Archive for February, 2010

Cookie Cutters and Art

Who says cookie cutters should be used just for cooking?

Why not let your creative juices flow and use kitchen instruments in your art? Great for adding texture to paint, impasto and modeling compound. Use glue, paper mache on canvas and use a variety of kitchen utensils to create interesting textures that can be painted over with acrylics.

Here’s a tip, shape out some paper mache or modeling compound and use a variety of different cookie cutter shapes to create 9 different shapes, then lay these down on the canvas in a 3×3 format.

Next, paint your whole canvas in a soft background tone, depending on the colours of your room – for example a soft baby blue or a pale pink.

Finally, pick out a darker colour to your babckground colour (eg: if the background is blue, then choose a nice lilac or violet) and paint in your 3D shapes that you made with your cookie cutters. A simple and effective artwork that could be used to dress up a nursery for a child. Great 3D shapes that children can touch and feel.

There are heaps of places to buy cookie cutters, and heaps of sites on the web where you can order online. A simple search under “cookie cutter” will bring up heaps.

Find a cookie cutter online at www.cookiecutteronline.com

Caricature King

Colleen Douglas-Molloy

Colleen Douglas-Molloy is an artist based in Logan City (Queensland, Australia) and has sold paintings internationally from her website www.magicpallete.com.

Colleen has been painting since she was a child and is completley self taught in all mediums.
Her strong connection to the earth and love of all creatures is her inspiration.
Colleens vibrant palette is a result of many years studying colour therapy for healing, a knowledge she uses to please the psyche.
many owners of her work have commented ‘Your paintings make me feel happy”
The artist says ” people will be drawn to the painting that suits their psyche.”
When viewing her works take the time to allow the connection between you and the painting to evolve. You will find the painting will evoke a sense of peace and tranquility with your inner self.
Colleen has won many awards throughout Australia ,where she lives with her many animals in Brisbane Queensland.
Her work in acrylics is outstanding with use of her “MAGIC PALLETTE ” to please the psyche.

Sell Your Art for Free – Oil Paintings Online

Free Art Gallery, Buy and Sell Art Online
OilPaintingsOnline.com was created as an entirely free service to help artists get their work out to the public. It is a non-profit organisation.

They have been involved in the internet for nearly a decade and in that time they have developed the skills and knowledge to know how to create and run successful websites. In fact, the site owner has built over 40 websites and currently manage one very large one.

This site is a way for this organisation to put something back, free for others. The owner has a passion for art, and in fact paints with oils himself. When he first started to sell his art online he found it both costly and complicated – he wanted a simple site that would enable buyers to tell him directly who wanted to talk about buying his art then leave him free to make direct contact and progress a sale privately – he did not want to be paying a middle man any commissions or having his conversations “managed” by a re-seller.

Find out more at OilPaintingsOnline.com

David Normal “Traffic Jam”

This is, “Traffic Jam”, a new painting by David Normal.

Visit http://www.davidnormal.com to see more work by David Normal.

Filomena Vanzanella

“Alien Contact”.

I just completed my Advanced Diploma Of Fine Arts at Tafe last year. I prefer to paint portraits and I also do a little with sculpture as well.