MATS A course - Home Decor

The next assignment of the MATS (Make Art Thats Sells) course is to design 2 or more plates. The inspiration for the pieces is Staffordshire pottery. If you haven't seen Staffordshire pottery before.... like I did :-)...Google some images. The figurines were a bit too much for me, so I used 2 colorful ceramic birds I once bought in Mexico as my inspiration.

I started with a sketch of one of the birds, and created a mixed media collage from it. You know I love collage and handpainted papers.

 

I combined the 2 collaged birds with a design I did earlier. One of lush green leaves.

This is the final submittion for this weeks assignment. Wouldn't it be great if you could buy these for a summer's picnic?

Working on a new YouTube video

This week I have been working on a new YouTube video. The pictures are taken, the canvas is fnished and now I just have to put it together and publish it. It will be a video on how to create a Mixed Media Canvas in 10 steps. Here is the end result.

Blossoms in watercolor and some ATC's

 

This weekend I am playing in the Labor Day all art a thon at www.atcsforall.com. A full weekend creating with friends all over the world and lots of trading of course. So far I made 4 ATC's, I will show you two. One done in pen and watercolors, using a reference image from WetCanvas. And one mixed media collage.

 

 

 

And I have been painting with watercolors in my Moleskine watercolor journal (A4). This is a painting of a reference image in the Florals forum on WetCanvas (challenge for the month August).

Watercolor paintings in my journal

I have been painting all weekend! In between sitting outside in the warm sunshine I have painted 2 watercolors in my Moleskin watercolor journal 11 1/2" x 8 1/2". The painting with the swans is for the challenge in of of the forums on WetCanvas and the water lily is for me ;-). I am also painting the swans in alcohol inks. The reference of the water lily was a picture I took of the water lilies in the pond in Mission San Juan Capristrano in California last May.