Sunday, 11 January 2015

Mixed Media White Flowers

 
Another daily sketch entry - really not one of my favourites. I layered so many bits of paper ephemera from a pile of scraps I had in my stash, and added some Tim Holts tissue tape strips. I applied clear gesso, and found that when I used my dylusions inks, they kept smudging even after drying with a heat gun. I eventually worked out that the inks seemed to need a porous paper surface to bleed into to fix properly....so lesson learnt. I glazed the whole thing and used white gesso to colour the flower illustration. It turned out OK, but I still find that layering in collage does not come that naturally to me. Hopefully with practice I will improve :)

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Cafe Parisien Collage

 
A crop from my latest collage made using stamped layers of tissue paper, and acrylic paints

Friday, 9 January 2015

Smile Even When The Rain Pours

 
Daily Sketch Project - More of an art journal entry than a quick sketch today. I have really gotten into using those beautiful papers you get in Prima paper pads and the like... and the sentiment seemed so apt for a gloomy, rainy grey day here in the UK :)

The Jewellery Shop Has Been Reopened!!

 
 
I do believe that I have virtually every colour in the rainbow represented in gemstones now!! I am such a colour fiend, must be those ancestral roots calling ( The Holi Festival in particular is something I would love to witness)

Thursday, 8 January 2015

Blue Steampunk Barnacled Seahorse



This is the second Steampunk Barnacled Seahorse in the series. I have felt very inspired by these two precious babies (lol) ...I think I will taking elements from these pieces and incorporating them into a metal clay piece. Anyway, the jewellery shop is reopening tomorrow, so this serves a sa gentle reminder :)

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Steampunk Seahorse Illustration

 
A doodle of a seahorse, embellished in my style with stylised barnacles and steampunk elements. This was not a 15 minute sketch by any means for my Daily Sketch project, but it is something I am thinking of doing for my future online arts shop

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Abstract Wintery Dried Leaves

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I have come to love Winter over recent years. I am especially enthralled by the way frost affects the flora and fauna around the house. I find I take more photos of bare twigs and branches than I do of the flush green display of Summer. I was using my camera as kind of view finder and noted the abstract geometrical shapes formed by interwoven dried leaves and branches...this illustration is a quick study in acrylic inks to capture those gnarly jagged forms


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Samantha Braund
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