Panel "Dragonfly" by Anastasi Kuznetsova

Hello!

Here is Anastasi Kuznetsova and I want to show you a wooden panel of 20x30 centimeters.

Recently, I was very attracted to the effect of rust, so I often use a set of rust effect pastes from Finnabair. Here I used it to create a background, diluted with sprays.

I mixed also the golden rust with 3D mat gel, and applied it also through the stencil. I tinted the background using ink and oil pastels. I cut out a circle from a sheet of  7 Dots Studio paper and I covered it with clear crackle paste from Finnabair.

To darken the cracks, I used oil pastels. I wiped a little bit of them in the cracks, and wiped off the excess with a napkin.

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If you can dream it by Cindy Brown

Hello Dear Creative Souls
Today I show you the front cover of my 2017 calendar.
I love to create the texture with the magnificent products from Prima.
Of course I have created a little video for you below.

I started the whole project with creating texture using mechanicals and chipboard pieces. I have added flowers. Then I painted some of the areas with the Prima chalkboard paint. I finished with adding some droplets here and there.

Here is my video:

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Tracy Scott - June Guest Designer

Do you like colors? We love colors! Colors make us happier in rainy day. And who doesn't love butterflies?! Our June designer - talented Tracy Scott - made colorful butterflies a focal point of her stunning canvas. Are you ready to be flooded by colors?

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My name is Tracy Scott and when not at the day job as a Finance Officer in East London I love nothing more that to relax with a glass of the red stuff and create wonderful brightly coloured art !!! A self confessed colour-holic, I love to experiment with new mediums and colour combos, the brighter the better... no Browns and beiges for this girl I'm afraid !!! I've been fortunate enough to be able to start teaching mixed media and art journalling in the last 18 months in my spare time and love every single minute of it, it's incredibly satisfying to inspire others to create and reach for their creative dreams.

I was so excited receive my order from Mixed Media Place, my new Art Alchemy Acrylic Paints, Prima Watercolours, stamps and various other goodies had arrived and I just couldn't wait to get started !!

I knew I wanted to create a mixed media piece full of colour and texture and just knew that it had to have some of Finnabairs fabulous butterfly stamps.  9x11 canvas board was the perfect substrate. 

For this piece I used a mix of the stunning Prima Watercolours and Art Alchemy Paints for my background over a base of texture created with modelling paste through my favourite bubble stencil and small pieces of torn resist canvas. 

Various sized butterflies were stamped onto 300 gram card with black archival ink and I coloured with a mix of the Art Alchemy paints and also added some shading with my Prima Watersoluble Oil Pastels, the pastels are super creamy and the rich colours compliment the paints perfectly. 

Prima's fabulous Art Stones and Mini Art Stones as well as Gold Glass Glitter were used around the canvas board to add some more texture and interest and of course I had to add some fine glitter to my butterflies and around the canvas. 

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this project. Sometimes using new products and mediums can be hard work but the Prima paints were amazing, the colours stunning and the metallic finish give a truly luxurious finish. 

Mmmmm now what to create next !!!!!!

List of Mixed Media Place supplies:

Art Alchemy Paints

Prima Watercolours Tropicals

Prima Watersoluble Oil Pastels

Prima Art Stones

Prima Mini Art Stones

3D Matt gel

Prima Resist Canvas

Prima Bubbles Stencil

Prima Modelling paste

Prima gold Glass Glitter

Prima fine glitter iridescent

Black and white dylusions paint

Butterfly mounted stamps small and large

Specimen A by Riikka

Media are heaven for artists and creative souls - most often the effect you achieve is not completely expected, but this is what makes playing with them so excited. Take a look at Riikka's art-journal spread below and you will surely know, what I mean :)


It seems that turn of the year makes me want to explore and play. It’s not that often I take out my art journal and do a page there but lately I’ve been using it more and more. For example, this spread started as a playground for watercolors, acrylics and inks and ended up looking like this in the end!

What I did first was to add watercolors to the spread that already had touches of acrylics on it. I used a big brush and covered most of the white pretty quickly. On top I then started to layer stamping and inks through a stencil. The whole spread was going too green for my taste so I grabbed the oil pastels and added some turquoise touches here and there to balance the things out. You see, the acrylic spots already in there were turquoise and green so I needed some more of the other color, too.

When I had the background done I started to think what to put on top. As I’m always fascinated of old photos the Ephemera pack was a great inspiration and I chose two photos and made a story with them. Before adding the layered papers to the spread I noticed that the color scheme of the background was way too bright for the vintage photos. But not to worry, tea to the rescue! I mixed tea, watercolor and Soft Matte Gel together into a glaze kind of thing and spread the whole background with it. While drying with the heat tool some lovely streaks appeared when the glaze started to pool.

After getting “him and her” in place I added a couple of embellishments and wrote the story with a Sharpie. I deliberately used rounded handwriting and wrote the lines on top of each other that the words are not readable but form a design element.

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