Brightly Colour My World

Mixed Media Monday - Paint

2008-05-04T22:17:00.000-07:00

This is my contribution to Mixed Media Monday's "Paint" theme. I made this for a collaborative book. The birds are free-drawn and painted. I used pens and paints for outlining.

I just love Mixed Media Monday and thought this page was a good contribution. :) Hope you like it.

Mixed Media Monday

2008-03-22T18:14:00.000-07:00

I'm guest host for Mixed Media Monday and naturally I chose brights for the theme. I've been sick since committing to do it, and I have had no inspiration, everything I made turned out pretty horrific so I chose to use a page from my journal instead. My journal is a cross between things I write, whether they be poems, or tidbits, combined with experimenting with paint, mixed media, doodling and drawing. That way I get to keep some of the things I write (I usually just throw them out once I've filled an exercise book).

This one was painted bright pink with violet paint used for shadows and the hand is bright yellow and orange. The background was done using texture paste which was heated (from memory) until it bubbled and then flattened so it's textural without being able to be chipped and so it doesn't damage the page next to it. I'm not sure if the heart in the hand is a stamp or if I free hand drew it, which I think I might have.

Anyhow, it says, to save you from going cross-eyed trying to read it!

My heart it dances-sings-plays-
It wishes for things which it
Cannot have.
My heart it has the ability
To break but this does not
Mean that it is fragile
It means that my heart
Does not lend itself
To thoughtlessness.

Then on the inside it says Fragile Luggage?

I truly have Patty fever

2008-03-12T03:25:00.000-07:00

Here's an ATC I made for a swap. The lyrics "I need a little place in the sun sometimes" is from the song Moses, by Patty Griffin. I find myself using lyrics from her songs all the time. It could be that I'm seeing her in just over two weeks in Sydney, and I'm very excited. Check her out if you don't know her music. Her lyrics are fantastic. I've included her song "Rain" for you to listen to. :)

The swirls were done using a Charcol pencil freehand.

ATC

2008-03-11T03:10:00.000-07:00

Here is a little ATC I made for an Aussie list. The theme was fabric backgrounds, so I painted the background with paints and cut the houses and flowers out of calico and painted them, too. I hope you like it, the house is actually pink and orange, though the scan came out funky and looks rather red.

Reverse-side Canvas

2008-03-02T02:22:00.000-08:00

I was guest host on Mixed Media Monday and I submitted this piece. The theme was birds. The birds are from Somerset Studio's magazine and the eggs are actually real eggs. Two are duck eggs and one is a guinea fowl egg. I used to decorate eggs for many years, and I just love eggs and their shapes. The outside of the frame is thickly covered in texture paste, with other goodies embedded to give texture. Hope you like it. :)

Gorgeous music

2008-02-27T02:24:00.000-08:00

I really love the singer Patty Griffin. I think she's classed as Americana folk, or something equally confusing. I guess you could class her as country. She has a lovely voice, but her lyrics are amazing. Below is a clip of her live. I don't know if it's one of my favs of hers, but the lyrics get me.

Well he jumps in the taxi, headed for the sky
He's off to slay some demon dragonfly
And he looked at me, that long last time
Turned away again and I waved goodbye
In an envelope, inside his coat
Is a chain I wore, around my throat
Along with, a note I wrote
Said "I love you but, I don't even know why"

But darling, I wish you well
On your way to the wishing well
Swinging off of those gates of hell
But I can tell how hard you're trying
Just have that secret hope
sometimes all we do is cope
Somewhere on the steepest slope
There'll be an endless rope
and nobody crying.

Well a long night turns into a couple long years
Of me walkin' around, around this trail of tears
Where the very loud voices of my own fears
Is ringin' and ringin' in my ears
It says that love is long gone
Every move I make is all wrong
Says you never gave a damn for me
For anything, for anyone

But darling, I wish you well
On your way to the wishing well
Swinging off of those gates of hell
But I can tell how hard you're trying,
Just have that secret hope
Sometimes all we do is cope
Somewhere on the steepest slope there'll be an endless rope
And nobody crying.

May you dream you are dreaming, in a warm soft bed
And may the voices inside you that fill you with dread
Make the sound of thousands of angels instead
Tonight where you might be laying your head

But darling, I wish you well
On your way to the wishing well
Swinging off of those gates of hell
But I can tell how hard you're trying
Just have that secret hope
Sometimes all we do is cope
Somewhere on the steepest slope there'll be an endless rope
And nobody crying.
And nobody crying,
Nobody crying

Welcome!

2008-02-19T01:11:00.001-08:00

I hope that this blog can show some of my mixed media work, along with other things. This was one of the first things I made when I decided to try my hand at mixed media. It's a canvas board and the swirls are rub ons. The paint, if I recall correctly, is a lumiere.