I keep getting this comment from you that don’t live any near Raleigh. Well, I’ll come to you! You can have me right in your home if you register for the Acrylic Painting Club.
In Session 2 I’ll teach my Snowfall design. Hope you are up for some cool painting.
Snowfall
Register now to be eligible for freebees, treats, and drawings!
Sunning Turtles
Here’s my project for the Acrylic Painting Club. Join us for 14 terrific acrylic painting tutorials with videos by 13 terrific artists. Only $99 for all this.
Acrylic Painting Club site and to register.
Wow, I’ve just been invited to join the terrific line up of teachers for the Acrylic Painting Club. What an honor to join such a talent line up.
Now I need to start the creative juices flowing and come up with an inspired painting for you.
Drawing Faces
Have you heard? Most of my on line classes on Creative Workshop are on sale during the month of June. 40% off! Now is the time to take advantage of this summer offer.
You have 24/7 access to my classes and if you rewind I will repeat anything you like as many times as you like. I don’t mind at all.
Creative Workshops, thanks to Gail Schmidt’s dedicated efforts, is a wonderful on line class site. Class are seldom-ly removed unless they are just out of date, so you can enjoy the class at your own pace and even see it again if you like.
Gail has excellent directions for using the site, too. Here’s how it works.
You can find more details about my classes here: details
Let’s have some creative fun together!
Mastering Decorative Painting Basics part 3
I’ve been playing around with a watercolor technique where I reduce a photo down to black and white, increase contrast to the max, and just have fun with washes. I was pleased my with cow design from a photo that my husband had taken. Here is the original photo so you can see some of my progression.
I plan to make a video of this design and offer it on Creative Workshops.
You can see this photo on Rick’s web site plus many more of his art photos.
Cow by Rick Watd
Cow black and white by Rick Ward
Cow Abstract watercolor
It’s coming, the snow that is. Wake county schools are closing for today and my inclement weather policy is no classes if the schools are closed.
There are no classes Tue or Wed at Artful Endeavors. I want everyone to be off the roads and safe.
However, I will be at the studio from 9a-12noon if anyone wants to come in this Tues am to paint, or doesn’t check the web site.
Your homework is to draw or paint something. Study the snow, the shadows, the colors,
A quick easy and fun snow scene.
how it looks coming down. Take reference photos. Sketch that thing in the yard with snow all over it. Bring it in next week and show me what you did. Take an online class. My Mastering Decorative Painting Basics part 2 on Creative Workshops goes over side loading techniques. Always a good review. Or you might find another class that strikes your fancy. My Drawing Faces would be a great class. Just do something artsy. I’ll look forward to hearing about it next week.
Stay warm, dry, and mostly safe while you enjoy the snow. It should be beautiful.
Liz
During the month of Dec I’m gifting you with 15% off on all my on line classes.
You can check out my classes on our on-line class page right here on my web site, or you can go directly to Creative Workshops to register and take advantage of my gift to you.
Drawing Faces
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Watch for my new on-line classes coming up after the first of the year. Now I’ve told you about my new classes so I had better get busy taping them.
Have a wonderful holiday season and I’ll see you back for our New Year of Painting Party on Jan 5th.
Check out the special offers at Creative Workshops going on right now!
Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!
It’s a beautiful fall day with colorful trees and very pleasant weather here today. It’s a perfect Halloween eve.
I have a Halloween treat for you. It’s directions for my spooky owl pen.
Spooky Owl Pin A Liz Miller CDA design
You can use your favorite colors but here are some of the ones that I’ve used:
DecoArt Americana: Lamp Black, Raw Umber, Butterscotch, Warm White, Marigold, Irish Moss, Tangerine, and Burnt Sienna.
The blank is available at my studio or you can order from Viking Woodcrafts if you can’t drop by my studio.
Spooky Owl Pin
Let’s Paint a Spooky Owl in a Tree:
I used a flat Bringle Blender to scuff in the tree using the chisel edge of the brush and RU. Then use Butterscotch and a very little Butterscotch + WW to lighten the left side of the trunk and branches. I then added a little scuffed in Tangerine to accent the light side and middle of trunk. Use a side loaded flat to darken the right side of trunk with Black. Of course the hole in the base of the tree is painted black. The spider webs are also painted black. Dry and then pattern your owl.
Using a #0 liner dab in the owl with RU to create fluffy feathers. Begin to fluff in the lighter feathers by adding WW to your dirty brush. Notice the light feather on the face and details on the head and body. Don’t forget the tail feathers. Lighten the face by adding more WW to your dirty brush. Eyes are Marigold and shaded at the top with BS when dry. Outline them with RU. Pupils are black with a WW glint. Beak is RU with a WW glint. I added a little dabbed in BS under the chin and at the base of the tail. Add a few WW claws to hold onto the branch that you add with your tree colors. Add any other owl like detail that you would like.
To finish up dry brush a little WW on the spider webs and touch in some Tangerine eyes inside the hollow of the tree with black pupils and WW glints. I then flick up some grass at the base of the tree with Irish Moss, a nice spooky bright green color, using my flat blender.
Dry and spray with DecoArt Triple Thick spray several times allowing plenty of dry time between sprays. Remember not to touch the varnish to check dryness unless you would like to leave a nice finger print for later ID purposes. When dry glue a pin back to your painted treasure and enjoy wearing.
pattern
Have a spooky time painting this project. We still have some fall season to enjoy this little pen.
You are welcome to teach this design but be sure to give me credit for the design.
Watch for a winter version of this design coming up soon!
Liz
The winner of my 3 class basic techniques series on Creative Workshops is Elaine Allen!
Congratulations Elaine and thanks for your interest in my classes. I’ll be sending you an email.
Mastering Decorative Painting Basics Part
Thanks to all of you who participated in our exciting blog party. You can still take a class with me at Creative Workshops, so hop on over there and register. I’ll be looking for your name on my registered list.
Liz
Have you every been to a blog party? Well this will be my first one. Our new, wonderful Creative Workshops site where I have my on line classes, along with many other terrific teachers, is have a grand opening blog party. If you participate you could be the fortunate winner or one or more free classes.
Mastering Decorative Painting Basics part 3
Each teacher is giving away one of their classes for free to a lucky commenter!
The way to win is to leave a comment on any teacher’s blog post with this message. You’ll will be entered for a random drawing for a free class from that teacher.
The idea of the list is that you can follow the party trail from blog to blog, leaving a comment on each blog you visit, therefore increasing your chances of winning a free class from one of the teachers you leave a comment for! Now how cool is that?!
Every class giveaway will be different because the teachers are generously each giving away one of their own classes. Gosh, maybe a really lucky commenter could win multiple free classes!! Now THAT
would be awesome for the winner wouldn’t it! Stranger things have been known to happen. 🙂
My free is class is actually all three of my Mastering the Basics of Decorative Painting classes! You get the whole series.
To win the opportunity for a free class from me you must leave a comment on this post and only this post. It helps me keep track of everyone. The party runs Sept. 23-Sept.29. I will use a random number generator to choose the lucky winner and announce the name Monday Sept 30.
Once you leave your comment on my post then from the list below choose the next blog you have not visited and leave a comment on their blog post. Each blog will have this list so you can move through the party leaving your trails of comments everywhere and increasing your chances of a FREE CLASS!
Go, go, go…tell your friends!!!!
COME VIST US DURING THE BLOG PARTY!
This is a fabulous list!
