Finally I had time to create a new canvas –
the first one in my new home here in Jersey City. And of course…if you live in an old pencil factory – you have to get inspired by your surrounding buildings :)
It was a bit crazy to work on the canvas in the middle of unpacked boxes but I am so glad I did. I think I will do a couple more yellow pencil canvases…
Here are some of the supplies that I used
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Have an amazing day
Nat
One of the things that people would say all the time to me while moving was “Breathe” – I have to say….It made me sometimes roll my eyes…because…LOL- “breathing breathing, everyday breathing… ” ;) To those of you who said it: Love ya – don’t take it personally – LOL – I know you meant well with it.
I had loads of fun with this canvas – and I used quite some fun materials like army duct-tape and x-ray foil.
I gave it to my former office…hehehe- I think my old working buddies can relate ;)
Here are some of the supplies I used
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BTW the x-ray foil is super sturdy and was the coolest material to do a project like this with this cut out and raised surface.
BREATHE ;)
huge hugs
nat
Love this! I’m moving ay the moment myself…what a hassle! I may make one that says: Breathe DEEPLY” Love your techniques! I thought it was stained glass at first. xo
Love this piece. Brilliant magnificent art..you are talking aluminum foil right?
Thanks for sharing marvelous art.
susan s
I just love the expression on the guy’s face on your canvas. I’ll have to check out x-ray foil now.
Wow, thank you for show you your work!
Please let me know when your classes begin. I am only 20 minutes away! I am art starved,lol.
What is x-ray foil? And where do you get it? Sounds like an interesting media:)
Welcome to my 7th Stencil Blog Hop! This time I invited 4 wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my StencilGirl Products Elephant March Stencil. It is a 9×12 inch stencil.
And I give away one Elephant March Stencil! Comment here for an entry into this giveaway! And if you also comment on all the other listed blogs I will give you an entry into the giveaway for each blog you comment on–how cool is that! You have five chances to win it. Leave a comment on each of the listed blogs and on my blog and let us know how you like the projects and I will pick randomly one lucky winner. You have time to comment till September 18, 2013 – midnight EST.
Here are my friends joining me this time :
Carolyn Dube wonderful artist and Stencil addict…give her a stencil and she does magic
Maria McGuire rocks the StencilGirl Talk blog and all kinds of beautiful projects
Marsha Valk Marsha my sweet and talented friend from the Netherlands
Jessica Sporn an amazing Mixed Media Artist and Illustrator who is soon an almost neighbor of mine ;)
WHY an elephant Stencil? I love elephants and we have a lot of family connections with elephants! My uncle Gerd used to work as a zoo keeper at the zoo in Wuppertal. His stories of the elephants always fascinated me the most. And as a little child my grandaunt Margot used to tell me the story of the Tuffi a female circus elephant who jumped out the famous monorail in Wuppertal into the river in 1950 (no elephant seriously hurt!). And I loved all kinds of stories elephant related…and Elephants can be represent so many things..memory, strength, mental strength, fun, intelligence. Need more reasons or an elephant stencil? Nope- LOL- ok…let’s continue on
Check out some samples here:
Here is what I created for today:
Loved working on this big canvas and applying layered stencils and collage elements and then spray paint – there is a lot of texture on this canvas.
So much fun how different all the elephants turned out
They make me really happy
Here are the supplies I used:
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Now hop on over to my friends and check what they did and comment for some changes to win the stencil :)
Have a wonderful day
hugs
nat
Love this elepant ,it is can be customed my iphone case ,it is magic.
Love this elephant! I would love to use it on fabric – it would make a plain T shirt very special!
The colors you used on the stencil are fab!! Just like indian fabric. Thanks for the chance!
Carmen L
Beautiful, elephants are my favorite animals. I have a collection.
Thanks for the give aways.
Karen
matthews.karen22@gmail.com
I am such an elephant fan! I love your stencil and would, of course, love to win it.
