YOUTUBE Free Demo Videos

I created this post to list the videos I submitted for the recent artists' collaberation art show on youtube.  Here is the list.  I hope you will watch these and subscribe to my channel!

90th birthday celebration canvas


Paint stained paper towel collage - (part1)


Paint stained towel collage - portrait (part 2)

Collage and Composition Workshop

Coming Soon!  COLLAGE and COMPOSITION 

online workshop

presented by

Linda Ann Smith

Joy Hellman

Kitty!

and guest teacher, TERRI SPROUL

 

Collage and Composition Workshop

I am one of the three teachers teaching this class  Weekly online workshop for 8 weeks.  You will have access each week to each session as they become avalable  Choose to view and work own your own schedule, at your convenience, and an added bonus of private facebook intereaction. 

Beginning March 17, 2015!

Terri Sproul will be featured as a guest teacher!!!  Three + one... for the price of one workshop! 

  4 highly qualified, experienced art teachers times 8 weeks of in-depth instruction equals collage making that you can't afford to miss! 

This workshop is designed help beginners as well as the experienced artists improve their composition skills. Each teacher will present her own unique style and technique to create dynamic collage while simultaneously applying art design principles that will take your art to a new level. 

The principles learned in this class apply to all media in art and can be easily transferred to any future creation.

For more information contact me here:  studioabsee@yahoo.com

Meet the CoulorArte Design Team

And I am one of them!!!!  So honored to be chosen to represent this wonderful company with so many talented artists!!!

ColourArte Design Team

Meet our Design Team

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We are so excited to announce our new design team, this team will start posting project with full direction for you on our blog starting March 1st.

Terri Sproul – Team Leader

Terri Sproul is the force behind  DVD called “MasquePen Magic” to see more of her video check out her Youtube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/terrisproul and join her live there on Tuesday Night for a Live stream. She is a diverse and experienced CHA Designer, design team leader and instructor for multiple companies in the paper craft world including “ColourArte”, “ Robin Nest”, “Creative Paperclay®”, “Sakura Hobby Craft” and Arnold Grummer!”. Terri and her husband Marc have the pleasure of living in San Diego County on top of Palomar Mountain. She has received a Bachelor of Scrapbooking Arts from Creating Keepsakes and Bachelor of Scrapbooking Education from EK Success. Terri’s passion is teaching fellow Scrapbooker’s and Stamper’s new techniques, and to think ‘out of the box’ and ‘off the Page.’ Visit her website and blog to see all the exciting stuff she does at http://www.terrisproul.com – link to blog is also there.

Zoey Emanuela Scarpelli

I have no fear of getting messy and mixed media is my safe place where I can finally let go of everything. I love mixing colors and mixing techniques and when I go to sleep with ink on my hands I know I lived my day full! Love working on TAGs, ATCs, canvases and altered objects.

I hope I will inspire you with my projects!

Barbara Rankin 

My name is Barbara Rankin, and I am so thrilled to be on the ColourArte design team.  I am a self-taught paper and mixed media artist, with my early beginnings making cards and gifts for family and friends.  I picked up my first rubber stamp in 1995, before the internet had so much inspiration to offer up-and-coming artists.  I love to learn, and I love to share what I have learned with others.  I love adding dimension to my projects, and just about everything I make has it in some form or fashion.  I am currently on two other design teams, Altered Pages and House of Cards.  I have been published in several paper and e-magazines, as well as a contributing artist in a book.  I have also been asked to make samples for display at CHA, as well as being a guest designer for Craftwell USA and Unruly Paper Arts.  I call Memphis, Tennessee, my home, which I share with my wonderful husband of 32 years and two adorable Yorkie sisters, all of whom make my life fabulous.

Jill K. Berry

Jill is a mixed-media artist who makes books, maps, paintings and other story-telling structures. She works in mixed-media with a bent towards classical art and teaches painting, lettering, journaling, mapmaking and various other mixed media classes worldwide.

You can her work in Somerset Studio, Letter Arts Review and Cloth, Paper Scissors, Art Journaling magazine, Drawing Lab, Journal It! The Complete Decorated Journal, 1000 Artists’ Books, and various other publications. She has written two books: Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking and Map Art Lab and is working on a third.

Jill feels that art is necessary and accessible to everyone.

 

Tetiana Komarova

Hello everyone! My name is Tetiana Komarova, however in the scrap world I use my nickname Taniko. I’m 27 years old and I live in Kiev, Ukraine. Currently there are three important matters in my life: my family – all my time is devoted to upbringing of my son Tim, postgraduate studies – for already two years all my mental efforts has been thrown to the writing of dissertation, and scrap – in 2011 I plunged into this exciting world and still depend on it.

