Friday 30 November 2018

My teabag art for today - extreme sport Kayaking

My teabag art for today is a man kayaking.  This is a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and prisma watercolor pencils.

Thursday 29 November 2018

My teabag art for today - inspired by the beautiful hardworking women of India

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with prisma watercolor pencil and black ink pen.

Wednesday 28 November 2018

My teabag art for today is a Southwest scene.

My teabag art for the day is a southwest scene.  This is a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and Prisma watercolor pencils.

Tuesday 27 November 2018

My teabag art for today - Ha Ha She looks like Wilma Flintstone

My teabag art for today.  LOL, Unintentionally she looks like Wilma Flintstone.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso, added patterned tissue to the bacground with matte medium, more white gesso, then sprayed Heidi Swapp Chartreuse Color shine through a stencil.  I drew the paper doll on watercolor paper and then made her bodice and skirt out of cardstock.  The skirt was made with Sizzix Thinlits die set Funky Floral 3

Monday 26 November 2018

My teabag art for today is of a group of racehorses.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and prisma watercolor pencils.

Sunday 25 November 2018

My teabag art for today are some sheep in a field.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black permanent ink pen.

Saturday 24 November 2018

My teabag art for today - Abstract Poppies

My teabag art for today is an abstract of Poppies.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with prisma watercolor pencils.

Friday 23 November 2018

My teabag art for today.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and prisma watercolor pencils.

Thursday 22 November 2018

My teabag art for today begged to be on a journal page

My teabag art for today was just begging to be an Art journal page.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and was covered with bits of newspaper including the top title.  The lady was drawn using the stabilo All pencil and a little color was added with watercolor.  I used a mixture of Dina Wakley and Dyan Reaveley acrylic paints with Dina stencils and masks on the background.  I added Kaisercraft texture netting die cut and die cut arrow.

Wednesday 21 November 2018

My teabag art for today is a fairy.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso.  I added torn bits of patterned tissue paper with Matte medium and a bit of paper was hanging off of the edge that looked like a wing so the fairy was born.  She was painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and white gel pen.

Tuesday 20 November 2018

My teabag art for today was inspired by a visit to our favorite beach in Rainbow Bay

My teabag art for today was inspired by our favorite beach at Rainbow Bay on the Gold Coast.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with Prisma Watercolor pencils and black ink pen.

Monday 19 November 2018

My teabag art for today is of a whale

My teabag art for today is of a whale.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache and details added with black ink pen and colored pencil.

Sunday 18 November 2018

My teabag art for today is a Surfer girl.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and prisma watercolor pencils.

Saturday 17 November 2018

My teabag art for today is supposed to be a vintage Ford Thunderbird.

My teabag art for today - ok this one turned out a little wonky.  This was supposed to be a vintage Ford Thunderbird?  Oh well.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and Prisma watercolor pencils.

Friday 16 November 2018

My teabag art for today - Abstract Flowers

My teabag art for today - Abstract Flowers.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.

Thursday 15 November 2018

My teabag art for today was inspired by the song by Guy Sebastian "Get Along"

My teabag art for today was inspired by the Guy Sebastian song "Get Along" and just needed to be on an art journal page.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso.  Added pieces of book text and gelli print paper to the background with matte medium.  The background faces were stamped on tissue paper with Dina Wakley Funky Faces stamp set, painted with acrylic paints and added with matte medium.  I added some burlap, pink cotton crochet yarn and then the figure from Dina Wakley stamp set Abstract figures was stamped on another gelli print and torn out.  Added that to the top and stitched the title on my sewing machine.  This was added to a journal page that had paint off of stencils from a previous journal page.  The netting and honeycomb diecuts were from Tim Holtz mixed media die sets.

Wednesday 14 November 2018

My teabag art for today. This painting was inspired by a photo I saw when shopping for a pair of jeans online!

My teabag art for today was inspired by a photo I saw when shopping online for a pair of jeans.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso.  The background was created with Tim Holtz distress inks (picket fence, vintage photo, rusty hinge and black soot) and stencils and the girl was painted with watercolor and gouache and details added with black ink pen and prisma watercolor pencils.

Tuesday 13 November 2018

My teabag art for today. This was an attempt at a painting I had seen in a video.

