Canvas, puppets and a litle story from Spain - We are the hero of our own story of art

Hello and welcome!

This summer me and my family spent 14 days in South Spain, in a litle town called Albir. We had some excursions around in other cities, including Altea. And in the evenings around the beautiful church on the hill, there were many markets and lovely little art shops. There was an artist who sold marionette puppets. He made the puppets, while his wife sewed the clothes for them. The girl puppet just spoke to me when we - me and my husband passing by. I saw her in the wonderfully vibrant eyes and she talked to me. Can you imagine?

I just had to buy her and bring her home with me. Then I saw another puppet. He was so - should I said creepy (?), that he became beautiful. He spoke to me to. He also want to go home to Norway with us.

The artist is Begoña García og Miguel Lopez de Aguileta who has their own small business as they call Etcetera Marionetas. They have made those beautiful puppets since 1991. Each puppet is unique, hand-molded paper pulp, painted with watercolors and oil paintings and exclusive costumes for each piece. I must admit; I falled in love ♥

They were carefully wrapped both in bubble wrap and brown paper. The brown paper was a bit special, as you can see

so well at home again I wanted to create something where I could use the beautiful wrapping paper and here is the result:

What do you think?
I've used the same colors as the puppets, and when we have decided where and on what they will be resting on, the canvas will hang among them..... I think....

Here is a step by step for this peace of art:

I crumpled the paper a bit and glued it on canvas.

Took my brush and gesso wash all over the canvas and stamp some image here and there.

I've used Archival ink for stamping because this ink is waterproof when dry.

I stamped the face image on tissue paper and glue it down with Matt Gel Medium, I did the same with the butterflies and the clown. The butterflies are from different tissues as I carefully cut out and glued down with Matt Gel Medium.

The butterfly on the left hand side is one of Tim Holtz tissue paper, and the clown is a cut from a design paper.

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I mixed up modeling paste with something purple sand.

and with help from a stencil I made some patterns here and there

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A while ago I bought a stack of old notes from an acquaintance on facebook and I think that just this piece by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsom suits perfect for this use - "Just som jeg favned dit liv" - "Just as I embraced your life." That's exatly what this puppet artist did, he embraced my life with his unique art. Well, lets go on :)

I stamped this centence on the gesso washed notes with black Archival Ink and cut them out and used some Distress Ink Black Soot around the edges.

Then I glued down all the cut outs butterflies and some hearts from the same wrapping paper. I've used my white Posca pen and some Perfect Pearls and make some dots on the butterfly wings and body. And some black splashes with my black Posca pen.

I painted this frame with Dylusions Paint in color Pomegranate Seed.

and used some adhesive pads to attach it to the clown.

As you may see from the picture I have used Inktense pencil and water brush to create shadows and white Gelatos to make some highligths around the butterlies and the hearts.

Here's some close ups both of the puppets and the canvas:

And here is a picture of me and the puppet artist in Altea, Spain:

WE ARE THE HERO OF OUR OWN STORY OF ART

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

I very much appreciate it if you leave a comment and maybe tell me what you think of the puppets and/or my canvas, inspired by the puppets and the wrapping paper.

The puppets is from Etce'tera

The frame is from Hjerteboden

The word stamp "ART"is from Rubber Dance

Letter stamp "O" and "F" is from Rubber Dance

The yellow inked background stamp is from Rubber Dance

The butterflies is from different napkins. The stencil, Tissue paper, stamp "We are the Hero...." and Face stamp is from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonomous.

Hugs, Anita

♥

Canvas, puppetS and a litle story from Spain - We are the hero of our own story of art

Hello and welcome!

This summer me and my family spent 14 days in South Spain, in a litle town called Albir. We had some excursions around in other cities, including Altea. And in the evenings around the beautiful church on the hill, there were many markets and lovely little art shops. There was an artist who sold marionette puppets. He made the puppets, while his wife sewed the clothes for them. The girl puppet just spoke to me when we - me and my husband passing by. I saw her in the wonderfully vibrant eyes and she talked to me. Can you imagine?

I just had to buy her and bring her home with me. Then I saw another doll. He was so - should I said creepy (?), that he became beautiful. He spoke to me to. He also want to go home to Norway with us.

The artist is Begoña García og Miguel Lopez de Aguileta who has their own small businessas they call Etcetera Marionetas. They have made those beautiful puppets since 1991. Each puppet is unique, hand-molded paper pulp, painted with watercolors and oil paintings and exclusive costumes for each piece. I must admit; I falled in love ♥

They were carefully wrapped both in bubble wrap and brown paper. The brown paper was a bit special, as you can see

so well at home again I wanted to create something where I could use the beautiful wrapping paper and here is the result:

What do you think?
I've used the same colors as the puppets, and when we have decided where and on what they will be resting on, the canvas will hang among them..... I think....

Here is a step by step for this peace of art:

I crumpled the paper a bit and glued it on canvas.

Took my brush and gesso wash all over the canvas and stamp some image here and there.

I've used Archival ink for stamping because this ink is waterproof when dry.

I stamped the face image on tissue paper and glue it down with Matt Gel Medium, I did the same with the butterflies and the clown. The butterflies are from different tissues as I carefully cut out and glued down with Matt Gel Medium.

The butterfly on the left hand side is one of Tim Holtz tissue paper, and the clown is a cut from a design paper.

