Speed Art: Queen Nefertiti Canvas (Pebeo Mixed Media)

This is probably one of my favourite pieces ever.  I have a lot of respect for the mysterious queen Nefertiti (one of my cats is called Nefertiti too) and have tried to portray the magnificence of her famous bust using Pebeo mixed media fantasy paints.  The special effects from the fantasy paints have allowed me to create almost a hammered metal effect for the main sections (using the moon paints) and a jewelled effect for the precious stones (using the fantasy paints).  The foiling adds to her majestic qualities.
I’m always looking for ways to do something differently and so it was nice to try a portrait with the Fantasy paints because they are so unpredictable that it was almost silly to do such a thing … so I did!
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Ingredients

• Black Gesso
• Transparent Liner
• Black Liner
• Mixtion Relief
• Gold Foil
• Empire Gold Gilding Wax
• White 4Artists marker
• Fantasy Moon paints and Fantasy Prisme paints

Speed Art Canvas: Pirate Flag (Pebeo Mixed Media)

Guess who’s back with a brand new speed art for you?  If you know me already then you know that I am a HUGE fan of pirateology.  Here’s my pirate inspired canvas using all Pebeo products and Jack Rackham’s jolly roger!

Pebeo Mixed Media Canvas Set “LUCY” 4 of 4

Inspired by the recent Sheena Douglass shows on Hochanda I decided to give some of my daughters old wall art a revamp as I had everything in my stash.  The canvases were originally Disney princess pictures from the pound shop but I covered them up with black gesso.  All mediums used are by Pebeo plus a few bits and bobs from my crafty stash.  Here is a video on how I made the fourth and final canvas “Y”.  This has an under the water theme and I love the shells, sand and Punchinello.  This one was my personal favourite.

Scroll past the video for photos and a list of materials used…

Ingredients

• Pebeo Black Gesso
• Pebeo Modelling Paste
• Punchinello
• Shells (from a hobby store) and play sand
• Pebeo Mixtion Relief
• Pebeo Foiling Sheet in Green
• Pebeo Fantasy Prisme paints (in a green and a blue)
• Pebeo Dyna paints (2 of the blue/green colours)
• Glue
• Transparent Mixtion Relief (Pebeo makes one but I’m not sure what brand this one was)

Here is the finished set!  I love how they each have been made using the exact same techniques but each one has a completely different theme to it.

Part 1 “L” / Part 2 “U” / Part 3 “C / Part 4 “Y”

Pebeo Mixed Media Canvas Set “LUCY” 3 of 4

Inspired by the recent Sheena Douglass shows on Hochanda I decided to give some of my daughters old wall art a revamp as I had everything in my stash.  The canvases were originally Disney princess pictures from the pound shop but I covered them up with black gesso.  All mediums used are by Pebeo plus a few bits and bobs from my crafty stash.  Here is a video on how I made the third canvas “C”.  This one is covered in cogs and is actually Lucy’s favourite one in the set.

Scroll past the video for photos and a list of materials used…

Ingredients

• Pebeo Black Gesso
• Pebeo Modelling Paste
• Pebeo Mixtion Relief
• Pebeo Green Foil Sheet
• Pebeo DYNA paints
• Pebeo Fantasy Prisme Paints
• Sand paste made by mixing play sand in with the modelling paste
• Pebeo gilding wax in Empire Gold
• Cogs die cut from chip board
• Micro beads

Here is the finished set all together.  For “L” click here, for “U” click here.

Pebeo Mixed Media Canvas Set “LUCY” 2 of 4

Inspired by the recent Sheena Douglass shows on Hochanda I decided to give some of my daughters old wall art a revamp as I had everything in my stash.  The canvases were originally Disney princess pictures from the pound shop but I covered them up with black gesso.  All mediums used are by Pebeo plus a few bits and bobs from my crafty stash.  Here is a video on how I made the second canvas “U”.

Scroll past the video for photos and a list of materials used…

Ingredients

• Pebeo Black Gesso
• Pebeo Modelling Paste
• Paper flower embellishments (the ones without centres are Prima)
• Micro beads
• Pebeo Mixtion Relief
• Pebeo Gold Foil
• Pebeo Fantasy Prisme Paints in 2 colours
• Pebeo DYNA paints in 2 colours
• Pebeo vitrail glitter medium

Here is the set of canvases all together.  You can catch up on Part 1 here.

Mixed Media Canvas for Sheena Douglass

This is a mixed media canvas that I created for the designer Sheena Douglass.  The end result was really beautiful with all of its shiny parts and especially the mermaid whose tail catches the light beautifully.  I made it through to the 2nd stage of the recent Design Team Call out for Sheena Douglass and even though I wasn’t picked in the end I still wanted to share with you my makes and how I made my final round canvas featuring stamping, die cuts, stencilling and lots of Pebeo mixed media-ness!  The canvas had lots of super shiny elements thanks to the foiling and the Dyna paints.  For my samples that were made in the first round please scroll down past the video and past the ingredients list…

Ingredients

• Gesso in White and Black by Pebeo
• High density modelling paste and modelling paste by Pebeo
• Crackle texture paste by Golden
• Stamps by Sheena Douglass (mermaid and cracks)
• Stencils by Sheena Douglass (pop dotty and equalizer)
• Dies by Sheena Douglass (wild rose and day of the dead)
• Embossing folder by Sheena Douglass
• Acrylic paints by Pebeo (including Dyna colours)
• Gelatos by Faber Castelle
• Foil Gilding sheets by Pebeo (green and silver)
• Drawing gum by Pebeo
• Perfect medium by Ranger
• Archival ink in Watering Can by Ranger
• Spectrum Noir alcohol pens (skin tones)
• Mixtion relief by Pebeo
• Aluminium tape
• Black card

Here’s my three makes from the first round:

 

Day of the Dead Mini Canvas (click for blog post and video)

Savannah Family Card – I’m planning on making this into an art journal page so make sure you’ve subscribed to my YouTube channel.