My teabag art for today.  If you ever saw the video going around of the Italian man painting on glass with his fingers and acrylic paints - this was inspired by one of the paintings he did.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso and painted with acrylic paints.

Monday 12 November 2018

My teabag art for today was a commissioned piece - the different faces of Moosh!


My teabag art for today - these were commissioned pieces of the different faces of Moosh!  These were done on used teabags, primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with polychromo pencils and Staedtler pens.





My entry for Dina Wakley October #showusyourmedia challenge

My entry for October Dina Wakley #showusyourmedia challenge:  "Paint is only wasted when it stays in the tube-Just make".  So this was my page done in my Dina Wakley journal on one of the cotton rag pages.  Products used:
Dina Wakley lemon, sky, lime acrylic paints
Dina spaced dots, viney, and jumbled numbers stencils
Dina Words in faces stamp set
Dina Scribble Sticks on the face
Carabelle Studio Stamp set SA60210
Heidi Swapp HSO1130 stamp set
Kaisercraft die "netting"
Cottage Cuts die "Retro Tag Toppers"
Spellbinders fence die
Black Liquid Acrylic
Strip from a gelli print (just to cover the Dyan Reaveley spray inks coming through from the other side!!)

Sunday 11 November 2018

My teabag art for today was another commissioned piece of "Tia"

My teabag art for today was another commissioned piece of "Tia".  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with polychromo pencils, white gel pen and black ink pen.

Saturday 10 November 2018

My teabag art for today was a commissioned piece of a girl training border collies

My teabag art for today is another commissioned piece of a girl training border collies.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen, white gel pen and Prisma watercolor pencils.

Friday 9 November 2018

My teabag art for today was a commissioned piece of a football player

My teabag art for today.  This was a commissioned piece.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with Prisma watercolor pencils.

Thursday 8 November 2018

My teabag art for today. This was a commission piece.

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and white gel pen and Prisma watercolor pencils.

Wednesday 7 November 2018

My teabag art for today playing around with the Elegant Writers

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and I played around with the red, black, and green elegant writers and added water to them to let them bleed and then added watercolor as well.  A few details added with a black permanent ink pen.

Tuesday 6 November 2018

My teabag art for today

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso.  I drew the image and then stenciled around it with Distress oxides and Black soot distress ink.  The face was painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details were added with black ink pen, Prisma watercolor pencils and white gel pen.

Monday 5 November 2018

My teabag art for today in watercolor and gouache of a Kookaburra

My teabag art for today was inspired by a Kookaburra that visited our clothes line the other morning.  I love hearing their loud, continuous call.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.

Sunday 4 November 2018

My seahorse teabag art for the day.

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso and painted with watercolor.  Details added with white gel pen and black ink pen.

Saturday 3 November 2018

This is a drawing of a horse in pastel pencils





This is a drawing of a palomino horse.  It has been drawn on Kraft Card and colored with pastel pencils.  It is a 5X7.  Details added with white gel pen and black permanent ink pen.

My art journal entry for the November Dina Wakley Facebook challenge.

My entry for the Dina Wakley Facebook November challenge to use your favorite Dina products.  The background on this page started off with leftovers pressed onto the background from the Dina "Viney" and "Spaced Dots" stencils from another project.  I added some more circles with the Dina Scribbly Circles stamp set.  I used torn pieces of old gelli plate papers, a honeycomb diecut using Tim Holtz mixed media die and some leftover pieces of burlap.  The bee was colored with my scribble sticks.

My teabag art for today is a young girl walking in a field of wildflowers.

My teabag art for today is a young girl walking in a field of wildflowers.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso and painted with gouache and watercolor.  Details added with Prisma watercolor pencils, black ink pen and white gel pen.

Friday 2 November 2018

My teabag art for today is a Swan.

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with Prisma watercolor pencils, white gel pen, and black ink pen.

Thursday 1 November 2018

My teabag art for today is another Halloween themed piece

My teabag art for today.  Sorry - had to do another Halloween one.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso.  The circle was painted with acrylics and the rest with gouache and watercolor.  Details added with Prisma watercolor pencils and black permanent ink pen.  The fence die cut was a spellbinders die and the title was from a stamp set by Dimensions Crafts called Scary Words.