Art Journal Page 3

 Some "springtangle", using my Derwent Graphik paint pens. I did have some trouble with leaking and had to try to cover up a few blobs with the white. The black really started giving me trouble, maybe because I was using it for so long. A few other colours leaked as well. Later I read the tip about holding the pen upright and pumping it a few times. It might be a good idea to do that when starting, and again if using the same colour for some time. Sometimes there was a bit of warning when the paint would start to flow a little faster, but other times it was very sudden. You can see a couple of black splotches at the bottom that I didn't bother fixing. It just dripped from the pen.

And if I was to do this again, I would do the black lines last instead of first.

Easter Eggs

It has been years since I last made Easter eggs (pysanky). They are very time consuming, it takes all afternoon to do two. It was always hard for me to put other things aside but this year I decided it was time to do some again. I got 12 done, though one kind of got messed up when I tried to use Folkart's acrylic gloss on it, the one on the right side with the red and white cross in the middle. Perhaps it was because it is water based. When I started smearing it on it was picking up colour so I wiped it off but wiped too much and removed some colour from one side of the egg. But I have ideas for how to still make good use of it.

My mom already bought two of these. The rest will be for summer craft sales.

I also tried something new. I painted Easter eggs on poster board with my Derwent Graphik paint pens and made polymer clay bases and turned them into pendants and earrings.

My First Mixed Media Canvas

The nail polish picture is painted with acrylics on a 10x8" canvas and then I added texture around it with stencils and modelling paste and also just paint. Then I started adding things like metal flowers, painted fabric flowers, buttons, resin pieces with the actual nail polish in them, a watch face, a mirror pendant, and some beads. Then I decorated a 14x11" wrapped canvas and put the 10x8 canvas board inside the back of it to frame it. It took quite a few days to put it all together.

I also recently finished a digital painting of a polar bear. Prints are available on Fine Art America and Pixels.com. This is one of the polar bears that live in the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg and his name is Storm.

http://pixels.com/featured/polar-bear-michelle-moroz-chymy.html