Zentangles are fun and relaxing, you can create them anywhere anytime! Creating these Zentangles helps to increase your focus, and creativity and helps to promote personal well-being!
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Zentangle No.1 Forever Love
Value = the Lightness or Darkness of a colour.
To Brighten a colour paint its complementary colour beside it.
Complementary Colour – Combining a shade, tint or tone of one colour and the colour opposite on the colour wheel.
When two tones far apart from each other on the value scale are selected for example dark brown and cream, and these tones are painted right beside each other, sharing a common edge, then that pair of tones are said to be in HIGH CONTRAST.
High- Contrast pairs of colours appear to come forward, while Low-Contrast pairs of colours appear to recede
In this photo below …
1) I have mixed a blue background, and painted the korus with Van Dyke Brown and Titan Buff.
2) When paint is dry I have made up the background colour and mixed this with a glazing liquid and painted over the Korus that I wanted to appear to recede into the background.
Contrast colours with values …
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My Art Tip of the Week – Meths
What can you use to get rid of those troublesome bubbles that can appear in your Gel Mediums ?
When applying gel mediums for example Self leveling gel and sometimes you get little air bubbles all through the gel… just give them a quick spray of Meths…. and wolaaa the bubbles will disappear !
My Art Tip of the Week
What is and why would you use Gesso ?
Gesso is an acrylic undercoat / primer and comes in White or Black
Using Gesso – gives a ground to your surface, thus allowing a layer between the paint and substrate surface. ( which means you ultimately use less paint)
- Gesso is Very Opaque so covers up painting errors very well.
-Gesso needs to be used on any Wooden Board before painting and acts as a undercoat which protects the boards surface from any dampness that could be effected from applying straight paint.
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Transform - By Donna Steel
Playing around some of my Artwork Images and my own photography came up with this Image – Transform
cheers Donna
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Donna’s Art Tip of the Week – Titanium Vs Zinc White ?
My Art Tip of the Week - Sunday 8th January 2012
Tip 1. Titanium Vs Zinc White ?
Make sure when mixing White to a colour you use the right one for what you are wanting!
Titanium White is more opaque and when added to a colour changes that colour giving it more of a Pastel Tone.
Zinc White is more Translucent and when added to a colour just slightly tones down that original colour rather than changing the overall tone of it.
See Below
Titanium Vs Zinc White!
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Taylors Mistake - Mixed Media
Below is some close up photos of the rocks and houses in original artwork above.
close up rocks and houses
close up of houses
1020mm x 510mm
4 Sale
$5500.00
Taylors Mistake is one of my all time favourite places in Canterbury and love the lovely old iconic baches that are nestled into the side of the hill.
This artwork has been created using my own photography for inspiration and likeness, the beautiful Golden Mediums and Paints. This artwork comes with a Certificate of authenticity with the Artworks number and products used to create it.
For more information please contact Donna at donnasteel1@xtra.co.nz
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I can’t believe how fast 2011 has gone by, especially down here in Christchurch! I must admit it has been a year I really would not want to repeat in a hurray!!
2012 will be hear before we know it! I am currently busy preparing next years Art Workshop and Classes !
Because of the Earthquakes this year the venue I was hiring has been used by Civil Defence and the Council while their buildings have been repaired.
So it looks like as from March 2012 this venue will be back in action. Yay!! So I am busy working preparing some up coming Art Workshops!
Workshops will be held on Saturdays, there will be a minimum and maximum number of places in these workshops and bookings will be essential.
Just to give you a little heads up on what some of the up coming workshops will be on ….
Exploring Colour and Colour Mixing- Looking at the different pigments Organic vs In-Organic, Metalic and Reflective Pigments, including Interference Colours
Types of Acrylic Paint – Fluid, Air Brush, Heavy Body and Open Acrylic
Mediums - (Gel) Creating Texture using a wide variety of Gel Mediums
Mediums – (Paste) Creating Texture using a wide variety of Pastes
Transfers – We will look at different techniques for transfering images into artworks.
Skins – Explore what acrylic skins are and what you can do with them, including looking at digital transfers onto skins.
Collage- Mixed media collage
Substractive techniques - engraving, Layering, sanding back acrylic surfaces and using different ways to work back into your artworks giving great layering effects.
Pours- Using different Mediums
Acrylic Ancaustic
Drawing, and resists with acrylic
Drawing Surfaces and what to use on your artworks to allow you to draw, Grounds, Additives
Working with Open Acrylics
Learning different Painting Techniques
Preparing your canvas to paint- supports, priming surfaces, and looking at different tools you can work with to create effects.
Acrylic Painting – using mixed media
Abstracts – using mixed media
Landscapes – using mixed media
Planning Artworks and looking at Perspective
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I believe that art is a great way for Children and Young people to express themselves!
I am really pleased to announce some EXCITING NEWS !!
Young Teen Art Classes at Papanui High 6-8pm Thursday nights 2012!!
Term 1 2012 Papanui High School
Art –The Next Step- Painting and Mixed Media for your Teens
Learning how to create your own works of Art while experimenting and playing with Acrylic Paints and Mediums.
This class will provide an opportunity to discover your own creativity by exploring some exciting and unique forms of acrylic paints and mediums. You will grow in confidence as you learn product knowledge and different techniques to create your own unique works of art!
This Class would be great for Teens that love art at school, that enjoy art but maybe bored and need some challenges, teens that would like to expand their knowledge and explore different forms of paints and mediums.
.1) Learn the differences between acrylic paints and mediums such as Paints, Gels, Pastes, Grounds and Additives
2) -Explore Colour: Modern vs Mineral pigments and experiment with colour mixing.
3) – Look at different forms of textures such as fibre glass, papers, ribbons, textures, pastes, gels, and additives .
4) – Experiment with different painting techniques such as painting, washes and impasto painting .
5) – Ideas and Composition – Working on how to come up with ideas and then how to translate them into your own unique works of art.
For more information of starting dates and prices etc… please contact Papanui High Schools, continuing education department!
http://intranet.papanui.school.nz/course/view.php?id=127
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