Art journals' creativity

I always have an art journal on my desk, while I am crafting or painting. It is a good exercise either to quickly decide how to use your extra paint on your brushes, wait for the layers to dry out, to leave the painting aside to start over with new ideas, or just to have your mind relaxed and refreshed, though still in a mode of discovering art. Apart from the extra points of creativity, you will have created your own art journals, that describe your art journey, and remind you of your thoughts, feelings, art stories, keepsakes, that can be altered books or notebooks or even handmade books, at which you will have bound paintings at whatever painting surface you will have used. A knowledge treasure of your abilities or difficulties, of creative imagination, and stories that you want to retell to yourself in the future. You can always change your previous artworks after you will have learned something new, and recreate the pages from scratch or just keep adding until you have gained a result that makes you happy. 

Sometimes it is more relaxing when it has to do with the aftermaths of the art procedure, to find yourself evaluating the interaction through the pages created in your art journal rather than to contemplate over your completed painting.

I am always happy when there are new things to learn!

And happy to be able to share the digitalised version of Green Dot Creations!

A Forest Walk

Spring still hasn't begun although it is the month of May, and the weather is still rainy and cold for the season. The parks are thriving with life and I have spent some afternoons depicting a 'forest walk' of mine. Let's see the results and in the next steps pictures of the process of this painting. Feel free to be advised and while each one that paints have unique skills that will bring unique results, it would be lovely to see the artwork you will have created to this forest painting. Let us start. 

This will be surely reworked in the future by me. I would add some more shadows and highlights, however I wouldn' t add extra sunrays through the forest or dispersed rocks around. I will keep this overal forest picture as it is.

Now let's see how we have got here in regard with this painting.

Picture one. Siennas, brown, white, black and light blue as a baseline, basic forming of the idea and lots of contemplating.

Picture two: Have mixed several different greens and stored them in small recycled vases with a lid. I don't know about you, but by experience, for me it is sure that there is always extra painting, after creating colours to be used in a painting. I store all the suitable vases with a lid or a proper closure that happen to be at my home just for this use: To extend the use of created colours, for next art or craft activities.

Picture three: First layer of greens, yellows, tree trunks and the forest walk begins.

Picture four: Second layer of greens and slight detailing with black.

Picture five: Lots and lots of shadowing, working in layers and adding here and there. There is more light needed at this point for the painting not to be that dreary. Though I wanted to keep this painting shadowy, as it was matching the weather and thus the overall mood.

Not much interventions were made in total. I used white for details, yellow to light up the greens and darkened existing colours for contrast. I have let the painting thoroughly dry, applied a thick coat of varnish, and stored the painting. 

Maybe I will continue this another day, when the weather will be sunnier. It have been wonderful afternoons scrolling around my imaginary forest.

Take care and enjoy!

Love to see you around!

Green Dot Creations 

Upcycling with acrylics and clay

In our every day lives we constantly have items around the house, that are too useful to be thrown away, in need of decorative value however. Recycling and upcycling plays a significant role in arts and crafts. It is a chance for every crafter to reduce costs and effort, and what is more important, to be in thought and in a caring deed for the enviroment of our planet and the own person's ecological footprint. The results can be amazing. Each artist can use the art materials of preferrence to result in either usable or decorative items practicing the creative imagination. In this post, I am sharing a hint to what we are going to be seeing in the next posts of this blog, apart from paintings and step by step tutorials. In the photo shared there are containers of every day items transformed with the help of air dry clay and acrylics, an altered bottle covered with air dry clay, and a waterproof vase made out of carton and the same art materials again, air dry clay and acrylics, made with a homade formula enhanced with building materials, easy to find, cheap and absolutely effective. I am going to be sharing this art recipe with you, among with pictures from scratch to finish. 

Stay tuned!

Love to see you around! 

Green Dot Creations

Altered painting book

The extraordinary world of art is not only about masterpieces derived from experiences by the huge number of talented artists. It is also about the exploration and learning, constructing abilities, gathering and creating memories, telling your story to yourself and others.

Here is an art journal cover, that took me more than a year to complete. 

Acrylics, homade pastes, metallic parts, handmade decorative items made out of clay, glass elements, and lots of layers. It has been a delight creating this!

Love to see you around!

Green Dot Creations

Ocean discovery

A new acrylic painting, exploring the ocean and making friends with a whale. 

If it is logic, then it must be true.

I will love to see you around at my new Facebook page. 

Have a wonderful day!

Green Dot Creations

Watercolour pencil drawing - Roses

Watercolour pencils was the art medium used for this art exercise. Pencil sketching to start the project, choosing the palette to be used among solid existing pencil watercolours and colours created after mixing. Finally, the appliance of the colors for the final painting. Lovely art session evening!

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Mixed media box, and mixed media painting. Acrylics, airdryclay, and other art mediums

After having walked and enjoyed nature sceneries and gathered some flowers, around a village, a painted carton box I created, with acrylics and air dry clay, as well as a homade mixture of plaster, glue, and white acrylic color. Along with the carton box, for storing dried flowers and other nature elements I gather when I go for a walk, a mixed media painting I created as well.

It was also a lovely day in the art studio!

Enjoy,

With love,

Green Dot Creations

Abstract painting, floral

Abstract flower painting, with acrylics colours, somewhere in between gardening, the beach, free time from work, and the cooling summer hours of the sunset.

Art in summer

Summerime and a rose flower one stroke painting 

Sunflowers field

Summer evening next to a sunflower field. "Summertime and the living is easy..."

Scrolling chicken, acrylic painting

This time, acrylics were worked at a cardboard, that added texture to the final painting, with its surface and with carved lining. A chicken scrolling next to my garden is the painting's theme. Some stones from the garden along with glitter, and colours, added extra dimension to the final result. That was a lot of fun!