Faux Leather Embossed Altered Box – click for the blog post

Mini Canvas: Day of the Dead

These mini canvas boards are great for experimenting ideas in smaller formats before going big!  I’ve attached ribbon to the back so that it hangs.  This picture has been created using some of the stamps and flower die from Sheena Douglass’s Day of the Dead collection. 

Ingredients

• Black Gesso by Pebeo
• Acrylic Dyna Paints by Pebeo
• Stamps by Sheena Douglass (Day of the Dead collection)
• Black Archival Ink by Ranger
• Mixtion Relief and Black Vitrail Liner by Pebeo
• Vitrail, Fantasy and Prisme paints by Pebeo
• Gilding Sheets by Pebeo
• Archival Ink in Tiger Lily
• Sparkle coloured gel pens
• Shrink plastic
• Printer paper
• AquaTints by Spectrum Noir
• Black Ribbon

Pebeo Mixed Media Canvas: Dolls House Window

I created this canvas for Pebeo's UK Mixed Media Competition and was thrilled to be selected as a finalist. Pebeo make all of my favourite mixed media materials. This canvas has been created using the high viscosity acrylic paints, vitrail paints, texture paste, fantasy paints, prisme paints and vitrail outliner. The Dolls House window is a spare from the dolls house that I have made at home and was originally plain wood. I painted it to look realistic to juxtapose from the abstract canvas.

 

Pebeo Mixed Media Winners Exhibition 2016

Huge congratulations to all of the other artists selected for the first UK Pebeo Mixed Media competition.  I was lucky enough to have one of my canvases selected!  Pebeo put on a special exhibition for us for a week at A&D gallery in London.  The standard of the art was amazing!  I love Pebeo products but I don’t have years of experience with their mixed media range.  Now that I have seen what can achieved with these products I am truly inspired.  I also got to meet the Managing Director of Pebeo UK.

Here is the finalists photo album on Facebook where you still have until Friday to like your favourites with the 1st place winner to receive £500 of art materials.  https://www.facebook.com/620749404714399/photos/a.928756547247015.1073741830.620749404714399/928757527246917/?type=3&theater (cheeky hint but mega loves to anyone who likes my Doll House canvas X)

Here’s some photos from the event and stay tuned for a speed art video of how I created my canvas and watch out for future Pebeo creations from me!!!

Left to Right: Ligia (Pebeo UK social media), me and John Wright (MD Pebeo UK)

Me and my canvas!  P.S. do you notice my necklace?  I made it with Pebeo products!!!

My canvas in full – yes, that’s a real dolls house window! 

Mixed Media Canvas: Lucky

Here’s a lovely way of making art from whatever you may have lying around your crafting area.  Don’t let any colours distract you as the whole thing will be gesso’d out and recoloured.  I’ve taken a variety of stencils – including some by Tim Holtz, Sheena Douglass and Memory Box – and applied either texture paste or crackle paste using a spatula.  Once dried I’ve added all sorts of bits of pieces including some Idea-ology pieces (wooden letters, faux wishbone and a clay moulding of a clock face piece), paper flowers by Prima, lace ribbon, beaded string, card die cut pieces and a random tinker bell cabochon from a fancy dress outfit.  The whole piece got two coats of white gesso by Pebeo and was then left to dry.  Then came the Distress Crayons- yay!  These were scribbled on in vertical areas and painted out with a wet brush.  Once completely covered the piece wasn’t pulling itself together properly so out came the Dylusion ink spray.  This still allowed the colours from the distress crayons to show through but were now all related together from the top layer of turquois.  The final step was highlighting all of the raised areas (which are plentiful from all of the texture) with Empire Gold gilding wax by Pebeo.

Altered Frames for Stamped Sheena Pictures (in Steps)

This technique was demonstrated by Sheena Douglass during one of her shows on Hochanda recently.  Essentially you take any cheap, old or unloved frame and give it a new look.  The materials used are Pebeo black gesso (which is a great choice as it really does give a good even one-coat finish), Pebeo Dyna acrylic paint (sorry but you won’t get the full experience of these special effect paints on a computer screen) and Pebeo gilding wax in Empire Gold.  It’s easy as 1-2-3!  This images I popped inside my frames were created with the Laguna Surf stamp set by Sheena Douglass.  The background stamps were coloured with Spectrum Aqua Pens and the foreground images were heat embossed onto acetate and coloured from behind with the Pebeo Dyna paints.

1. Cover frame in black gesso

2. Sponge dyna paints

3. Apply gilding wax to all raised edges, dry then buff it

First Frame… from Poundland!  It started off horrible shiny white plastic which I enjoyed killing off with the gesso mwahahahaa…

Second Frame – a quality ceramic-like material

Pebeo Mixed Media Canvas: Heart Flower

So I had a lot of fun playing with the Pebeo goods that I’ve been collecting and wanted to put the fantasy paints to good use!  Here’s some crazy heart shaped flower I painted, plus I then went on to make another two to match!

Ingredients

• Pebeo acrylic high viscosity
• Pebeo Vitae Black Outliner
• Pebeo Vitrail Paints
• Pebeo Fantasy Prisme
• Pebeo Fantasy Moon
• Pebeo Mixtion Relief
• Pebeo Mirror Foil Gold

The honeycombs of Fantasy Prisme

The pearliness of Fantasy Moon