"Prepping for Valentine's" Art Party

This Saturday, the 31st we are getting our valentine's feels on over at my place.

Check out the invite for some ideas and come over to make something for yourself, your family or someone special.

Love offerings suggested of $5 or $10 depending on the supplies you choose.

Can't wait to see you there! Bring drinks or snacks and I'll have all the supplies and advice!

*Image above is from google. This and other painting or paper crafts are options for this Saturday. 

Art Party: Take One in Jacksonville, FL

A couple of my amazing friends came over this weekend for an Art Party! The inspiration was from this blog post and tutorial. 

Here I will show how with my amazing and creative friends their projects morphed into different things all their own. 

We started with a paper wrapped table, protected chairs and floor (the apartment is new and my boyfriend would want me to keep it as nice as possible). And we used masking tape as a tape resist on the canvas, so that everything covered in tape would have an edge and remain white like the blank canvas. 

Jenni decided to make a design out of basic shapes and repetition. Her cohesive color scheme really brings the focus to the spiral and it's topped off with a little "oomph" of glitter. It will go in the soon-to-be-baby's room!

Kat took a different approach and was inspired by pinterest/google images of love birds, so she made a tape resist tree and border, and painted around it. Her use of glitter was for both accent within the piece on the tree and as a glamorous border. 

Liz loves greens, pinks, purples and blues. She is bold and full of life which is reflected in her painting with broad strokes of tape resist (turned glitter) and vibrant colors. Sorry, I don't have any completed photos to post at this time. 

The ladies brought their own snacks or drinks, I provided the use of my kitchen, glassware, and all the art supplies. Next time I will give a bit more guidance on the glitter (per their request). But overall this was a free space to create, where I encouraged them to try a new technique and see what they could do with it. 

I'd say it was a success! Thank you for being a part of this evening ladies!

More events happening later this week down in Naples, FL. Check out the invite here! All proceeds are going to advance my indiegogo campaign so that I can grow Chelsea Rose Art through postcard sales and Art Party events! Can't make it to an Art Party, but want to support me? Consider contributing to the campaign and get perks of my artwork! 

Pumpkin Painting Party!

We are less than a week away from Halloween and it's high time for the pumpkins to be carved, decorated or arranged. I have taken my pumpkins to my office job to greet the passerbys and liven up my space.

The neat trick I worked with in this mini painting session with my friend Liz was to use blue painter's tape to block out the spaces for the jack-o-lantern faces and then we could paint the rest of the pumpkin with acrylic paint, however we pleased! This proved to be a bit less stressful then designing a full face with just a paint brush and way less clean up than if we had carved!

The pumpkins had a couple of tricks to them - we realized bigger pieces of tape were a bit better, a clean press down and light sponge brush movements near the edges were important. and careful removal of the tape was crucial to the overall effect. I found that after it was all dry, I wanted to add details in black glitter paint to give it some more dimensionality. The acrylic paint could use a clear coat to give the seal more durability but I enjoy the matte effect of the black contrasting with the glitter.

Such happy faces at the office!

What have you done for your Halloween decorations? Do you want to give this a try? If you are in the Jacksonville area, I have some availability for the afternoon/evenings of this week. Contact me! Let me know if you try something similar, I would love to see other people's examples!

Happy creating!

Chelsea Rose