Sunday
Oct282012
Painting around a photo {video}
Sun, October 28, 2012 at 07:01PM
Here is a tiny video for you since I was already in iMovie mode doing videos for the workshop. This is a quickie less-than-two-minute video of me painting with acrylics around a photograph in my exacompta. The photo was printed on my new little printer (info here). The art materials are golden fluid acrylics, gesso and found stamps. I can't stop putting photos on my pages, now that I have started, the floodgates have opened!
Here's a photo of the art journal page at Flickr.
Reader Comments (11)
Tammy,
Great little video!!1 Thank you for sharing it with us. I have started my afternoon art club with 6th graders and we are art journaling, so a little short like this one is perfect to get them in the groove. We would love to see more....
Karen E
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Karen, I love doing little videos but it's a matter of setting everything up and then I make a bunch at once. I will try to do more shorts with different techniques when I think of some ideas.
Brilliant little vid! I love it being done this speed - if only I could speed up like that I'd get so much more done!!
Thank you xxxx
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Fiddlesnips, Glad you liked it! It was only 2x speed, so it's a quick page, really!
great video! I loved watching you work and seeing how those colors came together.
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: iamrushmore, Thank you for saying hi! See you in 5 minutes for your next comment (you might recall your threat, ha ha).
I think this video shows how easy it can be to pull a beautiful page together. Just one photo that you like, or any image, and then mixing some colours that you enjoy. And voila! Thanks for sharing yet another great video.
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Absolutely right, Hanna. The quick pages are so much fun, they just come to life before your eyes.
Oooh! I always enjoy wtaching people create - I loved the music btw. i think my favourite moment was when you painted the dark around the picture - It looked like there were two paint colours on the brush. I also really like how simple, yet beautiful it is. A reminder not to always put too much on!
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Hannah, I like toying around with the music for each video - glad you like it! There were indeed two paint colors on the brush - the lighter color that was on most of the brush, and the darker color I "picked up" with the tip. Good eye!
Fun! I loved watching the colors come together so beautifully. I haven't used photos from my POGO printer in much too long. I need to pull it out again to have a little fun. I enjoyed seeing how you made the picture "work" on your spread.
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Andria, Thank you for stopping by. I printed a whole bunch on the pogo {if it's plugged in you can get lots of photos printed at once} so I'll play in the journal for a week or two and then print more.
Great video! I love your colors.
What are you using for a palette? It looks like the bottom of some sort of jug. I like that it seems easy to hold while working.
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Raine, Thank you for saying hi. For the palette I just use an old tupperware container. Other good palettes are the plastic lids from iced cream or large yogurt containers. I don't even clean it, the paint dries quickly.
What a great little video! i thouroughly enjoyed seeing the process and it's sparked a few ideas on this end!
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Paula, I'm so happy that a teeny tiny video could spark creative ideas. Now I've gotta film some more!
Hi Tammy,
I just received my Pogo printer and really like it so far. The images that are printed are not perfect but they are fun and funky. Just right for journaling. I am taking your workshop and hope that I can use it there. I hope with your help I can make such lovely pages too.
Thank you,
Vicki
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Vicki, You got a pogo! How fabulous! And if you by chance read my amazon review, the photos are indeed imperfect and that is one of the things that intrigues me about them. I am glad that you see the funkiness. Of course you can make lovely pages, just keep putting paint to paper and enjoy the process. See you in the workshop discussion!
Awesome video! LOVE the mix of colours! Thanks for sharing :-)
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Sam, I love that this technique works with almost any colors that "mix" nicely. Cheers!
Love your little video, very inspiring . . . . great illustration that just a few minutes needed for fun creative outcomes.
✭✭✭ {Tammy}: Carol, You are so right. And it's a great way to create lots of art journal backgrounds all at once...