NatureFootstep: acrylic

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Monica Johansson and NatureFootstep.com

I am interested in nature photography and photo art and travels
as much as I can to find new areas to document.
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Coils, twirls and mosaic

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Hi guys! Today I start with what I painted and finish with a coil mosaic.

Heartfully recorded!

On a single song old fashioned vinyl record disc. Acrylic color and die cut´s. "Framed" in PS!

Windy!

It has been windy for a while now and I thought I´d try to catch the motion. Captured with the tools I used. Acrylic on sketch paper A4.

Twirly Mosaic

During the years I created quite a lot of swirls and twirls from my photos. I thought it was a good idea to share some of them. Hope you like them. Even the Mosaics backgound is a twirl.

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I hope this day finds everyone great and in good health!

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Thursday, January 16, 2020

Exhibition Jungle and ice

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In the jungle!
Acrylic on water color paper A4

My exhibition in the library. My paintings and my sisters dolls.

Sisters!
This is my sisters work. The doll to the left is my sister and the one beside her in the coat is me.
My sister designed and sew the cloths and hairstyle we actually had at that time in our lives. This is the first time I could convince her to share them on the exhibition. And, people loves all of them. 😄

Flowers frozen in ice
For Rains Jagged and Ice. The ice is the same, the difference is the light and position.

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Monday, November 11, 2019

AEDM11 Blue abstract

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Blue abstract A5 watercolor paper Acrylic color

Blue abstract A4 watercolor paper
This is a dip on the first one when it was lots of color on it and before I carved that one for the abstract pattern. An old technique renewed. We used to do a simlilar one in school long ago.
I like the way the paint dried on this one.

This is the one I worked on. Started with painting it all blue with acrylic paint. Lots of it
😂😂

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Friday, July 12, 2019

Trial and error

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This is two photos merged and manipulated. It is a rosebush and a part of a walkway with flat stones. I like when the purple and blue colors pops up. :)

Sunset
This is another tile. Worked with acrylic colors and mostly, my fingers as pencil.

Northern light or whatever. At least that is what I aimed for.
I turned out to use both tempera and acrylic. I´m not sure I like it, but I find it interesting in a weird way. And I like the acrylic colors when you don´t blend them too much. I probably give it another try when days are getting darker.

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Friday, July 5, 2019

Just plying around with Cinderella, family and waterfall

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Cinderella, first try canvas 40x50cm
This has been in my mind for a few months now. I bought the carriage two months ago and tried to figure out what and how to use them. I came up with this plan but did not know if it would work.
Well, I learned what happens with the color. Turned out I had tooo much black color on the canvas. I wanted it to look like the right side all the way down over the carriage. But I too much black color coming down. I have ordered 4 new carriages, I have shown this one for a few people and they seem to like it. :) My daughter want this one if I create another :)

These are now in my daughters possession. The horseshoes are from a trip to Iceland. So, from small horses. Photographed on her silvery placemat.

I was given a black tile from a friend. It was quite fun to through some color on it. Sadly it is not working as art. It is too heavy to hang on the wall and you canpt use it to place things on it.

Waterfall, A4 paper for acrylic or watercolor work, first time I used it.

Waterfall, A4 carbon paper

Half way throgh the colored waterfall I had way to much white acrylic paint on the fanbrush so I started to paint the second waterfall. :) They did not take long to create and was fun :)

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Friday, May 24, 2019

Abstracts

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Copper birch abstract

Forest blur abstract

Whimsical tree´s texture canvas with shadow pattern, edited in photoshop

This is the "Whimsical Tree Goddess" project.
I saw the video on Youtube and thought it is a good exercise for handling pencils. First time I got the blending of Acrylic colors to my liking. It was well explained how to do it. So I was happy :)
Then I made a sketch of the treegoddess. And got stuck! It is hard to transfer the sketch to the canvas as the canvas surface is kind of, slippery.
So, for the time being I photographed the canvas texture and took it to photoshop for some fun edit.

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Friday, May 10, 2019

Universe and Transformation of field

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Micro cosmos - Mikrokosmos
In August there will be an exhibition in my town where every local artist can attend with three pieces. The theme is Micro Cosmos. I have created two small pieces so far. The shell is 12x12 cm and the canvas 12x18 cm.
I´m unsure which way to turn it. I created it as the lower one but my daughter sais it shall rotate to the upper one. What do you think? I would like the input.

Below I decided to share how some things evolve when I work

This is a field hole, I think they call it, where my daughter lives.

The same image with a PS filter, Angle strokes

Next step: channel mix1 o gradient map
Liked this one so I decided to try to paint it

So, here it is: the Field hole as painting on canvas. Acrylic 20x30 cm
I was using a roller, pencil and a water spray bottle. I liked the little dots created by the water.
Has very little in common with the original, right?

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Friday, January 11, 2019

Resin digital and acrylic color

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I made my first three Resin pieces. As I am not the girly type so I used forest items.It is moss, lichen and acorns. You might remember I tried several ways as I wanted to preserve the beautiful colors in the acorns. This seem to work.
I used a silicon icecube form for this but was a bit disturbed as it buckled. Sides are not straight. And there are bubbles in the first one but with tiny mosses and lichen it was expected and actually fitting.

This is one of my chain pulls. I edited it a lot in Photoshop, I copied the white pull and made an Extrude of the form. Then put it back on the background careful to cover the real pull. It worked :) :)

A while back I bought a set of acrylic colors. As I am quite unfamiliar with them I decided to open them up and see how they work on different papers. 2 white papers and the black carbon.
It is quite obvious what colors can be used on the black carbon paper. And probably on black canvas.

The tubes was filled to the limit and color burst out when probing the hole. I had to go and get a safety needle to prick just a tiny hole in them. I liked the burnt sienna a lot :)

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Friday, September 28, 2018

Birchbark and flip

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Birch bark

Birch bark face

Blue flip 3 leftover pour

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As I mentioned last week I have been to the forest looking for birch bark. The two pieces above was not too much ruined and I liked the look of them. Second one reminds me of a face. I can´t use them as sculpts so I took shots and did the rest in Photoshop.

The last one is created from leftover colors from a tempera flip I made. This one is still wet and was sitting in the sunlight. Loved the colors. A good thing with photo is that I can save even wet ones and use them. Maybe I make a poster from it.

Not sure I will make any more pours as I have to use a torch to break bubbles in the paint. I am not comfortable with it, think it is dangerous with the strong fire it creates. :(

Wishing everyone a great PPF

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Friday, September 14, 2018

Sailing and deer Testing pencils and blending

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Sunset deer

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I was playing with pencils and blending in sunset colors. Then I remembered I had this deer image so I put it in there. It is painted on a overhead plastic sheet. Thought I would have it on a window but it did not work so well. But adding a black background in Photo shop, it looks much better.

Sailing in sunset

This one was made at the same time as the deer above. But on black paper.

I like the way the acrylic colors interact with the black, carbon, paper. I might make a poster from it.

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Friday, September 7, 2018

Pastel flipping canvas landscape

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Still a bit wet

Dried

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Pastel flipping canvas landscape.

I did see a video using this technique so I thought I would try with a small one. You need a lot of colors foe this kind of work. But it is fun. For this one I realized I flipped the canvas the wrong way. I got a landscape instead of "flowers". No harm done, next time I flip it another direction. They are both dipped in the same "puddle" of color.

IF I ever receive the colors I ordered. It is not easy to get what you need around here :(

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