This was an amazing course. I had so much fun playing and extending my skills and ideas I just cannot stop. I wish you had more online courses. I live in Oz and sadly can't attend workshops in person.
What amazing feedback, thank you SO much. 💝 I am so glad I was able to help you stretch and build your creativity. It what I always dreamt my course could do, this is wonderful to hear. Thank you 💕💕💕🤗🎨
Lovely to meet you. I've got lots of completed boring sketchbooks that I didnt know how to use them creatively. I'm nearly 72 and got rather excited about the torn ones. I did ut one and thought it was a stupid idea for me. I tend to change from one idea to another aand I'm sure I have plenty of pages that could have become interesting. Thank you introducing the your viewers like me to ponder.
Hello Leila ☺️ You are so very welcome. It’s wonderful that you are challenging and exploring your creativity. It takes time to get your head round this type of creativity. Just like you it takes me a while to see the merit in some pages. With other pages it just jumps off the page that something exciting has happened. Only the other day I was looking through my sketchbook and found a piece I was sure I didn’t like before. All of a sudden I could see all its potential. It’s an amazing thing to experience. I am so happy I could help you make your sketchbooks exciting again and ignited your curiosity. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me. Warmest wishes Mel xx
Hello Melanie, I just discovered you this morning.. Lovely to meet you! I am from Montreal, Canada and my question is: once you have done an exciting collage from your sketch book... how do you transat it on a canvas? Thank you for your answer. I look forward to it! Lucie
Hello Lucie … lovely to meet you too. There are soooo many ways you could do this, here is one you could try. In fact this is what to used to do when I first started painting and experimenting again. Block in your background with the colours in your chosen colour palette the same ones as your collage maybe? When I say block in … I mean place the colours in the approximate places they are in your collage, but allow them to evolve. Treat the canvas like you are preparing a piece of collage paper. Move the paint or ink around with your brush allow drips and runs. Promote and encourage creative mark making on the surface of your canvas. Then start to make some collage papers using your colour palette … make sure there are a variety of tones as well as colours so you have a range of dark tones … light tones and mid tones. Then start to collage the paper onto the canvas … enjoy the process of allowing the composition to continue to evolve. Don’t get stuck replicating your original collage. See it as a spring board for your canvas, it’s not there to replicate. Then paint into your collaged canvas pulling out the key parts of your composition. What will the superstar be … (depending on your subject) is it the light, a tree etc … The main thing is to keep having fun … just because your working on canvas … don’t let it hold you back. See every canvas as a new experiment, more fun to be had. That’s when the magic happens. Enjoy 🤗🎨 Mel
This was an amazing course. I had so much fun playing and extending my skills and ideas I just cannot stop. I wish you had more online courses. I live in Oz and sadly can't attend workshops in person.
What amazing feedback, thank you SO much. 💝 I am so glad I was able to help you stretch and build your creativity. It what I always dreamt my course could do, this is wonderful to hear. Thank you 💕💕💕🤗🎨
Lovely to meet you. I've got lots of completed boring sketchbooks that I didnt know how to use them creatively. I'm nearly 72 and got rather excited about the torn ones. I did ut one and thought it was a stupid idea for me. I tend to change from one idea to another aand I'm sure I have plenty of pages that could have become interesting. Thank you introducing the your viewers like me to ponder.
Hello Leila ☺️ You are so very welcome. It’s wonderful that you are challenging and exploring your creativity. It takes time to get your head round this type of creativity. Just like you it takes me a while to see the merit in some pages. With other pages it just jumps off the page that something exciting has happened. Only the other day I was looking through my sketchbook and found a piece I was sure I didn’t like before. All of a sudden I could see all its potential. It’s an amazing thing to experience.
I am so happy I could help you make your sketchbooks exciting again and ignited your curiosity. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me. Warmest wishes Mel xx
Hello Melanie, I just discovered you this morning.. Lovely to meet you! I am from Montreal, Canada and my question is: once you have done an exciting collage from your sketch book... how do you transat it on a canvas? Thank you for your answer. I look forward to it! Lucie
Hello Lucie … lovely to meet you too. There are soooo many ways you could do this, here is one you could try. In fact this is what to used to do when I first started painting and experimenting again.
Block in your background with the colours in your chosen colour palette the same ones as your collage maybe? When I say block in … I mean place the colours in the approximate places they are in your collage, but allow them to evolve. Treat the canvas like you are preparing a piece of collage paper. Move the paint or ink around with your brush allow drips and runs. Promote and encourage creative mark making on the surface of your canvas.
Then start to make some collage papers using your colour palette … make sure there are a variety of tones as well as colours so you have a range of dark tones … light tones and mid tones.
Then start to collage the paper onto the canvas … enjoy the process of allowing the composition to continue to evolve. Don’t get stuck replicating your original collage. See it as a spring board for your canvas, it’s not there to replicate.
Then paint into your collaged canvas pulling out the key parts of your composition. What will the superstar be … (depending on your subject) is it the light, a tree etc …
The main thing is to keep having fun … just because your working on canvas … don’t let it hold you back. See every canvas as a new experiment, more fun to be had. That’s when the magic happens.
Enjoy 🤗🎨 Mel