Pouring Art on canvas

Hello and welcome!

Yesterday I participated in something called Pouring course. It was a course that was held by a local art store here in the city where I live. I had a great time doing this. Pouring is also called Floritol Art, and probably other things as well. I think this is my thing. I love this technique, it is so unpredictable.

Here are some pictures from the course, and some of my canvas where I've used this Pouring technique:

This is my make on the course. The Paint is still very wet. It has to dry for a couple of days.

This is the teacher and the owner of the Art Store, Malepaletten, showing this fun technique for us.

These two are canvases I made before the course with the Pouring technique

I will show you the finish result of my canvas I made on the course when it's dry. 

You will definitely see more of this in the future 😊 

Thank you for visiting! I will soon come back with a video tutorial on how to decorate my Mini File Folder Art Journal. You who follow me know what I am talking about. If not click here to find out. 

Hugs, Anita❤ 

Tips and Tricks Monday - How to achieve exciting texture in your artwork

Hello and welcome!

Today is it the Tips & Tricks Monday again, yeeah!

A while ago I was asked how I achieved such a nice texture in the background:

And finally, the day has come where I will show you the cool technique 😊 But I have to say that I'm not the great inventor here, I learned this technique by amazing Rae Missigman on a course I took with her.

Here is the final result of my canvas:

Below is a step by step how this canvas became like that:

I started with a canvas and some heavy gesso

Then, when the gesso was dry I glued down some pattern- and gelli printing paper with soft matte gel

After all was dry I went over with a dry brush and white gesso

I added more paper

and more gesso

Now it was time to add some colour

and more gesso

Then some stenciling

More gesso....

What I'm trying on here is to achieve a lot of texture by building layer on layer.

And now pam pam paaaaaaaammmm!!!! Here comes the cool technique:

A newspaper!  You can also use, for example, a page from a phone book - then the technique becomes even cooler. Unfortunately, I do not have phone book so I have to cope with a newspaper page. 

I find somewhere in the newspaper where I think it is a little interesting font. Greases a little soft mat gel on my canvas and places the newspaper page with the front down. Then I use an old credit card and scratch over the newspaper page several times. Then I remove the page  (after a second or so) and VOILA!... I hope... You may have to do it several times to get the desired result.

Now I need some more texture

I stamped all the flowers and the butterflies on tissue paper. I used the water brush to tear them out. (That was a Tips and tricks from last monday). The stamps is from Rubber Dance. Du can find them here

I think I needed even more color and maybe a little black and white too

I decided I needed a little drips and drops

Now it's time to glue down the butterflies and the flower I decided to use on my canvas.

Here is another tip for you: Use acrylic flow release when you want the paint drain / drip. Then you keep all the pigments in the paint and you don't make it completely transparent. Mix some acrylic flow release and several parts of water in a spray bottle, and you always have it handy to make drips and drops.

I colored the butterflies with Dina Wakley's Scribble sticks and Distress Crayons. I used the black and white for shadowing.

Then I decided that I needed even more color

Now I think my canvas is finish. With a little more colours and some shadowing - Voila! 

On this canvas there is layer by layer by layer by layer..... And that is what it makes it so interesting, don't you think?

Thank you so much for visiting! I will be back on the 1th of November with some inspiration for the new Challenge over at the Rubber Dance. And next monday there will be a new tips & Tricks Monday. Stay tuned!

Hugs, Anita

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Reversed canvas - a blogpost for Mixed Up Magazine Merchandise

Hello and welcome,

I have my first bloggpost for the Mixed Up Magazine blog today showing step by step how I did use a lot of pritables on a reversed canvas.

Here is a sneak peak:

Hop over to Mixed Up Magazine's blog to see the finish Project and a step by step how I did this canvas.

To get your hands of these wonderful printables visit Mixed Up Magazine's Etsy store here.


Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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Seek beauty - inspiration for a new challenge

Hello and welcome!

This month there is a new Challenge over at Mixed Media Monthly Challenge Blog.
Rubber Dance is sponsor for this Challenge and  I made this canvas for the inspiration.

On this canvas I've used the funny fungi stamp set from Rubber Dance.

Create a project that plays off of the color scheme in the challenge graphic above and you can win a $30 gift certificate to the Rubber Dance Online Store!!!

Thank you for visiting.

Hugs, Anita
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Litle doll in the frame be authentic one of a kind - A mechanical mixed media canvas

Hello and welcome,

today I want to show you a 3D mixed media canvas I've made. This was SO fun! A lot of layers and metallique. The paper Dolls is soften it up a bit. I really like the result and the play!

This is a canvas in size 17,5 x 23,5 cm. I have used a lot of embellishment that I have glued either with Soft Matte Gel or Glue Gun on my canvas first, 

then I paintet it all first with gesso

after gesso was dry I paintet all with Finnabairs acrylic Paint in metallique Emerald green and Deep waters.

Then I did some highlightning with white gesso for interest

I paintet the Prima resin frame with Finnabairs Paint in Opal Magic Violet-green first

I still think it was a bit too light so I used Lindy's spray in the color Baby Blue Eyes Aqua and sprayed a little here and there on the frame.

Now it looks better, and it's time to gather it all together on the canvas.

I painted some metal butterflies in the same color as the canvas and glue them down with glue gun.

The big butterfly is a butterfly that I have printed out from Pinterest, and used several layers of glossy accents, and then I have glued two small pieces of wire as antenna on the butterfly.

The Paper Dolls  in the frame is from Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Collection, the Words is quote chips from Tim Holtz.

The star and the number is Transparent Tiles, Alpha from Tim Holtz Idea-Ology.

The metal gear I do not know where comes from, I bought it on the internet a long time ago.

With this mixed media canvas I join the Challenge at:

Try it on Tuesday - Steampunk/Mechanical
Simon Says Stamp - Touchy Feely
Mixed Media Word - Anything Mixed media Goes


Thank you so much for visiting. Take care!

Hugs, Anita
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