Elephants! Wow! Wonderful! and Indian print ones…. fabulous
love all of the different design elements in your elephant stencil! Makes it so versatile! Thanks for posting your work….love it! So hope you are enjoying your new home!!!!! and WELCOME HOME!!!! and oh yeah…thanks for a chance to win your stencil!
My favorite stencil yet! Maybe I’ll win something!, gfeat work, beautiful.
I love all the designs within the elephant – great for dimension and texture! Another awesome stencil.
love this. love the morrocon feel and beauty of this piece. great stencil. I’d love to have it. thanks for showing us all this
Fabulous stencil. I love the elephant!
Thank you for that wonderful opportunity to win that great stencil! I like elephants, and this one is very detailed. That’s what I like most about it.
Love the stencil. Like you say, elephants are symbols for soo many things. And your canvas is absolutely fabulous! I love the bright colours and the contrasting dark back ground that looks almost like a starry night! BTW, my German teacher in High School (Frau Brauer) often told us about the Zoo in Wuppertal and the elephants so it’s a small world ;)
I really love your elephants! Wonderful!
Love your project. The raised trunk just exudes so much joy!!
How interesting abt your family’s connection with elephants. TFS!
<3 J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
I love your elephant stencil. I too have an affinity for elephants. They seem so majestic. I hope you make a few more. Thank you
This stencil has my mind whirling with ideas
I’m really surprised at how much I’ve enjoyed everyone’s use of this stencil. I’m not normally that keen on animals but this stencil seems to work really, really well.
Love, love, love the elephant stencil! Love the way you have used it. Big fan of elephants–Roll Tide!
Great colours, great sentiment, great elephant
is a saying that I really love..it is basically saying “not my problem” and often times the monkeys definitely are not mine ;) As you can see I used my Elephant Stencil for Stencil Girl Products – which just makes me happy. Also lots of spraying and layering on the background
with a finish of Liquitex Pouring Medium which gives it a nice glass like finish. Love the stuff.
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have a gorgeous day without any monkey business ;)
hugs
nat
or in German: Kann ich…muss ich aber nicht. A theme that I should take more serious sometimes ;)
I had heaps of fun with this one :)
The stamp set I found again while sorting through my studio – they were the first stamps I created back then for my Product Line eMOTions for the french company Sultane. I still love them.
Here is the whole list of supplies I used.
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Have a great day :)
Nat
This is my favorite canvas that I created for the exhibition. Actually not only for the exhibition. I created it already with a place to hang it in my mind in our new home in Jersey City. It is a wall that is in the middle of our dining and living room – there is a little fireplace in the wall. So the plan is to hang this canvas on one side and make another one the same size 70x80cm (27.5×31.5 inches) – or the other side of the wall but with a Jersey City or NYC theme- have to see ;). mmmh- now I wonder if that is a size I can get in the States- better inquire – LOL .
Again symbols, landmarks and typical Hamburg-related things on this canvas.
I painted with Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylic Paints, Markers and Spray Paints.
After this canvas I am almost striving to do even bigger canvases…but then there is the question, where to hang it – LOL.
Have a colorful day today :)
nat
Welcome to my third Stencil Blog Hop! This time I invited five wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my Stencil Girl Products Crackle Stencil – size 9 x 12 inches.
And I give away one Crackle Stencil!Comment here for an entry into this giveaway! And if you also comment on all the other listed blogs I will give you an entry into the giveaway for each blog you comment on–how cool is that! You have six chances to win it. Leave a comment on each of the listed blogs and on my blog and let us know how you like the projects and I will pick randomly one lucky winner. You have time to comment till August 13, 2013 – midnight EST.
Edited on August 14, 2013: The winner is Neija, Congratulations. Neija, please email me with your postal address so I can get this stencil sent out to you 
, Nat
Here are my friends joining me:
Carmen Sanchez – aka Cuchy : Cuchy who lives in Madrid and I have been organizing our Art Mesa Mixed Media event in Spain for the third year already and I do love her as a friend and super talented artist too.
