Gumnut Inspired

Art – Design – Inspiration

Category: Tools and techniques

  • My five favourite colours – part 2

    My five favourite colours – part 2

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    Liz

    Now for the remaining three colours in my favourite five.

  • My five favourite colours – part 1

    My five favourite colours – part 1

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    Liz

    Well, this is a pretty obvious favourites choice.

  • Speeding up the painting

    Speeding up the painting

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    Liz

    After a long drought on the painting scene (I’ve been beading instead), I finally jumped back into my acrylics with a couple of little paintings.

  • Exploring paper mosaics

    Exploring paper mosaics

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    Liz

    I had a great day today. I held a paper mosaics workshop at Goodwood Library. Eleven eager artists attended and had a good time. I gave a quick rundown on tools and materials and let them have at it 😀 It was great fun to see the different interpretations and experimenting going on and I…

  • Exploring butterfly paintings

    Exploring butterfly paintings

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    Liz

    This is an updated version of a previous exploration. I’ve updated it and reposted it here for today’s workshop participants and anyone else who might be interested. A new exploration on paper mosaics will follow shortly 😀 Do you remember those fun paintings we did as a kid in school – blob some paint on…

  • Creating a painting

    Creating a painting

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    Liz

    I’ve just started a new painting. This isn’t anything new for me, I start paintings all the time, but it suddenly occurred to me that it might be interesting to document the process from the beginning.

  • How to finish an acrylic painting – part II

    How to finish an acrylic painting – part II

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    Liz

    In my last post about this I spoke about the procedure as a whole, with a few whys chucked in for good measure. Here I would like to talk about the nitty gritty how.

  • How to finish an acrylic painting – part I

    How to finish an acrylic painting – part I

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    Liz

    One of the things I have always been concerned about since starting my business around fourteen years ago has been customer satisfaction. I will leap through hoops to make sure my clients are happy with what they pay for – it is a lesson I have learnt very well having spent even longer in customer…

  • H is for Hue

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    Liz

    The Munsell Color System was created by Professor Albert Munsell in the early 20th century.

  • G is for Grey

    G is for Grey

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    Liz

    Recently, greys have been a little baffling for me. Grey has always been a mix of black and white, but for anyone who has been looking at colour theory, as I have, will discover that the theory says that if you mix complementary colours (those opposite on the colour wheel) you will get a grey.…