I like to experiment and to make projects in different styles but my favorite is mixed-media. I adore mixed-media techniques because they give me the freedom to express myself and appear to be the best tool for the realization of creative potential. I formed my own view on this style and my projects are created with using contrasting colors. As for me the best colour combination that works together well is: turquoise+lime+yellow. I’m really obsessed about turquoise colour and you can find it in every my project!)) I like to make lots of layers and add different interesting small details, play with texture paste and acrylic paints, use bright colors and fabrics. My favourite type of craft are layouts 30*30cm, canvases and alter projects. I can’t imagine them without splashes of acrylic paint! My motto is: “Follow your scrap instinct to wherever it takes you”!

Best regards,

Tetiana Komarova (Taniko)

 Rita Barakat

https://www.facebook.com/rita.barakat.1

 When all the other little girls were playing with dolls and barbies
I was cutting pasting, drawing and painting! Lucky me, my mama kept
well stocked in arts and crafts supplies! It’s no wonder that years
later, all grown up with kids of my own I still love my art supplies
and I keep my kids stocked up too! In my work I hope you will find
encouragement, a little whimsy, something pretty or at least
something to make you think. I believe we need to be thankful for
what we have and focus on the positive! My work is always growing
and changing…evolving! Please visit my site RitaBarakat.com

Mona Pendleton 

I am married to my best friend, Scott and between the two of us we have 4 children ~ 2 grown young adults and 2 teenagers. I work as a Registered Nurse in the Operating Room. In my free time, I enjoy creating various projects ranging from cards, home decor, tags to scrapbook pages. I love to use a variety of mediums such as paints, inks, texture pastes and anything else that allows me to be creative.

Marie-Josee Hamel

Hello all! My name is Marie-Josée Hamel and I am 39 years old. I am a French Canadian living in Gatineau, close to Ottawa, Canada’s capital, with my husband and my daughter, Emily, who is 10 years old. I fell in love with scrapbooking in 2006, while visiting my friend in the United States, and I haven’t stopped scrapping since then. My main source of inspiration is color, so I am thrilled to be designing for ColourArte, because I will have the chance to use tons of wonderful colors on my projects. I love to create layouts, but also mixed media projects and cards. I can’t wait to share my work with you!

Yvonne Yam

Hello there! Greetings from sunny Singapore! My name is Yvonne and I love to make stuff, especially using unexpected “found” stuff around my house (or someone else’s) *winks* Cute things, vintage findings, pretty trinkets. I LOVE them all! 

My style is eclectic at best but really a mishmash of whatever tickles my fancy at that point in time! I love to experiment with mediums and play with textures. My projects always involve some form of upcycling and loads of colour.

Magda Polakow

My name is Magda and I always have been known as Magda Polakow. I’m Polish but I live in the UK with my hubby and two four-legged girls. I discovered scrapbooking in 2009 and since then I have been running a blog (http://littleeverland.blogspot.com ).

Before scrapbooking I was painting and drawing a lot which gave me a great background to combine both and fulfil myself in Mixed Media. I create mixed media canvases, tags and alter things but my real love is art journaling. This form of art gives me a freedom and opportunity to experimenting. I like working with various products, mixing them together and waiting to see with what I end up. Experimenting and learning in the same time new things is a great part in my creative journey.

Cindy Brown

My name is Cindy Brown alias Talkis on some Quebec forums. Those who know me say I am a dynamic girl who left to mark the way. Hyperactive by nature I channel my energy into lots of scrapbooking projects.

I have a boyfriend that I love and two dogs that I love children waiting Who Will one day. I am very close to my family. I also yours my artist from my grandma talent. She follows me even on Facebook.

Scrapbooking entered my life in 2006 because I wanted to make an album of my dogs. I found my shoe off and since then I am a compulsive buyer! I love discovering and trying new products especially. I want them all !!!!!

I love watching everything around me and inspires me to create. Making the rounds of blogs and Pinterest is also a joy for inspiration.I started this passion by making pages and then I‘m exploring the mixed media to return to pages by adding a touch of mixed media. I can not say I have a particular style,what I can say is that I like to explore all avenues.

Hope to show you my creations with the products of ColourArte During my term.

Shilpa Nagaonkar

Hi, I am Shilpa, I stay at Bangalore in India. I painted since childhood. Originally I am a card maker, hooked to Mixed media couple of years back. And now creating journal pages and playing with mixed medias is my passion. Usually my creations are vibrant, Lively and colorful. My art keeps me sane.

Apart from art I am a voracious reader and enjoy cooking!

I am very excited to be part of this very talented team!

