Something different: Painting with Acrylics

With the New Year, I've started a new crafting skill... Painting!!!

To be honest, I've never been very skilled at drawing and, well, I'm not very patient when I start something new; I like to see acceptable results fast! With this being said, this holiday's period, while waiting in CDG airport for a connecting flight, I discovered a promising magazine called "Mon Atelier Creatif" (what I got is the French edition but I think the original is a German edition which I don't speak - too bad!) with step by step explanations on how to paint a few different designs using acrylics. The designs were nice and the techniques looked easy enough so I got the magazine and decided to give it a try.


A couple of weeks later and, after a visit to a couple of Art's stores, these are my first two paintings in acrylic (both of them following models from the French magazine):

Feliz 2011!!/Happy 2011!!

After the holiday's break and all the travel craziness in the end of 2010, I'm back blogging!!! :)

So, to start with, here a few of the gifts I created for the holidays (note that the common theme this year was FELT!):

I made this case for i-Pods using a felt sheet bright pick that I measured to enclose the i-pod. Before sewing it, you need to decorate the side that will be the front. To decorate it, I used a small cut of another felt sheet in a matching color (in this case, purple) - I sewed both to the case-to-be and then glued with a hot glue gun a couple of glittering spots. After that, you can proceed to sew the felt case with a matching thread (in the case of an iPOD) don't forget to leave a small opening at the bottom for the headset to connect.

Then I made a bunch of foulard; all similar materials but using different techniques.

The first one was done using wool top and felting it with needles until the wool threads are attached to the fabric used for the foulard. The second one was done using felt sheets in different colors and cutting them in different shapes. I did attached the different shapes to the fabric using the felting needles again.