One Stroke painting-Rose and Butterfly

Hello everyone..
 One stroke painting is a wonderful technique for painting flowers.. It is very beautiful and interesting to paint..But the mst important feature of One stroke painting is that painting is done easily and also consumes very less time..

Check out some of my one stroke paintings in http://nenasarts.blogspot.in/2016/11/one-stroke-fabric-painting-flowers.html

One stroke painting works well on smooth surfaces ..It helps with our strokes and gives a cleaner look to the picture..

This drawing was done on my daughter's hand.Take a look at it and comment how you feel..

Have a nice day.. Keep on painting..

Acrylic painting-Red rose

Hello everyone..

In this post, I have posted a red rose that I have drawn using acrylic paints.. For this painting, I have used the same rose that I have traced from my kid's coloring book..

You can click this link to view that red rose post.( old one) 

The technique used to draw this rose is simple, different, less time consuming but looks wonderful.. (by the way, I learnt it in youtube😊😊)..

1. First I have drawn this rose by seeing the picture.. 
2. Give a dark background color as you wish..
3. Then I gave the shading using black color acrylic paint and water.. (for the whole picture)
4. Now, I mixed the red acrylic paint with a medium to make it thinner and applied it on the petals and left it to dry
5. Then , repeat  step 3 with green color for leaves and stem.
6.  Now, Give another red coating to our rose( Its optional.. It brings out the color nicely and makes our rose stand out) 

The end result looked like this..

 
 Thank you for your time.. Hope you liked this .. 

Have a nice day.. Keep on painting..

Zentangle patterns

"Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt"-Sir Francis de Sales

Hello everyone..

Last week I came across the term "Zentangle".. while I was surfing for Mehendhi designs..and I got an insight into the Zentangle concept..and it was a really fascinating ..Its more of a healing and meditating work rather than art...It is drawn by allowing our creative designs formed in our mind flow through a pencil onto the paper with no Error making or Erasing the designs but making everything we draw, work... Its purely about flowing with our creativity...

Things Needed:

White paper and a pencil/Black pen.. I have used a .5 mm black pen

Zentangle Patterns:

These patterns really brings the Best Art out of Black and White Colors...Surprisingly it also almost looks like henna/mehendhi patterns..So I have tried some of them.. Take a look..

I started off with a Rose..

Then I remembered Lord Vishnu's Sangu(Shell) and Chakra symbols.... So here they are..

Then came the traditional and beautiful Mango pattern...

I found that my mind was slightly relaxed and free after drawing these zentangle patterns..Also, all these patterns can be drawn as Mehendhi too..

Hope you all liked this..See you soon with my next post..Have a nice day..

Fabric painting-DIY-Red Rose

"In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love"-Baha’u’llah

Hello everyone..

This post has a red rose painted on poplin fabric.. This single rose painting is drawn by the  "color filling and outlining" technique with a tiny golden detail... Unlike the hand drawn flower of the last post, this artwork is done by tracing a pattern..






The pattern was found in my kids coloring book.. Believe it or not..the drawings available in kids coloring books work wonders if they are taken up as an artwork base..


Things needed:

A clean and ironed Poplin Fabric:
Poplin is a fabric woven with criss cross ribs of any fiber such as cotton,wool,silk,etc., which gives it a strong texture and it prevents any paint from oozing down through it. White poplin works well with most acrylic or fabric colors but any color fabric is fine. Buy Poplin cloth here

Paints:
Many different colors of fabric/Acrylic paints.



Painting Brushes:

1. A Flat Brush No:2 or 3(For color filling)
2. A lettering Brush No:000 or 00(For outlining)

Short and Stiff bristles are preferable..

Painting Frame:A painting frame helps to tighten the fabric and holds it in the stretched form.



Other Essentials:

1. An old cloth for cleaning brushes in between changing colors
2. An old piece of card or paper to place under the fabric
3. Clean water
4. A mixing tray(Optional in case we want to mix certain colours)

Tracing and Transferring the pattern:
The pattern which we are going to paint is chosen..The tracing paper is placed on the pattern and outlined with a pencil..

 

The tracing paper is placed on the back of the carbon paper and it is pinned on the fabric and the pattern's outline is transferred to the fabric..

 While transferring the pattern use the pencil on tracing paper as lightly as possible and we can outline it again with pencil.. If not, our painting's background will be stained, and also the stain caused by carbon paper on our fabric will be very hard to remove.

Procedure:
As this painting is done by "Color filling and outlining technique", We first start filling the base color of the rose and then outlining is done by the thin lettering brush. The following colors are used in this painting

1. Crimson
2. Leaf green
3. Golden(for detailing)
4. Black(for outlining)
5. Lemon yellow(For mixing with green)

We fill the rose petals with crimson color...

We color the leaves and calyx with leaf green color..Now for the stem we mix leaf green colour with a drop of lemon yellow and crimson.. to get a deep brown color ..

Outlining is done by lettering brush loaded with black color..




Tiny detailing is done by golden paint




The finished painting looks like this ..



Please leave your valuable comments below..

Hope you all enjoyed this..See you soon with another artwork in my next post. Have a nice day..