Mermaids

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Mermaid Magic

This mermaid was done in mixed media...everything I could find....acrylic paints, cut patterned paper,  jewels, sequins...painted on wood.  

She is rather cute waiting for her morning cup of tea ...... dreamy eyes and long hair make her very dreamy!  If you would like a mermaid girl painted or collage ...

you may contact me at christinequimbyart@gmail.com.   

Ski Girl - Mixed Media

Ski Girl  …she was painted with everything I could find!  - Mixed Media
  

First, I sketched out the ski girl.  I wanted her to be flying and wanted her to be warm.  She is both…the bright white sun snowflake keeps her joyful.
I used acrylic paints, inks, markers, scrap paper, stencils, paper punches, mod podge,  my brayer and just kept adding layers to create the background.  When I was happy with the background, I painted my girl, then collaged her onto the background.   I want to still work a bit on her eyes so they pop!
What do you think?
Leave your comments below.
She is my January Girl…now on to February!

Stop Back Later for "Live with a Thankful Heart" Repainted and the newest version

I say that but I never know what I will create from 'my happy place' and that's what I love so much about painting…it's the surprise!
Thanks for stopping by…Christine Quimby@blogspot.com

painting a message that "kindness matters"

The Next Step in A New Mixed Media Piece

 I played around with cutting out some shapes to make my village scene and somehow a couple of sunflowers and a barn appeared… so I went with it and moved to the country.  Here are a few of the shapes I cut out…the sunflowers were cut from an old greeting card that I made…not sure if I will use them as they are a bit big…maybe in the foreground.

I plan on making a background with scraps, watercolors, soluble crayons and whatever else I find.  The best part about this process is that I can do whatever I want…the worst part is that I find out that I don't know what I am doing.

So let's see what happens.

I decided I needed 2 pieces of paper …maybe do one of those panel art pieces where you can frame each one ; yet put them side by side.  Still, thinking those sunflowers are too big.

Now I am ready to start making the background.  I put all my little cut outs in a tray and start with the mod podge.  I want to layer the background and experiment with stamping and blending.

Started to work with water-soluble crayons to damp out the white.  Working with blending and using baby wipes to do so…read that somewhere on line.  Still needs quite a bit of color and blending.

So I am going to let this be for today…which is very difficult for me.  I placed my cut outs on the background but nothing is glued on yet as I need to mull this over a bit.  I also changed a few of the shapes as I thought there was too much pattern going on. There's still so much to do, but I am not sure what.  Check tomorrow or soon after to see what happens. 

 Being new at making art, I have to learn to let it evolve.  The colors in the above photo are not the best (need to take photos in better lighting) we are having a blizzard today and snow is covering my skylight; therefore not the best lighting for my photos.

 check back to see the changes in this piece   

I am not in a hurry; and I will work on this some more tomorrow.  ... what I love about making art the most is the surprises.  One thing I know for certain,  this piece is not close to being finished … and I took a big step by posting it, well, not that big, as who out there is really looking?  Let me know if you are!

Please leave suggestions and/or comments if you are so inspired.  I would love to hear what other artists have to say.