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Portraits – Pulled Art

Inspired by a tutortial by Mystele via www.willowingart.org

Portraits Pulled Art -  I have started with a blank canvas as you would say in this case a blank sheet of  watercolour paper .

Pulled art simply implies to what image you can pull from the background… I have written words, scribbled and made heaps of different shapes onto the paper, (using, pencils and pastels and acrylic paint) and then continued to do this with several layers until I am happy with what I see…  then I have Pulled a Portrait out of the shapes that have appeared through the top layer…  You can pull any picture out of this, but I am just working on creating all different types of portraits at this stage so I am looking for any type of facial features I can see, like a nose lips eyes etc… so here are a couple of my Not so Beautiful Beauties …..

Green with Envy

Going around in Circles

Portraits …Sketches

Inspired by Tam www.willowing.org

fascinate me… so I have started to spend some time looking at creating different types of faces with different mediums… this is my first Sketch of a Basic Face with Graphite ( which is simply a Pencil!) ….

Pencil sketch

Pencil Sketch

Art tip of the week- Gesso…

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.

“Transform “Playing around with transfering My Painting and Photography images to create…..

Transform - By Donna Steel

Playing around some of my Artwork Images and my own photography came up with this Image – Transform

cheers Donna

Check out my new Weekly – Art tip of the Week! Tip 1.

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!

Taylors Mistake – Mixed Media 4 Sale

 Below is some close up photos of the rocks and houses in original artwork above.