Thursday, October 1, 2015

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #17!



Oh yeah, time for the October Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #17!!  Find a word in the word search and make it into your mixed media challenge project for the month!!  Whoohoo!! So much fun!!! So click on the link ... and come join us!!  You will be so happy you did because this month's prize and sponsor are amazing!! One random winner will be drawn to win this prize pack from Grumbacher!!



LOVE these products!!  I didn't get as much time with my art as I would have liked in September - but in the time I did - I had a wonderful opportunity to work with these awesome Grumbacher supplies!!!  I used the colored pencils, the ink and the paint to create my fun Halloween Witches Hat!!  Here is my project for the #17 Challenge!


I stated out by sketching with the the woodless color pencils!  I fell in love with the idea of creating a witches hat!!  At first I started out with four .... but narrowed it down to my favorite curly brimmed hat!


I got the hat started, but wanted to create a tissue paper flower for the hat.  I mixed the blue and red acrylic paint to create the perfect purple that I wanted! 



And then I painted it onto tissue paper.... 


 And after it dried I made some random flowery shapes and put them together to make my hat's embellishment!


I got the canvas ready with a coat of gesso and a mix of white and black paint through a favorite stencil.  I wanted to create a grungy background.


Then I sketched on the hat shape and filled it in with the Grumbracher black acrylic paint.

I splattered it with Grumbacher inks and printed out a fun Halloween quote!!  I doodled and highlighted to finish her off!! Fun times with this challenge!! 
 

Please, come and join us at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge!! October is such a fun month to let your art go to places you didn't think possible!! 

21 comments:

  1. I love that hat , and photos of the fantastic process

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  2. love the hat - I think the one with all the hats would have been cool also thanks for sharing your step outs

    Barb Housner

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  3. Great background work - it really makes the hat pop.

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  4. Fab witches hat - I reckon it's owner would be a bit of a girly witch ! great background too...Esther xx

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  5. I like the whimsical curled design of the witch's hat and the purple flower. :-)

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  6. Very nice, I love the big hat and the beautiful background!

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  7. Hi Karen, your handdrawn witch hat is so cute and I love your mixed media background. This is certainly a stunning piece of artwork. Please also stop by my blog and take a look at my entry, http://stampfairy-helen.blogspot.tw/2015/10/thanksgiving-blessing-tag.html , thanks.

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  8. Love the jaunty hat! thanks for the inspiration at Mixed Media.

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  9. Love the hat and it was fun to see your process too!

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  10. Wonderful Halloween project, love the curly witches hat and painting the tissue paper to create your lovely purple flower to embellish the hat was such a great idea. Thanks so much for sharing it! Deb xo

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  11. Just love this! Love seeing how you did it too!

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  12. Gorgeous gorgeousness! Had to come on over to take a closer look and it's fabulous art. I love that you made it all about a witches hat, a gorgeous soft and textured background and the pop of purple on the flower is fabulous and makes the whole thing wonderfully eye catching. Thank you for sharing how you created it too - some new techniques I must try out Karen x

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  13. wonderful wonderful witch hat,.,,,,i love your hat...thanks for sharing :D

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  14. I love the background... and this purple! Thanks for showing the steps.

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  15. Love this hat, and that purple is great!! xxx Lynn

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  16. Beautiful Halloween project! The witch hat with the purple flower is fabulous. Fits perfect with the background. Also love the other hats that you have drawn. Thanks for sharing the process!!!

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  17. Brilliant project, loving the witches curly hat and a fab background x popped over from mmmc x

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  18. Your hat is amazing, quirky, fun and whimsical! The flower is fabulous, I do love purple for Halloween. I am fascinated by the woodless pencils that you used, I really must investigate them... Anne xx

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  19. What a fabulous hat! Fantastic to see how this came together. Jenny x

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  20. Haven't seen a tissue paper flower in forever Karen and I love it - so glad you did it in purple too - it looks perfect for the curly shaped hat which I adore.... dear me.... this sentence has no end!!!! So fun to see your process. So glad you just did THE HAT.... it makes me smile... it's wonderful. j.

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