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

Music is Silence Coloured In...... by Cindy Porter

Hi everyone, it's Cindy back with you today to share my project with you
"Music is Silence Coloured In"

This journal page is my take on the February Soul Sisters Moodboard Challenge....  now this is a challenge worth having a go at... your chance to win a $50 voucher from Art and Soul Studio, seriously who wouldn't want to be in that!!

So here is the Mood Board for the challenge....

Was a different colour palette for me to work with... a bit of a challenge... but still lots of fun...
Here is a video of my process...

Here's the list of products I used:

XPress It Mixed Media Journal
Tim Holtz Woven Stencil
Tim Holtz Diamonds Stencil
Urban Chic Stamp Set
Mini Ornates Stamp Set
Distress Oxide Peeled Paint
Distress Oxide Black Soot
Distress Oxide Iced Spruce
Distress Oxide Antique Linen
Golden Fluid Acrylic Raw Sienna
Golden Fluid Acrylic Sap Green Hue
Derivan Matisse Gesso
Ranger Mini Collage Glue Stick
Vivid Ultra Metallics Cashmere
Stamperia Music Stencil: Stave
Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer
Art Basics Silicone Brush
Dylusions Old School Alpha Stencil

till next time
Happy Creating
xC

Art Journal Page - by Lynn Good

Morning :)  Lynn here to share an art journal page that I have created using the fabulous products from the Art and Soul Store found here 

Life in accounting is hectic in the month of July and this page represents how I have felt this month!

I began by putting random paint marks down on my art journal page.  I have used Golden High Flow Paints and Golden Acrylics.

I added highlights

and then added more colour

I then used a Scrap Fx stencil/mask  to create the people by blanking out the areas with brown and black acrylic ink.

Once I had the people in there, I added dimension by using a white paint pen to outline them and black distress ink to further enhance them. 

Here are some close ups:

the words were added using a alpha stamp and white big brush pitt pen.

Thanks for stopping by and til next time - Happy Crafting :)

Background Technique by Karen Arribas

Hi Soul Sisters I thought I'd change it up a bit and do a couple of backgrounds which can be used for scrap booking or as a background for a new painting. I have introduced a number of different inks and sprays to show the effects you can achieve by combining them together.

I like to do video so if you like to see the techniques in more detail you can click on the link here:
https://youtu.be/1mvvlCjQCEw

Most of the materials can be purchased from the the Art and Soul Studio Art shop: https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/

Materials used:

Golden High Flow Acrylic - Teal, Green Gold
Dylusions spray - Lemon Zest, Vibrant Turquoise
Derwent Inktense blocks
Liquitex ink - Turquoise Deep
FW artist Acrylic ink - Turquoise, Brilliant Yellow
Ranger ink pad - Wild Orchid, Emerald Isle
Kaiser craft script stamp
Modelling Paste

I hope you enjoyed the lesson and it would be great to see your creations on the FB page!

Soulful project by Lynn Good

Good morning, Lynn here to share an art journal layout I did for the soulful project this month.  The quote this month is:

I have created a dreamcatcher which I find are beautiful but mine has broken leaves - but to me it is still beautiful.  I have used the Golden Heavy Body Paints in this project.

I have used my Ranger Dina Wakley Media art journal.  I had a page that I had used to wipe off  excess paint from my brayer after making the fold out album - no paint goes to waste!!! I used a Dylusion Stencil - Old School Alpha Large and Golden Heavy Paint Iridescent Copper with a sponge

On the other half of the page I used Quinacridone Nickle Azo Gold.

Again nothing goes to waste - flip the stencil over and wipe it onto another blank art journal page.

I stamped onto some heavy watercolour paper feathers from the 49 & Market Feather Stamp set and paint the two golden paints and a contrasting yellow in the Vivid Ultra metallics.

I painted a circle with the Golden paints on my art journal page.

From here I glued down my feathers, added some black and white marks with Posca pens and wrote the quote around the circle. 

Here are some close ups:

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have time to have a go at this months challenge quote.

Til next time - Happy Crafting :)