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I mixed up modeling paste with something purple sand.

and with help from a stencil I made some patterns here and there

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A while ago I bought a stack of old notes from an acquaintance on facebook and I think that just this piece by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsom suits perfect for this use - "Just som jeg favned dit liv" - "Just as I embraced your life." That's exatly what this puppet artist did, he embraced my life with his unique art. Well, lets go on :)

I stamped this centence on the gesso washed notes with black Archival Ink and cut them out and used some Distress Ink Black Soot around the edges.

Then I glued down all the cut outs butterflies and some hearts from the same wrapping paper. I've used my white Posca pen and some Perfect Pearls and make some dots on the butterfly wings and body. And some black splashes with my black Posca pen.

I painted this frame with Dylusions Paint in color Pomegranate Seed.

and used some adhesive pads to attach it to the clown.

As you may see from the picture I have used Inktense pencil and water brush to create shadows and white Gelatos to make some highligths around the butterlies and the hearts.

Here's some close ups both of the puppets and the canvas:

And here is a picture of me and the puppet artist in Altea, Spain:

WE ARE THE HERO OF OUR OWN STORY OF ART

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

I very much appreciate it if you leave a comment and maybe tell me what you think of the puppets and/or my canvas, inspired by the puppets and the wrapping paper.

The puppets is from Etce'tera

The frame is from Hjerteboden

The word stamp "ART"is from Rubber Dance

Letter stamp "O" and "F" is from Rubber Dance

The yellow inked background stamp is from Rubber Dance

The butterflies is from different napkins. The stencil, Tissue paper, stamp "We are the Hero...." and Face stamp is from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonomous.

Hugs, Anita

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A canvas for celebraiting

Hello and welcome!

Finaly I'm back - back were I belong, in my studio making art, and stamp my toughts away. 

I made this canvas board to celebrate that I still am a design team member of Rubber Dance. So I've used a lot of Rubber Dance stamps on this canvas.

Here is some Close ups of details:

Butterflies is from the set Antique Botanicals

The flowers is from the set Textured Flowers
and the ''body'' is from the set Sew Sweet

The sentence is from the set Affirmations 

The cute little hearts I've got from Bibi, world's best boss! ♥

The background stamp is from the set Textured Flowers

Girl on the bike is a napkin

I just love those butterflies, they are so beautiful!


That was that for now, folks! I will soon come back and show you a litle strange kind of art and a beautiful story. Stay tuned!
Here is a litle sneak peek:

 

Thank you for visiting, and please leave me a comment below! If you have any questions do not be afraid to ask.

Hugs, Anita
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A concret jewelry with Rubber Dance stamps

Hello and welcome

Now I've done something I've never done before, I have made jewelry - of concrete..... yep, you read correctly, jewelry of concrete. This was fun! I said to my self the same as my childhod hero, Pipi Langstrømpe once said; this I have never done before so I can surely :-)

After the jewelry was dried (about one day) I stamped with black Archival ink the beautiful Rubber Dance Texture Flowers and painted with bright yellow paint in the midle of the flower. Dots around the edge with my white pen.

So now you can see that Rubber Dance stamps also can be used to decorate Jewelry, bambambammmmm...... :-)

I've used this month's colors at Rubber Dance August Challenge. Hop over and join the Challenge - you can win awesome stamps. Read more here.

So, that was that for today folks. I will soon come back and show a canvas where I among others have used napkins, Paint, and stamps of course :-)

Here is a litle sneak peek:

Thank you for visiting. Please leave a comment below, I very much appreciated it!

Hugs, Anita♥

Sprøe fugler med spreke farger

Heisann dere,

i dag tenkte jeg at jeg skulle skrive på mitt morsmål, som er norsk. Det er egentlig mest fordi jeg i dag har laget en liten inspirasjon for Hjerteboden. Hjerteboden er en norsk hobby butikk og i dag har jeg altså gleden av å vise det jeg har laget ved hjelp av produkter man kan få kjøpt i nettbutikken til Hjerteboden.

Dette er en Manilla Tag i størrelse #10.

Jeg begynte med å påføre litt farge i bakgrunnen med Distress Ink - Broken China, Dusty Concord og Wild Honey.
Dernest fant jeg frem stencilen fra Tim Holtz som heter Holiday Knit og laget litt mønster her og der med Distress Ink i fargen Seedless Preserves.

Jeg stemplet Crazy Birds på en ny Manilla Tag, fargela disse med Distress Ink, klippet ut og limte på Tagen min. Jeg stemplet først fuglene på tagen for å få med alle detaljer, som de søte små føttene og krøllen på halen og håret før jeg da limte på de utklipte fuglene.

Rundt kanten av tagen brukte jeg Distress Ink i fargen Gathered Twigs. Jeg tok litt vann i hånden og knipset dråper litt her og der på tagen. Jeg limte på Observations, samt knyttet et bånd i hullet på toppen. Og voila der var tagen ferdig. Denne kan jeg selvsagt bare ha sånn som den er eller jeg kan velge å lime den inn i min Art Journal som en del av noe annet. Alt er mulig.

Håper du likte tagen min og at jeg ga deg litt inspirasjon til å lage noe du også. Husk å bli med på månedens utfordring over hos Hjerteboden bloggen som denne måneden er "Alt er lov".

Tusen takk for at du stakk innom! Med ønske om en riktig god sommer ☺

Klem fra Anita
♥