Kasia Bogatko

My name is Kasia Bogatko, I’m 33 and I’m from Poland. I live here with my lovely husband and our big dog. I am a scrapbooker since over 4 years. For me it is the best way to relax after a hard day. Mixed media style are my biggest love. My works are full of layers, splashes, paints and mists. I make scrapbook pages, mixed media and off the page projects. I’m very happy that I can show my projects here. Please fell free to visit my blog http://www.kasiabogatko.com 

Linda Ann Smith

Art is not my hobby; it is my life, and paint is my passion!  For 12 years I was an art hungry child in a small school with no creative opportunities, but my family provided supplies for me to create art on the back of old wallpaper rolls. In college I enrolled in every art class I could find. I earned both a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Education degrees at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. Tahlequah is the national home of two Native American tribes, and my works often rerflect that influence.  I traveled to many states and European countries to further my art education through self-guided studies.  I have been an art teacher for 40 years, and particularly enjoy motivating students who claim that they are not artistic.   I believe everyone is an artist and people who say they are not creative just haven’t discovered their media.. My studio,  Studio A B See is located near Tulsa, OK

Marti Wills

Hello!  I am known in the online paper crafting world as Pezadoodle Designs.  I am very excited to be a part of the new ColurArte design team!  I have been an avid fan of all of the ColourArte projects for many many years.  I have been crafting in one form or another for as long as I can remember – my mother dubbed me the queen of make-and-do when I was little.  I did not discover paper crafting until I had my 3rd child 8 years ago and decided to stay home instead of going back to work.  I stumbled upon Tim Holtz and was mesmerized!  Shortly thereafter I acquired a Cricut machine and between the 2 I had found my passion!  Since then I have owned an online stamping store (since closed), started and ran a crafting magazine called Through the Craft Room Door, taught online classes and been on a host of design teams.  I have 2 grown sons, an 8 year old daughter and a brand new grandson who is adorable!  I have multiple crafting personality disorder and love doing very traditional scrapbook pages and cards, digital scrapbooking and graphic design as well as wild and free messy mixed media pieces and art journals!  In addition I love to sew, crochet, bead, and work with clay.

Legend of the Dragonfly

 

1.  Begin with a blank canvas.  Cut a circle from freezer paper and place it off center shiny side down, on the canvas, and tape it to the back edge of the canvas.  Also tape a couple of places on the front of the canvas. (This is just to hold it in place temporarily. Tape can be removed in the area you want to stamp and then reattached for the next process.)

2.  Choose a rubber stamp that will look attractive when stamped multiple times around the circle.   I chose a simple dragonfly stamp, but any stamp you like will work.  Use the paper circle as a guide and stamp all the way around the outside of the circle creating a frame with permanent black ink . 

I like all embellishments to wrap around the sides of the canvas to give the it a finished look without framing,  

3. Use a permanent marker to enhance or darken any of the stamps that did not turn out dark enough.  You will need to see this design through tissue paper.

4.  Leave the freezer paper circle attached shiny side down  on the canvas with the tape and choose a semi-transparent color of tissue paper.  I chose lime green.  Tear all the finished edges off of the tissue paper and begin attaching it to the canvas overlapping and covering the stamped area. Use a brush and Mod Podge or 1 part white glue and 1 part water mixture.  The tissue paper will slightly overlap the edge of the paper circle.  Once you start gluing the tissue paper down the circle will remain in place and you can remove all tape on the front of the canvas.

 
 

5. When you have covered the entire stamped "frame" begin adding darker shades of tissue paper.  I chose a color scheme of bright green and violet.  Continue to overlap your original color into this area also. The more you overlap, the darker the colors.  Use a heat gun if you wish to speed the drying process.  Be certain the glue is completely dry before moving on to step 6.

 

 

 6.  Now it's time to remove the freezer paper.  Slide a sharp pointed knife under the paper circle.  Hold it flat against the canvas and cut the circle away from the tissue paper.  

 Use a utility knife or scissors to trim any loose edges from the edge of the canvas.

7.  Choose an acrylic paint color that looks good with your composition. I chose turquoise because I like all of the cool colors together (greens, violets, and blues) , and because I never think a painting is finished unless it has a little turquoise!!!...my favorite color.   :-)     I placed a smaller circle inside the blank circular area and painted out away from the circle to leave a white center.  

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We learn as we go and the smaller circle really wouldn't have been necessary, since I later changed what I had planned to do.  Changing my mind midstream happens often in my art.  I just like to le! it flow!

 I could have just freehand painted a wide band inside the blank circle, but it gave me a nice guide for the next printing process. 

IMPORTANT:Be sure your paint is thoroughly dry before proceeding to the next step!

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8. Choose a second stamp for the inside "frame." I searched through my stamps for something geometric, but I couldn't find anything, so I chose the Eiffel Tower stamp, and used it like a geometric element.  I simply reinserted the smaller paper circle in the middle to mask the top half of the tower, so I would only see the arch . Note the red markers on the stamp to make placement easier.  I used a cactus green permanent ink for the arches.

I used permanent markers to enhance some of the geometry of the lower half of the tower and added some permanent marker "beads" between each arch.

9.  At this point, choose rubber stamps to embellish the canvas outside the frame as you see fit.  I chose a permanent black ink and stamped a feather three on the lower left of the canvas.

10.  Now it is time to finish the middle.  Choose a photo, picture, painting, or quote and glue it to the center of the circles.  Be sure to smoothe out all the bubbles.  I thumbed through an old sketchbook and was delighted to find a drawing I had finished of a dragonfly.  It was a perfect solution since my outer frame was also dragonflies!!!!  I used a rusty hinge color of distress ink on the edges and  Mod Podge to attach the drawing.

DONE!!!!