In yesterday's post there is an amazing giveaway that includes a copy of the book that I am so excited about, Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu: Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish. I thought I'd share a little bit of its yumminess with you today. It is simply packed with great techniques like this one on the basics of creating opaque versus transparent layers. I love when things are broken down in a way that makes them totally do-able.
Click on this page from Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu to enlarge and read about how to use gel medium to thin paint when working on a mixed-medium piece of art to create layers.
More about the new Quarry book:
Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu:
Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish
Growing out of her popular online workshops and videos, Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu takes you step by step through the process of drawing a folk art and stylized girl’s face. You will learn to create simple, balanced features and add shading with colored pencils and paint. From there, you will learn how to draw the rest of the figure and put it into a unique, textured, mixed-media background.
—Learn to design costumes and personalities for your girls and adapt them to fit your own artistic style.
—Create vivid, exciting backgrounds by layering paint, collaging with fabric, carving beeswax, distressing wood, and building up texture with mediums and pastes.
—And on the accompanying DVD-ROM, which you can play on your Mac or PC, there is a mini-workshop full of whimsical mayhem, motivation, and real-time video with Suzi Blu showing you detailed drawing and shading techniques for faces, beeswax finishes, and how to make a mixed-media art journal start to finish.
Known for her quirky videos and down to earth style, Suzi Blu is a leader in teaching art to women all over the world through her online school Les Petit Academy. She lives in a gypsy cottage in San Diego, California with her best pet friends Gigi Rainbow Sparkle and Finnegan Glitter Sunshine Magic. She encourages everyone to be an artist. Visit her blog at http://suziblu.typepad.com.
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