Rosemaling Witch Hat

Hello Dear Friends:

For Halloween,  I designed and painted this Witch wood hat pin in the "Rosemaling" style...
in the Traditional Decorative Folk Art Painting from Norway...

I saw this witch hat in wood and I wanted to do something with a "Rosemaling" flower on it...

How to make this project: 

1- You select the main painting colors (background and 2 or 3 more for your flowers and leaves)
I use acrylic paints from DecoArt (Amercicana line)...
Note: Even though "purple" is not a traditional "Rosemaling" color I decided to use it just because I like the combination of the blue with the purple...
in creating there are no rules...right?

2- after selecting the colors you base coat the hat
3- Then proceed to draw a very simple flower (either free hand; as I did or copy/trace a flower that you like)

Note: I believe this one could be in the "Telemark" style because if the shape of the leaf...

- start by using some of the basic brush strokes ("c" and "s" ) to make the flower and petals
(if you do not know these strokes yet, simply fill in the empty shapes with color)

- highlight some areas of the flower and leaves  (with a lighter color)
and shade some others (with a darker color)

- add additional small strokes to embellish even more the flower ("s" strokes)
- finally  finish it with some linework to outline the petals and leaves

Finally, Give 3 coats of varnish
I used "Tripple Thick" glaze from DecoArt

Even though I am still in a learning process and I do NOT master my strokes I am very pleased with the results...

As Salvador Dalí said, "have no fear of perfection! you will never reach it!"
seeing this quote on the positive side, do not fear of mistakes...You are not perfect!
So I encourage you that even though you do not feel as an expert, or feel that you can not design your own pieces, just try doing something simple and small as I did. 
Practice and repetition will make you better and more confident day by day...without fear of making mistakes...
"Embrace your imperfections!!!"

This project was so easy and pretty to make that, as you can see in the photo, I made several hats to give away...

Last View...

I hope you have enjoyed this quick painting project 

Thanks for the company 

I will see you soon with another painting 

or paper craft project, 

stayed tuned...

Hugs

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Witch Pin with DecoArt

Hello Dear Friends:

For Halloween at my painting class with My teacher Carl Larson, we made this cute "Witch pin" designed by Jamie Mills Price called "Wichypoo Pin"

using DecoArt acrylic paints from the "Americana" line

Below, you can have a pick of my painting setting in my garage...full of paints, water,  brushes and wood!!!

To see the post that I made on my own designed "Rosemaling" black easel painting (photo)
click HERE

 below you can see the process of some of the steps in painting these cute lapel pins...

close up

finished with 3 coats of varnish for extra shine...

This product is great and gives an excellent shine

Last view of the group

 
if you would like to get this pin and design please visit 
 Jamie Mills Price Site: "Between The Vines" HERE 

Thanks for the visit

 and see you next time...

Paint your Own Coffee Mug

Hello Dear Friends:

One of the lessons with my Dear painter Teacher, Carl Larson, was to start designing your own piece...
and here it is what I designed...Y created this circular array of roses on canvas paper to be inserted later into my Coffee Mug...  and have a Unique mug...

The style chosen to start creating your design was "Canal Boat", painting.

First I gathered my supplies: a canvas pad of paper, some acrylic paints from DecoArt, Americana and a mug from "Starbucks"...(top left corner of photo)

here are some of the steps...

- Trace the shape of the insert from the mug (included in your mug) onto the canvas paper...
- Paint the whole background with acrylic paint in Black (or dark green: traditional background colors for "Canal Boat" painting)
- paint a cluster of roses and leaves in primary colors ...in a circular and symmetrical way
circles for the roses and ovals for the leaves with on top some comma strokes...

- add some filler flowers and various sizes of comma strokes to suggest movement

 - complete your design by adding strokes on top of strokes... (for shadows and highlights)

- here are some of the basic strokes learnt in class for this type of painting:
how to make roses in primary colors,  some leaves and filler flowers...

