The Mad Tea-Party

joining the seemingly most magical and fun TEA PARTY  of the year :D

Mad Tea-Party

Some faces

Today I want to share a few pieces/portraits. The first one is a bird I painted for a friend on Facebook.
It is painted with acrylics and oil pastel on a fabric background.

Yesterday I finished this little print and water colour with some lines with my Pitt ink pen, keeping it quite simple :-)

The next two pieces are monochromatic water colour portraits I did about two weeks ago. I think the Paine's grey I used for this is very effective. I like the nuances you can create with it. 

Lastly I want to share this mixed media piece I have drawn and painted in my new furniture catalogue art journal. I used pastels charcoal, acrylics and coloured pencils.

I hope you like the show today, I really loved working with these pieces!

Wish you all a fun party at: PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

And thank you to Kristin and Eva for hosting the mega event :D

Children's art and my own art

Today and yesterday my daughter and her friend and I worked on different paintings and objects. 

I'd like to show you what my daughter and her friend have worked with: a sculpture with an owl carrying an ice-cone and a snail

My daughter has prepared a canvas for further work:

And the two girls painted over two portraits I have done earlier, and which I didn't want to keep:

Do you remember I told you about the face in the world? It is quite a long time ago a group of people from Ayala Art's 29 Faces group started the project. You can see two posts about it here and here. Today I completed one of the portraits. I collaged the blouse and added some of the background colour. The blouse is a drawing of shells with coloured pencils, on top of which I glued rice paper with some light blue water colour inc. She will be sent to Audrey in the US very soon!

I also did this little painting, which my daughter already has hung in her room. She said she liked it as it was, though I wasn't really finished!!! :D 

Below I made use of an idea another artist shared on Facebook. She always uses a canvas as a palette when she works on a painting. That is what I have started doing. Below you can see one of those canvases. As my supply of acrylic is limited to a few colours including the primary colours, I often use those in my paintings and mix the colours as I need them.

And finally a canvas on which I used different materials acrylic, pastels, water colour. I want to give it away and would like to hear some opinions from you. 

I'm linking this to: Paint Party Friday

Hi you all! I'm slowly returning to the surface and enjoy getting some paint in my hands!

It's wonderful to be back in the blogging world and enjoy the company of other artists on the parties around in the blogosphere :-)

Finally I finished my exams for the teacher education with an oral exam on friday, so I am an English teacher now! Yes!!!

I have seen some of you are participating in the Summer of Colour and think it is a great inspiration! It will be too much for me to join in on that but I played with the colour prompt of the citron green and turquoise.

Here are a few small pieces:

I started off with water colours, but as I only have the three primary colours it is really difficult (impossible?) to get these delicate colors that were selected for the SOC prompt. But I bought new Stabilo point 88 pens yesterday and there the needed colours were represented :-) and something different for me to play with for a change! So here are some free style flowers and ornaments:

The following piece is a greeting card for a birthday and it is all in watercolour.

I'm going to insert a white card inside and add the birthday wishes and close the card with a ribbon.

The last piece is again a combination of water colour, pastel and stabilos the photo was taken before it was finished.

These will all go to a friend and brought in stead of flowers. I hope she will enjoy them!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Paper Picasso Inspiration

An hour of artsy pastime and my husband is impressed. Always at the most unexpected moments :-)
I have been thinking of a mobile for PAPER SATURDAY for some days, but needed an idea.
Today I needed to do something crafty and just started.

here come the first cuts:

But I wanted to include a face, but how to do that free hand?

Then I came to think of the "Mix it Monthly Challenge" where Picasso, butterflies and a beautiful face were included. I visited Pia Rom's blog and the path was set...a butterfly and two eyes

a pointed nose and expressive lips...

A LOT OF YELLOW! ;-)

And the mobile was finished

Inspired by my work from yesterday, I did another mobile free style - not knowing what it would end up like. It is great fun, but a little hard on my index finger ;-)

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Ilona's greeting you :-)

Paint Party Friday

It's Friday already!!! Oh my, I need to hurry, because there's so much to do.... :-)

I have made a few portraits and I have drawn snails this week, as my daughter loves them. I took a few photos and one of them I have edited a little and drawn the photo afterwards.
Just presenting the results of this weeks art-work and then hurry on to my writing task again! Have wonderful weekend all of you and enjoy art at PAINT PARTY FRIDAY!

Thank you for visiting! :-)

Ilona

Painting on wood

I bought a few wooden decorations this week. They have natural colours and I wanted to paint on them and maybe abandon them. One of them went into my daughter's possession :-)

They are works in progress and here are some process photos of them:

I started this heart with doodling with my Indian ink pen.

Here is the other side:

After doodling I covered all of it with a layer of satin silver acrylic.

And finally I started colouring it with water colour.

The second piece is a butterfly, which I painted with acrylic first and then started painting the face of a young woman. 

Below a detail-shot of the face.

The last three pictures are showing slight changes in shading and colouring of the skin.

The other side of the butterfly shows a rabbit painted only with Payne's grey. The surrounding is painted green and the other half will end up half a butterfly again.

This was it for this week. Thank you for good wishes for the exam! It was an ok day. 

Hope you enjoyed the week-end!

Sharing on PPF!