Elegant or completely mad?

The theme at Sunday Postcard Art this week is Winter Elegance.  Whilst looking for inspiration I came across a French fashion advertisement from the 1920's showing a woman in a very fine winter coat.  Without thinking any more about it I decided that I would paint it.

Stop following me you creep! 

The more I sketched and painted the more ridiculous the image became.  What on earth was being depicted here?  They are supposed to be selling coats and dresses!  Instead they have a rather elegant lady in high heels perilously close to the edge of a drop, while a man in a car looks on horrified.  Love it :)

It is painted on heavy duty card stock using Golden Fluid paints in a lose style.  I finished off some pieces with inktensils and coloured pencils.  I really should have put more work into the detail, but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Who's knocking at the door?

This week the Sunday Postcard Art theme is Doors.  I'm quite a fan of old doors and have lots of photo's so was mildly tempted to try some digital art, however since I love to play with paint and glue I decided to stay with mixed media.  If you would like to see the video of it being made, it's Here and is approx 11 mins.

A very tiny key can open a very heavy door - Charles Dickens

 I'm really happy with the way the faux wood planks turned out and the 'brass' heads to the screws.  You can barely see from the photo above but there is a strip of copper at the base of the door treated with verdigris paint.  I bought the copper strip from a garden centre, it's designed to keep snails out of plant pots!

The door handle (ring type thing) was originally holding two little keys.  One of the little keys is now hanging from the birds beak.

Once again, I had a great time doing this and loved every minute.  

Travelling Light

I was well ahead of myself for the Sunday Postcard Art this week in the theme of 'Travel'.  I worked out a design and created it yesterday.  When I woke up this morning and got ready to take a picture, it just didn't look like anything I would create.  It was so sombre and bland.  All kind of beige on beige if you can imagine that.

A new way of looking at things

I started again with the same basic concepts but got out some lovely colourful ink (Dylusions London Blue and Vibrant Turquoise.) And could not resist adding some colour to the Union Flag.

The tickets were stamped with an Indigo Blue plate called Travel on various coloured paper with various archival inks.  I then cut them to ticket shape and punched the little half circles using a single hole punch.  There is a ticket wrapped around the card at the top right hand side with a hole punched right through the card.

Steam punk Traveller

The steam punk traveller and the sentiment are stamped in StazOn Jet Black.  Steam punk man had his binoculars 'enhanced' with some bronze paint applied with the lid from a waterbrush.  And the reflection on his lenses is create with a white souffle pen.