Graffiti Piece Finished!

In my last post (here) I showed the photograph inspiration for this piece, commemorating my first Future Dog Guide puppy, Dime. Thanks to some very tired puppies, I found more studio time and managed to get this piece in my Graffiti series done!

I free motion stitched the bricks using a cream thread before adding the letters to make up Dime's name.

As with the first in the series, I carried some of the brick and paint elements over the side so they would add interest to the sides of the canvas.  You can see that in the next two images.

And finally...the puppy wall...I can't wait to foster more puppies and keep adding to this commemorative wall!

Dime Graffiti Has Been Started...

Another busy weekend has just passed, but I did manage to fit in a bit of time in the studio to start my Dime piece in my graffiti series. I did the first piece (see post here) with Yoshi, my current Future Dog Guide puppy, as the subject and I liked it so much that I've decided to make a keepsake piece for each of the puppies I foster.  That of course meant I had to go back and do one for Dime, my first foster puppy.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Dime, so I had to incorporate it in the piece.  I imported it into Photoshop and started having fun! 

Once digitally altered, printed and transferred onto fabric, I pulled out some of the new acrylic paints from the DecoArt Media samples that were recently sent to me, and I started adding elements with various found objects, stencils, and a small paint brush to add to the digitally altered image I had created.

Hopefully I'll find time in the next few days to get to the sewing machine to add some stitch.

And for those interested...puppy update...

(L - R) Shamus, Gracie and Yoshi, all Future Dog Guides

This weekend Yoshi and I babysat Gracie for another foster family.  While she was staying with us, we participated in two more Santa Claus parades, one Saturday afternoon, and the other on Sunday evening.  

Fortunately the parade in the afternoon and a long evening walk tired the girls out enough to give me some studio time Saturday night.

Yoshi (7 mths) in back, with Gracie (5 mths)

It sure is fun having a puppy friend for a sleep over! Yoshi and Gracie had some wonderful 'bitey face' sessions and really enjoyed running around the yard together.

Christmas Came Early!

Dare I say I must have been a very good girl this year? Santa came early, in the form of a wonderful DecoArt rep named Rosemary!  You see, Rosemary contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if she could send me some samples of DecoArt's Media line of products. You can only imagine how totally shocked (in the best way possible!) I was when a received a huge box FULL of these incredible art supplies!

To quote their website:

DecoArt's Media program includes products formulated to work seamlessly together to create amazing mixed media art.

Included in the line are fluid acrylics, antiquing creams, misters, gessoes, mediums, crackles, varnishes, and textures.

There are fabulous colours of misters as well as four additional shimmer misters!

These three jars are various crackle products...crackle glaze, crackle paint and crackle paste.

There's a variety of mediums, gessos (black and white), tinting base, varnishes and texture pastes. I can't wait to try out the Liquid Glass...how fun does that sound!

This collection is a variety of different colours of antiquing creams.

And last but not least, an incredible range of DecoArt Media fluid acrylics!  I can't believe all the luscious colours! There's even a couple of metallic fluid acrylics...

and five different interference colours. These are fabulous since they change colour depending on the light and angle at which you view them!

Thanks again to the wonderful folks at DecoArt for giving me the chance to explore these products. I've only had time to dabble a tiny bit, but I'm liking what I see! I can't wait to get some studio time so I use these new media in my next piece of art. Until then, I hope you're all having fun and keeping busy!