New painting with highly textured parts and line segments is a fresh colorful start of something new this autumn. The specialty of the new process is a use of a usual material in an unusual way. I am talking about a rope, made from natural fibers, that is a leading part of the painting. It defines the composition and all the other parts are subordinated to it. As the rope is a line segment I used … [Read more...]
3 amazing art techniques for textured painting
Try out this DIY tutorial! Texture is one thing that always gets me totally inspired to create! A perfect combination of texture making and painting gives an amazing effect on canvas. I love the play of shadows and light on the structured surfaces. It's like you would merge sculpture and paint into one piece. Below you have 4 videos of making 2 art pieces from start to end and some ideas how … [Read more...]
My top 5 color palettes
I remember when I was a kid, I asked my dad what was his favorite color and he said brown. I couldn't get that…how can he pick brown if we have such amazing colors like pink and purple? Ages later, when the brown became one of my favorite colors, well, I get it now ;) I was obviously a girly girl with a dollhouse and Barbie girls, purple and pink were my top pick, until the age of 8, when I … [Read more...]
How to choose perfect color combination?
Do you know that feeling, when you come to an art shop and stand in front of endless color collection? It reminds me of my primary school, when new year started and I got a big box of brand new color pencils in many different shades, too perfect to even use them. :) For my art I now use mostly acrylic colors and every now and then I go to the shop and randomly pick few new shades. Just going with … [Read more...]
Follow your bliss
I must admit, I am really not in that Christmas spirit yet. More than "late night shopping" lately for me was "late night painting". I had enormous creative burst and couldn't stop working on my canvas :) So in the last month I finished my painting "Follow your bliss". I combined all my art skills and also all the knowledge I gained during this years intuitive painting class. It was total … [Read more...]
That un-pleasant stage of art process
Last weekend I attended a special photography workshop, organized by our local Photo group "Svit" (eng. dawn). Every year in October they have different themed photography workshops for everyone. My wish was to participate in street photography class, because it is really challenging to move around city and take photos of people, who are not so pleased to be the photo subject :) and to catch … [Read more...]
Your diamond
A while ago I became aware, that I have pretty bad opinion about myself. I have always put focus on my imperfections and forgot about the talents, the good stuff and those little sparks that make me - me. I needed some time to think about it, about my beliefs and how was I raised, where do those thoughts come from and how to rebuild my selfconsciousness. When I had this breakthrough and started to … [Read more...]
Strawberries, poppy and Alice in Wonderland
I have been an artist for over 10 years and during my art education I really got all the skills and developed my talent for painting. But that did not fulfill me and my soul. I always planned, what I will paint and try to stay in a box of knowledge that I had. It took me some time to realize that art can not be a product of mind, like I was taught in school. I must create with heart, not just art, … [Read more...]
The rain
Since I started to practice intuitive painting, my view on art changed tremendously. More or less I always painted with some kind of plan, I learned that in all those school-time years and studies. But the truth is, life can't be planned, we don't know, what tomorrow will bring and why should we then plan art? It definetly feels more comfortable and secure to have things figured out, but that … [Read more...]
Process of painting “The whirl”
This year for me is all about exploration in art. I met different artists and their painting procedure. One thing is, what we learn during the studies in school and workshops, and the other thing is to find yourself and express that in art. I definitely developed my style in these years, but still, I always feel that there is room for moving forward, developing and growing in art and also in … [Read more...]