Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Heartfully Creating: Art in Two Dimensions - Sharing A few of Anita's Old Sketchbook Drawings!

Recently, I discovered an old sketchbook that brought back memories. Thought it would be nice to share what I found in a short video. 
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Painting With Craig: Sealable Palette - Does It Work? A Review

Over the course of my artistic career, I made the water spray bottle my number one tool to keep my palette wet and juicy. Otherwise the acrylics would for that plastic skin, eventually drying out completely rendering the useless!  As mentioned in the palette talk

The biggest problem with Acrylic paints and oils are their inability to be reactivated once dry or video previously, I tried a wet palette that is sealable but found it too big, The idea we saw at this great channel, offered the great idea to make your own wet palette. Please check his videos out here at CLIVE5ART. Personally, we both prefer the method mentioned in the Palette Talk video.

But it would be great if we could find a palette that can be sealed. Craig and I would use a ziploc bag around a makeshift palette, like a disposable plastic or styrofoam plate. Even though we ziploc it, there is always a risk that the paint will dry out. As you will soon see, wasting precious, expensive artist paint is one of my biggest fear as an artist. We have a special story coming soon on that topic!
Watch Our Sealable EBay Palette Test and  Review Below
When I was shopping on Ebay.ca (I live in Canada). I was surprised to discover a sealable paint palette. So I thought I bet this would work for Craig when he uses the acrylics.  Here is the link in Ebay to find it.

We received it after about 3 weeks. That is pretty good from China to Canada, Shipping was free, the cost about 17 dollars Canadian. I see today it's 15 dollars. Go figure. The first test would be to put paint in it and see if it truly does seal. You will have to watch the video to see what we discovered. One warning, ALWAYS  read the size details before ordering online!




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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

HeArtfully Creating: SO MANY CHOICES!! - Painting Palette talk With Craig


Today we get to talk about the variety of painting palette in this super exciting video. You wouldn't think there were this many options but there are. And there are even more than what we share today. A palette is used for mixing paint and accessing your paint while you, well, paint. Really you can use any thiing that is non  porous. We will do a review next about a new sealable palette I bought Craig.
Watch Palette Talk Below!



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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Learn With Me: Talking About Alcohol Ink And UV Resin Fun



 I love learning and lately I have been learning more and more about using Alcohol Inks.. The possibilities are many. Depending on the non pourous surface you apply them to, the way they work together is amazingly cool. Using acrylic paint most of my life as well as other paint types, alcohol inks are a completely different medium. Then encasing the alcohol ink piece in resin add even more neat dimension. Alcohol ink can be used in or on my fave, polymer clay. It can colour metals, glass, acetates, ceramic tiles - ny non porous surface. Yupo  paper has been mentioned often in tutorials I have watched. Sounds like a plastic light "paper." I want to try it soon, just costly. But above I used aluminium foil, so use what you want. Paper will just soak up the ink and it won't be the same experience.
48 Ferro Rochers were in this container. I  love those hazelnut delights. I love great containers too!

Thanks to Debbie Crothers (check out her great tutorials), I used a Ferro Rocher container's liner as a palette to pour some inkk into. She uses ice cube trays. Let it evaporate and then rubbing alcohol reconstitute it whenever you need them. Or I dipped my paint brush into rubbing alcolohol and it picked up the evaporated ink's pigment. Experiment. It isn't drippable like this but you can turn it back to that with enough alcohol.
Watch My UV Resin and Alcohol Ink Video Below

I have talked about this before....the UV resin from the easily recognized UV resin from China. The bottles I keep trying have basically no english on them. In the video above, I have come to more conclusions about this particular brand of resin. I tried a total of about four different bottles and all did the same thing. If I leave it in a mold away from UV light, it still hardens even if I let it sit awa from light. Thinking you have all this pot time or work time....nope, it just won't sit a  stay liquid like. So frustrating. But that is all I will say on that for now. Just watch the video for more thoughts on the topic.
Or you can buy a watercolour palette on Ebay and pour it into the compartments and let evaporate. I tried to label the colours.
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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Painting With Craig - The Beginning - Tutorial Video


Join Craig as he prepares for a new acrylic painting. We share the essentials to begin a painting. Hopefully you will be a little inspired to  paint. So we will follow him step by step as he works on a new masterpiece!
Watch Video Below!!


My husband Craig! 

Preliminary Drawing on his canvas

 I will be working  on my own creations and posting videos soon.

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