teachers I have been learning from the past two years.

Have a beautiful day, all of you

Namaste

Hello Soul