abstract | acrylics | art | inspiration | painting
Spirit Lifting! Cobalt Teal
Clarity. Uplifting, happy. An Afternoon spent painting Abstracts with cobalt teal blue is delightfully relaxing.
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acrylics | art | color | inspiration | painting
Cobalt Teal Blue and Indigo
Gorgeous combination of colours – Indigo and Cobalt Teal blue. Loving the oasis feeling of cobalt teal! Intense, Indigo creates a perfect contrast and brings out the shimmering radiance of the cobalt teal. And it’s all with a brayer. The medium I chose to work in was acrylics. Again, keeping it simple with […]
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Acrylic Abstract Ocean Painting With Turquoise
Abstract painting fast and loose! I was able to create this free, colourful Abstract Ocean painting without a brush in just minutes! Here’s how. Materials For Acrylic Painting: Palette knife, canvas with a coat of orange already on it and 4 colours. Limiting my palette to white, buff titanium, turquoise and prussian helps maintain […]
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acrylics | art | color | inspiration
Art for Fun: Creative Colourful GelliPrints
What’s a gelli-print!? It’s a super soft, print making ‘plate’ that has quite a bit of flexibility. Yes, you can buy premade “Gelli Plates.” I chose not, today. I wanted to make a DIY! To create it from things in my kitchen. “Wow, what fun! Creative, imaginative. Liberating.” And, “I feel like a kid […]
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Acrylic Pouring Paintings Create Magic
Mesmerising and magical patterns with a wonderful and inspiring feeling of freedom…. acrylic pouring paintings create magic!
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acrylics | art | color | inspiration
Banish Boring Brushstrokes: Part 2
The Masters knew. Make every brush stroke count. Each should sing! It should be easy, painting a single brushstroke onto a canvas creating a mark that is luminous and clean, fresh and lively – not boring! Full of texture, color and of course, with a good tonal range. That doesn’t sound too difficult, but it is […]
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acrylics | art | beginners paintings | color | inspiration
3 Tips to Banish Boring Brushstrokes
I want powerful, dynamic brushstrokes! I want them lively, not boring. And, I want 1 brushstroke to do the job of 20……. Its not that I’m slacking off, I tell myself I’m ‘efficient.’ I’d like my time, effort and energy to be optimised to the maximum possible. You too? I thought so! Let me tell you […]
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acrylics | art | color | Impressionist | inspiration | nature | painting
Acrylics: Cobalt Sky Landscape
The shock of the nearly overpowering cobalt blue sky is what grabs you first when you step out of the cool four wheel drive into the stark outback wilderness. Miles and miles of endless red dirt and cobalt blue sky. I loved it! Acrylic Landscape The only break is the occasional outcrop of rock […]
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acrylics | art | inspiration | painting | watercolors
Painting Impressionistic Landscapes
Loose, free, colourful, impressionistic – thats how I love to paint landscapes. Using the Impressionistic approach I’ll use my hand, my brush, a colour to put my own personal interpretation of the subject into the paintings. I enjoy bold colour applied with confidence, something that looks like I was having fun! I really don’t […]
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Experimental Art Processes
The last few weeks have been quite prolific with a number of experimental drawing and painting workshops. The themes ranged from Klee, Degas, to music, to landforms and then to pure imagination – wonderful art creations emerged though out the workshop processes! Two of the key points in each of the workshops was (1) […]