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Relax this evening and paint with me! This Stashbuster watercolor tutorial utilizes wet into wet blending, masking fluid, and layering to create brilliant baubles. I demonstrate on a bookmark, but this would make a great greeting card or gift tag!
Forgot to post these simple little chicken hacky sacks/heat packs i made for my siblings for christmas. 100% cotton and filled with sunflower seeds (the chickens did NOT appreciate me borrowing from their stash but i was out of rice) so they can be heated up for hand warmers or to ease aches and pains
hi! this is Insomniac Anon here!!! I noticed on some of ur artworks (specifically the unique magic posters), that u have a textured look to em, like paper or grain ... i wanted to ask how u get that effect? is it a brush, a filter, or like an overlay/png u use ... ? pls tell me!! ;v; I really like how the texture looks, so i wanted to know how 2 do it since ure a very big inspo 2 me LAWL ... I've been doing art practices in diff styles i find, so, i wanted to know a bit more how you do it :^D
thank you! :D :D :D it's usually photos/textures of paper that I've messed around with; I have a bunch of free/paid/ones I took myself. anytime I see good photos of paper I add it to the collection...it is my weakness. 😔
I mostly use Photoshop, but this should work in any program that supports blending modes (also I did this in like an hour to use as an example, please forgive it :')
image by itself before texturing:
with the texture pasted in (for this one I'm using this public domain one from Pexels):
then mess around with the blending mode to see how it looks -- in this case I went with overlay, but soft light and hard light are usually good ones too, it really depends on the texture:
then with a bunch of messing around with opacity/colors/saturation/levels/adding in a bit more texture until I like how it looks:
One of my favorite effects is a sort of reverse splatter paint. When the base layer of acrylics is completely dry I paint a second coat in different colors and quickly splatter water over the entire piece. I dab the water droplets away with some paper towel and voila! An energetic abstract base for my art. 🌈
Your art is incredible!! Did you take classes/where’d you take your classes?
Thank you so much!
I've never really taken proper classes, I learn by studying on my own -- drawing what I see around me, studying other artwork, studying photos, and mostly just a lot of experimenting and figuring out what I enjoy. I think it's evident I lack a solid foundation and am not a very technically skilled artist but that's ok, I'm always trying to learn and am still trying to figure out what direction to take my art in
I wanted to share this since, I had an old friend ask me how to draw hands since I know how hard it is to draw hands, this is a easy step on how to draw hand for beginnings( I’m not good at teaching) this helped me how to draw hands better. U can draw hand in ur style too, this is just a easy step to draw em. Also this method doesn’t always work in different poses to draw hands. But it can also.
Looking for a fun indoor art project to keep you busy while the weather is chilly? Paint with me today! Let's paint some jolly jingle bells on a DIY bookmark!
Jolly Jingle Bells Bookmark Stashbuster Watercolor Tutorial
Here's another cute gift idea: a small crocheted basket with animal ears.
This beginner-friendly project requires the basic crochet stitches, and knowing how to work in the round.
You can find this pattern for free on Ravelry and on Móhu's blog. It comes with an option for bear ears and one for cat ears.
(Image source) [ID: two small crocheted baskets in front of a white background. The dark brown basket has pointy cat ears while the white basket has round bear ears. Each basket is filled with small crocheted plushies.]