This morning, I woke way too early and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I decided to do some more ACEOs/ATCs – two sets of four this time!
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Artwork auction for charity – Mia Chambers, Rainbow Warrior Princess
I have this piece of artwork on eBay to raise money to help send a little girl to the USA for cancer treatment not available in the UK.
Mia Chambers, Rainbow Warrior Princess has a facebook page . She also has a Just Giving page where you can also read more about her journey.
Please either consider bidding for this artwork, making a donation to her Just Giving page, and/or sharing this post far and wide so other people can help get this brave little girl the treatment she needs, as well as helping other children with similar cancers.
Thank you.
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Poppy capsules mixed media
I’ve decided to do my best to be brave and confident and use my own drawings and designs in my mixed media work. The poppy seed heads and the ‘zentangle’ patterns are drawn by myself.
The inchie with the quote on – creative journey – is milky as the Glossy Accents on the tile hasn’t dried yet, but it will dry clear and glossy.
Here’s a list of the media I used:
- Papers – 300gsm watercolour paper, cream paper for pencil and pastel work, marker paper, kraft card, mixed media paper
- Paints – Paperartsy Fresco paints, Liquitex copper paint, Cosmic Shimmer copper iridescent watercolour paint
- Pens and pencils – Faber-Castell Pitt artist pens, Derwent Inktense
- Leafy and flower stencils
- Sizzix Big Shot and dies for cutting some of the gears and an embossing folder to add texture to one of the background papers
- Metal gears and keys
- Glossy Accents
- Cosmic Shimmer acrylic glue
- Archival Ink in black and sepia
- Distress inks
- Spray bottles – one filled with plain water, the other filled with water and copper Perfect Pearl
- Gems
- Wow Holographic Sparkle embossing powder and a Versamark pen
- Cut and dry foam
- Various brushes
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Romanesque bird ‘punked mixed media
I’ve come to a standstill on this one. I don’t think it’s finished but I don’t know what is missing.
The focal point is a small sketch I did of a Romanesque bird; I used coloured pencils on coloured paper followed by Pitt Artist pen. I also ‘distressed’ it with Distress Inks and water spray. It is a very, very sketchy drawing, but I feel I need to be a bit more confident in using my own drawings/art in such mixed media art.
I just don’t know what else this needs, though. I’ve tried out the idea of using wire spirals wrapped with finer wire and beads, and that doesn’t feel it would work, not unless it’s one of the first things I make and use. Flowers don’t work, neither does foliage…
So, I’ll leave it be for a while and come back to it at a later time…sometimes that’s the best thing to do.
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Live gently upon this Earth – Mixed media artwork
I’ve had a bit of a week with appointments and then yesterday was a day where I needed some self-care. I did, however, begin work on this particular piece, and I’ve gone crazy on making ATC sized backgrounds ready for work on them, particularly using the Dylusions paints which have laid dormant in my stash for a long, long time.
This particular mixed media pieces has a colour scheme that is not typically ‘Angela’. There’s lots of god in it, and the flowers look more like succulents than flowers, bu tthey do kind of work!
The close-up image shows the ATC that’s become the focal point of the piece, along with the metal charms and keys that have been added.
Angela Porter 