Let your passing be our lesson by Karen Arribas

Todays lesson was based on the recent passing of the last male northern white Rhino. It saddened me so much I wanted to do a painting as a remembrance to this amazing animal.

The techniques for todays lesson can be used a number of ways such as a painting, jewellery (using the rhino head) or even a t-shirt which is what I've decided to do.

 1. Firstly I drew a rough picture of a rhino head onto tracing paper.

2. I then traced more rhino heads and cut them out to make a pile.

3.With the pile of rhino heads I then stuck them all together to make a 3D image. I then used Jane Davenport watercolours Neutral palette to paint the Rhino head. 

4. I then used darker colours for the contrast and coloured pencils for definition. I drew a circle in the background as I wanted to frame the head in some way.

5. Next step was to create some flowers I decided to use FW acrylic ink in turquoise and deep blue for the background to give it contrast.

6. I then used my fingers rather than brushes for the flowers because I like the natural results it produces. I used mainly KAISERcolour paints in a number of different shades of pinks, yellow and orange with dashes of white. 

7. I used the FW Acrylic artist ink to paint a background. 

8. I then added the flowers around the rim of the circle.

This is the final image and I wanted to see what it would look like on a t-shirt so I used a t-shirt mock up and used photoshop for the placement. 

(this is a free stock t-shirt from https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/15-free-psd-templates-mockup-t-shirt-designs)

Materials used:

Watercolour paper

Jane Davenport Watercolours - Neutral set

FW Acrylic Artist ink - Turquoise and Prussian Blue

KAISERcolour Acrylic paint - Candy, Pretty Pink, Hot pink, Magenta, Blossom and orange. 

Golden fluid Acrylic - Hansa yellow light

All materials can be purchased from the Art and Soul studio online shop at: https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/

Thank you to every one who has enjoyed my lessons. I hope you enjoyed this one too and I'll see you all in the soul sisters FB group. 

xx

December Soulful Project by Karen Arribas

Hi and welcome to my lesson for this months soulful project. I have based it on this months quote:

To Begin with I used the Jane Davenport pink acrylic and spread it sporadically over the page. I kept the brush quite dry as I didn't want to cover the whole page. 

I then used FW artist acrylic ink red and yellow. They are really vibrant and permanent when they dry. I spread it from the bottom and fanned it out over the page to give the impression of fire.

I then drew black around the flames with a stabilo all black pencil and a black coloured pencil. I then used the JD pink acrylic and white Gesso to put splatters over the flames to add more texture.

You can use a cut out from a magazine like I have here or you can simply draw onto the page. I liked this picture and it went well with what I was wanting to achieve. I covered her dress with black gesso. 

Once the picture is stuck down to the background ( I used Liquitex Matte gel medium) I covered her hair and body with gesso (Liquitex gesso) I would recommend a watered down thin layer and then build as you need a bit of transparency for the face.

I then covered her hair with Jane davenport acrylic paint - light orange from the portrait set. I didn't cover it completely just parts of the hair. I collaged some butterflies and leaf onto her dress, I also used a white sharpie to draw some vines. 

Finally I shaded some of her face, legs and arms. Coloured pencil red, yellow and orange was used on the hair and pencil for the shading. I added a feather from graphic 45 seasons collection to her hair also. 

And there you have it! I hope you enjoyed the lesson feel free to ask any questions and I look forward to seeing your work in the facebook group. 

All the materials can be purchased from the Art and Soul Studio online store: https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/

Karen xx