Clay Diyas

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Hello folks!

The festive season is upon us. And am very excited about my favorite festival....and you guess it right. Its DIWALI 😁. Staying away from our homeland really creates a void in our heart during festivals. Its like a silent longing for me ....missing home and family. Its not that other days there is no such feeling...its just that it peaks during festivals. This year am going to celebrate with a festive spirit, imagining how wonderful it would be to spend this time with family and recollecting all the beautiful memories. Lighting Diya was one of my favorite activities. In this blog I have shared some of my handmade clay Diyas.  I have used air dry clay both terracotta and white. Enjoy !

















 I dedicate this blog to all those who are missing their home and family. Happy Diwali !! 😃

Texture Painting

Monday, September 18, 2017

Hola amigos 😃 !

Today I want to share tutorial for texture painting that I made last week.


The materials used are :
  • A primed canvas
  • Gouache paints from Talens Art Creation for background 
  • Acrylic paints 
  • Fine grain  acrylic effect paste from CREA BOX Marabu brand.
  • Palette knives 
  • Stencil
  • Painters tape


I started with a yellow, green, violet blended background. For this I used Gouache paints. They are opaque matt paints with high intensity colors. For making violet, I used Deep Rose and Cyan colors. And the rest are Deep Green and Lemon Yellow.


Once the canvas is dry, I taped the stencil onto the canvas. I used certain parts of the canvas to get the design. So I taped the rest of the stencil to avoid texture paste getting through. I used Acrylic Effect Paste from CREA BOX. It can be painted over once dry. To spread the paste I used plastic palette knives.



Similarly going further...




This is the final design.


To paint over the effect paste, I used bleeding technique. For this, I painted the petal with a little bit of water first using a brush.


Then I slightly touched the petal with color. And now the beauty of it unfolds 😍.




Similarly, painting all the petals...



I drew some outlines using black acrylic paint.


Now, I used the same bleeding technique to paint the stems and leaves. This time, I used two colors: Green and yellow.


I drew some swirls as background. I used white, yellow, green and blue colors for this. 




At few areas I used gold metallic paints and ...done !!



 
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