Creative Paradise

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Art, Cereal Box Art, Daily doodle, Giveaway, Up-cycling

I find the pursuit of dreams more interesting and entertaining than the actual attainment of them.

For example, over three years ago I started writing a novel for kids ages 9 to 12. It took me about three years to complete a finished draft. After showing it to a few editors, they all agreed the idea is original, but I need to keep working on it to make it marketable for retail booksellers. After three years of work, I decided to put that project aside for a while. Gradually, I’m thinking about returning to it. I might take it in a new direction. I’m getting ideas again. That project is more about the pursuit of a dream than it is about attaining a goal. I’ve enjoyed the process of writing that book, and part of me wants to keep it to myself, because finding a publisher would mean allowing someone else to have a great deal of creative power. That’s a difficult thing for me to do with a project that I’ve poured so much of myself into over such a long period of time.

Now, for the progress on the 150 subscribers giveaway project. I mixed chocolate brown with white acrylic to make a light tan and covered the whole Cheerios box panel. Then I mixed  colors with white and brown to soften them –  blue, brown, raw sienna, green and iridescent gold. I applied the colors with a trowel. I had to be careful not to scrape the surface, because I found the paint will easily scrape off the Cheerios box cover. Then, I troweled on some pure irridescent gold as an accent on top. I also brushed the iridescent gold onto the side of the Wheat Thins box. I stopped here today, because I need all of this paint to dry before I continue.

An Apple a Day

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Art, Daily doodle, Giveaway

Yesterday’s post led to today’s doodle.

I have made just a little progress today on the 150 subscriber giveaway. I painted the Cheerios box panel with white gesso over the black. I discovered that even though Liquitex is more expensive, I prefer Liquitex brand gesso to the Dick Blick brand, because one coat of Liquitex is more opaque than this.

I used a trowel to texture the sides of the Wheat Thins canvas with Acrylic Molding Paste. The purpose of this step is to hide the seams in the top and bottom of the box.

Both of these steps require drying time, so that’s the most I could do this morning.

A Laugh A Day

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Cereal Box Art, Daily doodle, Giveaway

Rachel’s comment on yesterday’s post inspired today’s drawing. She said the doodle of the Sharpie rocket made her giggle, which reminded me how important it is to laugh often.

Now, here’s the progress I’ve made on the 150 subscriber giveaway project. For the technique I will be using, I needed a piece of cardboard at least a half inch larger than the front cover of the canvas on all sides. I cut out the cardboard from a Cheerios box, but you could also use poster board as a substitute.

I painted it black.

I painted the sides and back of the canvas black.

I didn’t paint the cover of the canvas black, because the cereal box will be pasted over it anyway, so there’s no need to waste paint.

Tomorrow, I will continue to show my progress. When the piece is complete, I will show photographs, and I will post an instructional video.

 

 

And the Winner Is…

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Art, Daily doodle, Giveaway

As most of you know, last week I announced a giveaway to celebrate the blog reaching the 150 subscriber milestone.

The winner will choose any piece of art from this blog. I will turn that selection into a full color piece of art by painting it on one of my box canvases. There were 52 entries. I went to random.org to generate a random number from 1 to 52. The random number that came up was #30.

And, the winner is…

Laurie – Blackbearyforest

Congratulations Laurie, You’ll need to choose which piece of art you’d like me to paint on the box canvas. Just send me an e-mail at Tim@TimCoffeyArt.com, and we can make arrangements.

Thanks to everyone for following the blog and participating in the 150 subscriber giveaway!

Happy Day!

150 Subscriber Giveaway

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Giveaway

I had planned a giveaway on this blog when it reached 100 subscribers, but I was a little late getting it together, so it has turned into a 150 subscriber giveaway.

 

 

I will be giving away one of my cereal box canvases. In this case it will be a Wheat Thins box canvas. The winner will choose their favorite piece of art from this blog and I will cover the canvas with it and paint it up to create a finished, original piece of art.

To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on this specific blogpost – it must be on this blogpost to be entered into the giveaway. The cut-off point will be midnight, September 27th. I will choose the winner on the morning of September 28th.

If you would like to know how I made this canvas from a Wheat Thins box, I hope to put up a how to video on my Youtube channel this weekend. I won’t be announcing this giveaway on my Youtube channel, because this one is for followers of this blog only!

Good luck to all who enter!