Tuesday, 15 March 2022

All things Resin and Polymer Clay


Do you remember when every creative artist tried resin!  Yep I was one of them, but I found it

 really sticky, I don't like sticky!.









I also tried polymer clay! and created these journals which took such a long time.  Other crafters were

 selling them for about $100, I could only sell them for $45 back in 2018.









Friday, 6 June 2014

Fly Like Eagles, Fly with Eagles

My latest acrylic with gel medium so it is then classified as mixed media.
I really enjoyed painting this using gel medium and exploring with water using a mist bottle and dripping the acrylic on the panel and spraying water on it.  Since starting an art journal I have really enjoyed the friend of creating new techniques.
I actually gave this one to a friend who looked just like this lady.

 16" x 20" 

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Behind the Mask

Painting of a Peacock and a Lady in a Mask

This painting was inspired when I was working with Indian ink, giving a 3D feel to it.  I have always loved peacocks and their colours.  I could hear their “johaan” call as I progressed with this painting and remembered when going with my son when he was 3 to the MacDonald Farm, chatting to the male peacock there.  All the kids just loved it when I shouted “johaan” and he proceeded to answer me back and fanning his tail feathers to its fullest bloom.  Perhaps “Proud as a Peacock” should have been the name of this painting, but I could not make the girl look “proud”.

14" x 14"