- when finished, cut the shape of your mug

- insert canvas onto mug

and here it is my finished Mug
front

back

side

History Note:
This style of painting is also known as "Narrow Boat Painting" and it is the colourful folk art from England that was used to decorate working narrow boats used on canals.
By the end of the 19th century it was common practice to paint roses, various other flowers, castles, churches and cottages on narrow boats, their fixtures, fittings, furnitures and even utensils, known as canal ware.

Instead of using a more "traditional" utensil as in old times (such as buckets, milk cans, metal boxes etc)  I decided to give to this "old" style  a more modern approach and use an every day mug from "Starbucks"...
An old idea combined with a 21st century every day utensil...

I hope  this gives you some ideas on how to incorporate the old with the new

and create your own custom coffee/water mug!

Thanks for the Company

and see you next time 

for another craft/painted project ...

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"Zhostovo" Workshop with Misha

Hello Dear painter friends:

I had the fortune to attend for a second time a "Zhostovo" workshop ....

These are my 2 finished projects: 

a metal plate 

and a salt blue box....

with the Master Painter Mikhail Lebedev, AKA as Misha.

Misha comes strait from Zhostovo, Russia and teaches his workshops in various cities once a year in the spring time in the USA ...I consider myself very lucky to live near San Jose, California and be able to attend his beautiful workshops!

a bit of History:
"Zhostovo" is a 19th old century folk handicraft of painting on lacquered metal trays from Russia.
Its most used motif is a bunch of mixed flowers, the trays usually have golden edges and finished with 3 layers of light lacquer.
This art form represents a whole unit in itself in the Russian folk art and it is know as "Zhostovo Factory of Decorative Painting"
It is still painted in a factory in the village of "Zhostovo" near Moscow by master painters, such as Misha.

These are some of Misha's works ...

plates...

sample boards

wooden boxes...

in browns

and a collage/details of his beautiful flowers...

2017 workshop

This time around I took the time to document the whole process and now I can share it with all of you...

This year we had the huge task to make 2 amazing projects...
a salt blue box (here it is my finished box)

and a plate...
(my metal plate)

here is Misha working in the salt blue box

his setting: a large bucket of water, a palette, some brushes, paints (DecoArt),  paper towel and that's it!!!

even if he has several brushes he only used throughout the whole project these 3 brushes!!!!

here are some shots of the participants...

I will share with you some of the very basic steps 

of the salt blue box project that we did in class

at home, in order to accommodate the 2 projects into the length of the workshop
we had to do some prep work before going into class...

Salt Blue Box

step 1;
We used throughout the whole workshop acrylic paints from DecoArt, Americana line...
basecoating the salt box

placing the pattern onto the salt box...

base coating all the flowers
this is the lid of the box...

step 2;
in this 2nd stage, now in class, we added some shadows to the flowers and leaves (lid)

step 3;
some more shadows (lid)

step 4;
now onto the highlights (lid)

step 5;
at this point we added final touches, highlights and filler stems and leaves (lid)

here it is my setting and working on my box

view of the back and front of my salt box

This is my finished blue box...

side view

view from the top

back

The second project done in this workshop was a wood octagon plate...

Plate

For this project I decided to provide my own surface, a metal plate, that I bought at a garage sale for $1.00 !!!
I, first spray it with a metal spray grey primer...

step 1;
after tracing the pattern, I basecoat at home as the blue box before class, all the flowers

another view of my prep work before going into class...

here it is the finished center bunch of flowers of my metal plate

 details

finished plate

 

 next workshop???

We have the fortune to see what he is going to teach next year in 2018...
a beautiful trunk!
details of the different panels...

here it is the lid of the trunk for the 2018 project!
gorgeous right?

BTW; if you would like to order patterns with all the instructions/
or buy a DVD with step by step of a floral arrangement from Misha's work...
and or order some wood surfaces (such as the salt box)
contact Susie Lockwood,
who is in charge to distribute Misha's patterns here in the USA at 

"Creative Woodworks"

Thanks for the company

 in this long post

but worth while in order to

have a glimpse of what goes behind the creation of one of 

this Zhostovo masterpieces created by Misha. 

A wonderful and old style of painting 

from the region of Zhostovo in Russia

 that can not be forgotten...

Hope you liked it!!! as much I did ...

see you for another project!!! 
 

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