Testing new paints by Prima Marketing and new skills of painting flowers with Donna Downey

Hello Arty Friends:)          

     Today I am testing new 'Impasto Painst' designed by Finnabair and Prima Marketing:) These are acrylic heavy body paints with creamy consistency and reach colour. I absolutely LOVE them. They are just perfect if you want opaque effect, very useful for adding layers in mixed media projects. They are thick and creamy and the coverage is very good. If you apply them with palette knife you can create very thick 3D texture.They also have beautiful color palette and my favourite of course is 'Jade' which is beautiful turquoise. There are also few shades or stunning pinks:) I am hoping that there will be new colours in the future. I would love to see indigo gray and some cream:) I bought them in Mixed Media Place And the cute flowers on my fairy's dress??? I learned how to paint them in  Donna Downey 's 'Floral abstract' online workshop. Donna is brilliant teacher and make it so easy to learn. I love her techniques and if you wanted to learn how to paint cute blooming flowers, this is the best workshop to learn! Link here: https://www.donnadowney.com/collections/online-workshops

Winter sparkle

Hello Dear Friends:)

These are my new paintings with little winter sparkle;) I used beloved glass glitter and  mica flakes by Finnabair, Prima and fantastic acrylics by Daily Art. I love this colour combo for this winter:)

xx

Sylwia

TandiArt Exhibition in Galway:)

Hello Arty Souls!

Just to let you know that I have my art exhibition in my favourite tea shop in The Secret Garden Galway till 8th of July. It is all about fairies, dwarfs and whimsical houses.  

Pop over if you are in town!:) 

You can also purchase there my cups and bracelets:)

Fantastic tea and treats in the Secret Garden Galway, William Street, Galway

xx

Love 

Sylwia

Watercolor Fairy-girl

 Hello Arty Souls!

I wanted to show you my recent girl inspired by Danielle Donaldson who is amazing artist and illustrator. I just adore her way of painting girls in watercolor. I wanted to challenge myself a little bit more and I started experimenting with watercolors. However I found them so much more difficult then acrylics. The difference is that its harder to correct mistake! You can't just paint over with another layer of watercolour. So I would say the process of using watercolor paints needs to be a little bit planned.

What I also learnt from Danielle is that I can use white background with bravery:) And I can play more with clots details.

I will continue to explore watercolours and I will keep you posted with my progress:D

 

 

 

 

I would also like to enter Drawing challenge with Mixed Media Place

 

' Embrace your Dream' mixed media on wood for Cozy Challenge with Finnabair + video tutorial

Hello Arty Souls!

Today I wanted to share with you my new project inspired by Finnbair  and her Creative Design team:)

I decided to enter her Finnabair's Cozy Challenge as winter just came and I love to feel wooly and cozy:) And also those colours are outside of my comfort zone (as I always use very vibrant colours). But we need to challenge ourselves sometimes, right? :)

So I decided to work on wood, as it has a cozy texture already:) I used many materials by Prima and Finnbair and also some materials by Lindy's Gang Stamp, Docrafts, 13arts, FaberCastell.

I also did a video! (scroll down to the bottom of this post)

I created my cozy moodboard for inspiration. I use the images from internet but also in the bottom left corner is a journal spread of my friend Marta, who is also a team member of Finnabair's DT:) Her art work is out of this world!

As I am in love with fairies, I decided to add the little one:)

And there is a video tutorial:) Enjoy!

Fairy life- mixed media painting

Hello Arty Souls!

This is my recent painting on 10x10 canvas, which was inspired by Scrap Around The World October Challenge

This was the mood board for the challenge: Vibrant & Glamorous.

What inspired me to create this painting was a combination of gold and purple and also a butterfly :) I sprinkled this lovely combination with a little bit of magic and decided to incorporate a little fairy and its sparkly dust:)

I hope you enjoyed it!

Love,

Sylwia

Another art exchange which warmed my heart..

Hello arty souls!

I wanted to show you, what an amazing gift I got from my friend, very creative soul - Marta:)

Marta's creativity is endless and you need to visit her blog here!

She made me an amazing journal cover!!! I love it so much!!! 

Colours and texture are so beautiful...

And this is what I made for Marta:) Actually for her little girl Emily, who loves red colour, dogs and guinea pigs ;)

Thank you Marta for  this Art Exchange. I will treasure this art journal forever!!!

Love,

Sylwia

Live life in full colour

Hey Art Souls!

Recently I have an obsession with 3D Flowers. I absolutely love flowers made by Prima Marketing. I bought few of them recently and they look fabulous in mixed media projects:)

For this project I also used house hold items: 

-old credit card for spreading the paint

- pen's lid to make small circles in a background

- soft wire (I found it in my boyfriend's tool box) to make a house:)

and also: acrylics, scrapbooking paper, stamps, stencils, modelling paste, gel pen, rub ons

This project is for following challenges: 

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - Around the house

Rhedd's Ceative Spirit. An altered Art Challenge Blog

Love,

Sylwia

'I choose to be free'

Hello Arty Souls!

I just finished my new painting which was inspired by Mixed Media Place July Challenge. The theme of this challenge was a song 'Freedom' by George Michael.

Visit Mixed Media Place by clicking here

This song inspired me to let it go, use darker colours and  come up with scratchy look:)

I hope you enjoyed it :)