ColourArte Design Team Call

Hello Friends

Today I want to show you my project for ColourArte Design Team Call 2016. 

I decided to reapply, because I love this wonderful team and the gorgeous ColourArte products, and still want to work with them. My project is a Gond Art Painting, with lot of Primary Elements Arte Pigments.

This is a 30x45 cm painting on Canson 300gsm paper. First I would like to share a bit about Gond Art style of painting . 

Gond Art is a folk/tribal art form of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is a Gond belief that viewing a good image begets good luck. The subject matter in Gond paintings extends from myths and folktales to images in their daily life. The most striking thing in Gond paintings is the 'detailing' or repetitive patterns used to paint mainly trees, birds and animals (each having a story of their own ).

Each Gond painting has its own poetic tale, myth or lore which recreates the familiarity and awe with which the Gond people view the natural world.

I started with drawing freehand the design on the paper..........

then I sprayed some light colors of Radiant Rains Sweet Whisper, Sea Foam and Honey Dew to get some color on my page........

I decided to use the Primary Arte Arte Pigments as acrylic colors............you can make your owm acrylic colors with The Solution....the wonderful new product from ColourArte which allows you to create your own sprays and paints...........

All the colors used here are made mixing the Arte pigments with The Solution to create acrylic opaque paints. These paints are ultra smooth and you can make them as thick or fluid by adjusting the amount of the Solution. they dry real quick too, Here you can see Autumn leaf mixed with The Solution to paint the Tortoise........

I have used Mystique Blue, Pink Anthurium, Kiwi , Dragon Fly and teal Zircon Arte pigments and the solution to paint all the different elements here. After the painting with custom made acrylics is over, one needs to create texture by pens. I have used Micron 08 to outline all the elements and then the Isomars/Rotring Isograph 0.3 pens and the Rotring Inks in black and white to add texture. The Rotring pens have a refillable reservoir for ink,  you can see the fine precise tip and the ink reservoir in this pic........

The paint ..and then the fine texture with pens..............

Later I added some more texture all over with stamping with Archival black ink and texture stamps....

some stencils and Radiant Gels in Emperers Gold and Varoom Red..........

some close ups ..........

ColourArte Supplies :

The Solution Acrylic’Wash” Medium

Primary Elements Bolivian Blue

Primary Elements Majestic Blue

Primary elements Teal Zircon

Primary Elements Pink Anthurium

Primary Elements Dragon Fly

Primary Elements Kiwi

Emperor's Gold 2oz jar Radiant Gel

Vavoom Red 2oz jar Radiant Gel

Radiant Rains Sweet Whisper

Radiant Rains Sea foam

Radiant Rains Honey Dew

Other Products:

Isomars Pens, Rotring Inks in black and white

Micron 08 pen

Archival ink Black

DecoArt stencils

texture stamps Prima

This post is also my post for today at the ColourArte blog, I do hope you would leave some love for me on the ColourArte blog here

Please do leave your comments. I would love to read what you say and I would love to visit your blog too !!