How to Package Your Art for Sale! Mixed Media Tutorial Unlocking Layers of Creativity.

 Grab your mixed media supplies : paints, crayons, inks, pencils, markers, whatever you have! Follow along with me as I take you step by step through this fun project. 

Have a marvellously creative day! 👩🏻‍🎨🎨🫶🏻🙂▶️Vicki xx

Elevate Your Painting with these 42 watercolour Textures.

 Play along and test out your water soluble paints, pencils, crayons, inks and lots more in this technique video.

SWATCH Like a PRO! Make perfect swatches to fit snugly into the lid of these Art Nouveau Watercolours!

 These Gansai Tambi Paints are great for beginners. They are highly pigmented paints that are a cross between gouache and watercolor. The Art Nouveau Set has a  rich , yummy colour selection . Sit back and relax as I show you the tricks and tips to perfect swatching. 

Have a marvellously creative day! Vicki x 

8 Gold Embossed Hand Painted Easter Egg Cards!

 Happy Easter Celebrations everyone! If you love production line card making, then this one’s for you! Once you get into the groove, it becomes a relaxing creative session. Put on some music, relax and do what you love! 

Have a marvellously relaxing, fun, creative Easter. 

Vicki xx

6 Ways to Fold Thick Watercolor Paper.

 Have you ever packed all your supplies into a bag to take to a retreat or class and found yourself missing a crucial tool or two? Here I show you what to do if you want to fold very thick paper or card stock using what you have. 

Have a marvellously creative day! Vicki 🎨🧑‍🎨🙂

2022 Christmas Craft Fair Ideas: Laminated Bookmarks and More!

It that time of year again, when it’s time to start getting ready for the Christmas Craft Fair. 

These laminated bookmarks are among my best sellers and cost just pennies to make. I also have some laminated craft sheets that are super easy to make. enjoy!

What are your best sellers? 

Have a marvellously creative day, Vicki 🙂🌟

 

Artist Desk Tour EXTREME CLEAN behind the scenes!

 Hi everyone, I hope you’re having a great weekend. I was brave enough to let you peek behind the scenes at my very messy desk! It doesn’t usually get in such a state, but I have many projects and paintings on the go, and it was in a terrible state. 

See how I turned chaos into calm , and now I’m ready to get to work with a sense of achievement. 

I also go through my favourite Watercolor supplies. Enjoy! Vicki 🙂

Review and Swatching of Daniel Smith 24 half pan Watercolors.

This 24 Watercolor palette by Daniel Smith comes with a BONUS empty palette of 24 half pans, so you can add your favourite colors along the way. 

I go through each color and explain its properties. 

Enjoy! 

 

Got 5 minutes for a no-mess art journal page? Try this!

 I have been collecting sticker books from the Spotlight Store. These inexpensive books are published by American Crafts and are full of colour coordinated sticker sheets, with quotes, flowers,birds, and design elements to make borders.

Perfect for those days when you feel like being creative , but don’t feel like getting out all your supplies and making a mess.

I use my Dylusions Travellers Notebook size journal for this. All the backgrounds are already coloured, and all you do is literally peel and stick! So Easy…So Fast…So Satisfying.

🌟Dancing Cockatoos visit my Art Studio!🌟

A glimpse into my back yard! These cockatoos were doing a mating dance right outside my studio! This very rare footage shows the sulphur crested cockatoos with crests raised, dancing their little hearts out. WARNING! this video is extremely loud LOL. 

The birds live in the Royal National Park, which is just across the river.

Dendritic Printing: from Cards To Art!

 Make cool prints using low tech supplies. I absolutely love this technique. It is so easy your kids could do it too. 

Any smooth service would work for this. Some people use glass from old photo frames, but I don’t like the possibility of the glass breaking as you do need to apply pressure. Tiles worked really well for me, but tempered glass, like chopping boards, or Perspex sheets work really well too. 

Using Metallic Embossed Greetings over Gel Prints.

 

Watch the YouTube short showing all 28 cards. 

After studying printmaking in the Regional Gallery, and learning how to successfully print monotypes, Linocuts, lithographs and Collagraphs, I was excited to see what new techniques I could experiment with using my gel press. 

I discovered I LOVE printing, having been a stamper for so long.

Smooth  white cardstock from Stampin Up and distress oxide inks from Ranger made the perfect marriage of creamy sharp edged prints using just 2 colours  and several stencils per A4 sheet.

It is possible to produce beautiful prints every time using this method. Each A4 sheet I printed yielded 4 card fronts, which I then adhered to card bases and now have cards for days! 

Faux Cyanotype Prints

 Create prints using stamps and ink that look like Cyanotype! Cyanotype prints are named after the colour Cyan, which is a standard printers ink , and photosensitive paper. You can achieve a very similar effect using low tech materials. Watch the video to find out how it’s done. 

Easy Art Journaling

 Ever wanted to finish an art journal page in less than 5 minutes? This tutorial will give you some easy tips to do just that!

We’re All Connected!

 Here is a walkthrough of how to create a Neurographic Painting using watercolours .

I used Arches 100% cotton paper and my Windsor and Newton field box of paints and spent a lovely meditative afternoon making art. 

Have a marvellously creative day,

Vicki x 🎨🌿