Hello readers 😃!!

I am very excited to share with you my new mixed media art. I LOVE riding bikes 💗. I learnt it when I was 15. After finishing my 10th board exams, the whole summer was spent learning to ride it with the help of my uncle. Many discouraged and ridiculed me when I started, saying a girl can't ride a bike or am too young to be able to do it. But without losing hope and with the help of my dear uncle, I was successful in 2 months. Yay me 😁 !! After my wedding I didn't get to ride the bike so much. Only when I visited my parents, I would go around with my dad. Last week I rediscovered my love for bikes and my husband loves Royal Enfield, so I decided to paint this 😃.

I used black, white and green acrylic paints to do the background.

Then I drew the sketch with a pencil.

I wanted to give a 3D look, so I used air dry clay to do the bike. I rolled the clay into thin strings and pasted them using clear dry glue.

When the clay dried, I used gold acrylic to paint over the clay. And Ta Da !! 

Peacock mixed media art

Hello readers 😃!

Today I want to share how I made a mixed media canvas using modeling clay. This one is variation of a canvas I made called Clay floral design on canvas. I made a black background on the canvas using acrylic paints. To get an even distribution, I  gave the canvas several coats of black by letting each coat dry.

I wanted a different texture and design for background. This time I experimented with bubble wrap 😊. I painted the bubble wrap with blue acrylic paint and stamped it onto the canvas at several places.

Similarly I added more colours using the bubble wrap on the canvas.

After being satisfied with the background, I sketched a peacock with paisley patterned feathers using a pencil.

Now to give boundaries I rolled modeling clay into thin string and glued it onto the canvas.

And going further...

And done with the clay boundaries 😊. Now let the glue and clay dry.

Now I painted the bird with silver acrylic paint. Painted the branches with metallic green. And for flowers, I used metallic  blue, violet and peach.

Next, I used metallic gel pens to draw the patterns in the paisleys.

And done 😃!!

Clay medallion

Hello people !

I had a block of modeling clay which was drying up. So I decided to carve it into a medallion.

I had no fixed design as such in mind. So I started off with a circle. I used a candle to mark the circle. 

To carve the design I used a tool.

The rough edges can be smoothed out using a sand paper. Here is the final medallion. It can be painted over when dry.

Sunflower candle holder

Keeping up with the festivities of Diwali, I have made some more clay candle holders which I will be sharing in series of blogposts. In this post, I have made a candle holder which looks like a sunflower. The  material is air dry modeling clay which I have used in many previous projects. Paints are acrylic. 

I rolled a sheet out of the modeling clay and cut petals in it.

Then I arranged the petals on a circular clay piece which acts as a base. The best feature about this clay is you can use water to join or blend pieces.

I wanted the petals to be a little high instead of laying flat, the way real flowers are. So to do that, I rolled some tissue paper and placed it underneath the flowers. So when the clay dries, it holds its position.

Similarly, I went on with another layer of petals with tissue roll underneath.

The final layer of petals....and to seal off, I placed another circular clay piece in the center.

Leave the clay to dry on its own. It takes 1 or 2 days to dry based on how thick the petals are. 

Once dry, you can paint it as you like. I chose red and yellow.

Mixed media art

Here's a blog post depicting my experiments in the mixed media art. I have used crayons and modeling clay to do this work. The final art looks like this:

I started off by sprinkling some crayon shavings on a canvas. I used mostly primary and secondary colors. This makes the art look colorful and vibrant. After that, I placed baking paper/butter paper on top of the canvas and ironed the surface. The baking paper helps in keeping most of the melted crayon on the canvas.

I repeated the process of melting crayon shavings so that the whole canvas area is covered with color.

After the crayon on canvas has dried completely, I made some swirls in random sizes using modeling clay. I glued them on the canvas. There were no sketches made for this work. Everything was random.