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Saturday, October 10, 2020

Brighten Up The Neighbourhood - Mail Box Art: DIY and Learn With Me Using Acrylic Paint!

Our really old home made mail box was looking sad and tired. Along the theme of Brightening Up Our Neighbourhood with colourful art, take a watch at my new video sharing how I transformed our 17 year old mailbox. Originally my husband Craig and my mom had made the box part and I painted it to look like our house (sort of.) Unfortunately it got weathered and the paint split. Craig sanded it down first (just a bit.) So kick back and watch the transformation. Hope you are inspired to make your own mailbox!

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Before it looked like this!


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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Brightening Up The Neighboorhood: Welcome Sign Grand with Paint Pens Finale 3/3

Happy Tuesday fellow artists. Here is the Grand Finale of my new DIY welcome sign, all screwed into our outside wall. IIt was a fun project.
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Friday, September 4, 2020

A Good Sign: Brighten Up The Neighbourhood With Paint Pens / Markers - Part One

Has the whole world wide, life altering pandemic have you locked down or at least feeling down? It is hard to believe that an unseen virus can control so much. Awesome thing is, in spite of what we have all been experiencing,  Corona is not in control, God is! And that means we can choose to give in to the temptation to let it all weigh down our hearts (I get tempted to do that) or we can embrace what we have, wherever we ave it. What's that old saying. "Bloom where you're planted."

After seeing so much disrepair, unkempt lawns and weedy gardens (not just ours), it seemed like a fun idea to start brightening things up around our home's exterior. This is just one project that I will be sharing with you, I have already posted the projects on Instagram @a_bergie_creation and at my Heartfully Creating group page if you want a sneak peek. Below is part one of my video about the project....
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Think about how much colour and happy characters or images can make you smile. In fact after all of these projects I want to make something else cheery to hang where I can see it through our window during the bleak winter days that we tend to have. (sorry, I know white is pretty but not fun for me to wander out in.)

As you will see I have been enjoying colourful acrylic paint pens (sorry, still not done all the paint pen reviews). And after my husband Craig sanded up some pieces of old wood, originally to be used in my paint pen reviews, I spontaneously started a Welcome sign for the front of our home. So, here is part one of the process creating this very fun and colourful sign, My hope is to not only show you how well affordable (Not
Posca) paint pens work on wood surfaces.

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Materials required:
A pencil
Paint Pens (I used Aroic, Toole-Art, Artistro and Ohuhu pens -mostly .07mm and a few 3mm)
Gesso or white paint or acrylic paint pens
Polyurethane or some such finish to protect from outdoor elements

I did coat the slightly sanded reclaimed wood with white acrylic paint or gesso. And then lightly penciled in some letters that I turned into characters. But I did not pre-plan it all. This took a long time because I really enjoyed tweaking the characters and layering and changing colours.

If it is going outside, apparently oil paint pens are more durable but, I didn't have any until today so I coated the surface with Polycrylic -polyurethane.


Hope you enjoy the first part, I will be editing part two very soon!

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Friday, August 14, 2020

Affordable Acrylic Paint Pens - Rock Test, Aroic, Tooli-Art, Flymax, Artistro, Ohuhu: Review Pt 2

Here is part two. Trying affordable paint pens on wood and a bit about it on paper.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Learn With Me - No Yupo? Creating A Substrate (surface) For Alcohol Inks

The past few weeks, I didn't have the ever popular Yupo "paper" and wanted to create a similar surface so I could use my alcohol inks. Yupo paper is not actually paper but polypropylene sheets that are nonporous. They are used a lot for alcohol ink painting. Now that I have tried the real thing, I can see why artists use it. Colours are bright and bold, no bleeding or absorbing, just pure pigment flow.

However, aside from being able to use alcohol inks on other nonporous substrates or surfaces, I thought hey, I can create a nonporous surface using my acrylic medium and/or gesso and such. Nonporous means a non absorbent ssurface so the inks can move and flow. You can see why when you put a drop on cardstock or paper, a porous surface and see how it wicks up the ink. The fun and beauty of alcohol inks is what the do when the meet each other. Far different than any paint I have ever worked with. Try it and you will see why this medium is so addicting!

Come see what I did and maybe you could use these ideas too.
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Friday, October 27, 2017

Yay! YouTube Fixed It and We're Back!

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