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October 18, 2011
Kathy
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A Fun Website for Recycled Art and Products

Posted in Other Artist Work

A Fun Website for Recycled Art and Products

  Recyclart.org   This fun website loaded with lots of clever and interesting recycled, reused, and upcycled products.   There are a lot of clever ideas !  Take a look:

Recycled art butterfly

Michelle Stitzlein creates found object art / sculpture from recycled materials, including piano keys, broken china, license plates, rusty tin cans, electrical wire, bottlecaps, and other miscellaneous items. ore information at Michelle Stitzlein website !

Pallet coffee table by Un Air de Recup

Another pallets creation, this coffee-table is nicely done with a platform playing on two height and on the assembly of different woods.  More information at Un Air de Recup website !

recycled watch parts by t 2nd VIE website

Thumbnails made ​​with watch parts, recovered from the jewelers. More information at 2nd VIE website !

That’s what you can do with recovery of old kitchen pieces, the horned beast is done with an old water bottle, a colander and kitchen utensils ! More information at 2nde VIE website !

Aren't  they great?! There's lots more at the site.  Enjoy!

October 12, 2011
Kathy
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A Tribute to Garlic

Posted in Art Work, Peeking Behind the Easel, and Reference Photos

A Tribute to Garlic

What's not to love about garlic? Just about any dish with garlic is delicious and it has a huge amount of folklore behind it.  What I like most about garlic though,  is how it looks.

SibStudio.com Garlic Photographed for painting

The entire bulb is wrapped in thin translucent paper – like nature's tissue paper. As you pull out each individual clove, they are also wrapped similarly.  It's like a little wrapped present from the garden. Once you get the clove unwrapped, the smoothness of the clove contrasts with the papery roughness of the bulb. It's an interesting vegetable and really fun to paint.

SibStudio.com garlic
As a tribute to garlic, I painted all the parts of the garlic – the bulbs, the paper skin, the cloves and the undersides with the hair-like  roots.  I chose a creamy white neutral  background to not detract from garlic. However it needed a few pops of color, so I added sage and forest greens as an ode to the garden it grows in and to add some depth to the painting. I also added a little touch of maroon – red in the garlic shadows to contrast with the green.  And if you look closely at the both the photos, you can see the subtle maroons in the garlic shadows.

SibStudio.com painting of garlic. Can be found on Etsy.com
And that is my tribute to garlic and a peek behind my easel.  

October 7, 2011
Kathy
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Fun With Blackboard Paint

Posted in Jump starting creativity

Fun With Blackboard Paint

Oh the very cool things you can do with blackboard paint! I haven't tried it, but take a look at the creative and fun ways people have used blackboard paint!

Chalk board paint calendarChalk board paint on door panels

Source: google.com via Elizabeth on Pinterest    source:  thepleatedpoppy.com  via Carmella on Pinterest  

So easy to paint on!  And you just paint over it with primer when you are tired of it.  Now take a look at some really creative ways to use the paint:

chalkboard paint
source:  blogs.babble.com via Danielle on Pinterest    http://www.designsponge.com/2010/08/diy-project-bonnies-chalkboard-planting-pots.html

more chalkboard paint

http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/p/portfolio.html  Source: source: arealhousewifeandmommy.blogspot.com via AT on Pinterest,   source: raisingolives.com via Kathy on Pinterest

And this is just silly but so fun!

John Cachego (NogsOnline) via flickr via http://www.improvisedlife.com/2009/08/24/chalkboard-volkswagon/

I'm ready to try it!!   How about you?

September 30, 2011
Kathy
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Pearl Painting

Posted in Art Work, and Peeking Behind the Easel

Pearl Painting

I have a new miniature painting in my Etsy shop. This is the kind of oyster I want to find.

SibStudio Pearl on a Half Shell Oyster

One of the things I like about painting the miniatures is they can act as a thumbprint for a larger painting.  I've painted oyster shells in prior paintings but haven't tackle pearls. This was a chance to experiment with capturing the luster of the pearl. I used little touches of purple, blues, and creams to recreate the colors you can see in a pearl.

I took a little artistic license and used a bed of sand rather than the oyster itself. I wanted to contrast the texture of sand versus the smoothness of the pearl. 

I also used a pearly finished paint for the background to contrast the dullness of the oyster and highlight the pearl. I think in a larger painting, the pearly background would be overkill, but it works well on a small scale painting.
And that's a peek behind my easel – enjoy the rest of your day!

September 28, 2011
Kathy
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And Now For Something Different

Posted in Art Work

And Now For Something Different

I have added some painted ornaments to my shop inventory.

SibStudio at Etsy dot com

Some are painted while I am painting something similar since the paint colors are ones I'm already using. The butterfly and chickadee are examples. And others I am painting in between other paintings. I like the variety of changing up the surface that I'm painting on.  Wood surfaces require a bit of prep work to get smooth surface. They need a little sanding and a coat of gesso before the actual painting. These little guys are fun to paint.   I will be adding more  through out the holiday.