Cat Scanlon : one of my oldest artist friends who has released lots of wonderful products lately and wrote two amazing books on Mixed Media in the past too.
Marjie Kemper : Who does stunning work and blew me away already last week when she posted her take on my Circuit Stencil
Louise Nelson : My friend from Australia who has a stunning style in scrapbooking – and who has a wonderful soul too!
Maria Mc Guire: super talented and an ongoing never ending source of ideas and inspiration who also runs the Stencil Girl Talk Blog .
When I was thinking about my stencil designs – I thought about the stencils that I would love to own – and the Crackle stencil idea has been in my head forever! I wanted the closest possible pattern to real crackle effects and also in smaller sized cracks or bigger ones- so that is why there the stencil is 9×12 inch – which gives you lots of options.
Check out some samples here:
Here is what I created for today:
I created these three canvases for the hallway of the place where my exhibition took place last week. The writing is from a German song by Hildegard Knef and it could be translated into:
“I need a change of scenery”, said the birch tree and set off at the crack of dawn
I used the Crackle stencil throughout those canvases in it’s most simple use – with some Liquitex Modeling Paste spread over.
I love the simple texture effect you can archive with it. I had used my What’s The Point Stencil underneath with some heavy gesso directly on the canvas, then spray painted with Liquitex Professional Spraypaint, added the texture with the Crackle Stencil and applied a birch tree panel, some moss and a sprayed tree branch to the canvases.
Here are the supplies I used:
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Now hop on over to my friends and check what they did and comment for some changes to win the stencil
Have Fun
Nat
Love this stencil!! Your project is gorgeous as always!
Awesome stencil Nat!
Thanks for another blog hop and more versatile stencils! I love this one – soo cool!
Great stencil. Love how you used it. So much better than crackle paste which often doesn’t work. thanks for sharing.
This is a great stencil. Love the texture you can create with it!
Thanks for sharing and thanks for the give-away!
This is one of the coolest stencil designs. Love it! Fondly, Tami
What an awesome stencil you created. I can imagine so many uses for it. Thanks for sharing your art with us and for the inspiration. And also for this blog hop and the giveaway. I’d love to win. Crossing my fingers!
Awww! stunning artistic signs…love the moss and all the natural way used…Thanks for the opportunity, Nat.
Great project! Love the stencil!!
Very cool stencil and project!
Great stencil, would love to give it a go and try some of these great techniques.
Me ha encantado el trabajo que has hecho con este stancil.
Love the crackle stencil. It can be used so many different ways. Can’t wait to get one to play with
oh!la!!!!!!!!la!!!!!!!!!!!! j aime j’aime j aime !!
voilà exactement le stencil que je cherchais pour mes travaux artistique( ils ne sont pas sur mon blog)
et que de merveilleuses creations
bravo!!
So happy you designed some stencils, Nath! The best ideas come from within! Thanks for the chance to win it!!
Carmen L
Great stencils, N! You project is fun and I am glad you translated for us.
What an awesome stencil…!!!
Awesome crackle stencil! I love the texture you have created with this.
I love this crackle stencil !
Me ha encantado el fondo!! y el musgo le da un toque natural increible!!! Espero tener suerte con el stencil, ya que me quedé sin él en el curso ;) besitos
I love the look of the stencil
I love this stencil, these 3 canvases are amazing, love the colors and the moss too!
Woo hoo…enter me to win this cool new stencil please Nat!
Ou yummy texture, pick me! Sanna.
lovely! i think this crackle stencil is so versatile.
If you are a reader of my friend’s Julie Fei-Fan Balzer you probably saw her fun post about what she did with those photo booth strips that she and I took during her visit here in Hamburg. I totally love what she did with them – and I cannot wait to see it in person. At the end of her post she asks “What have you done to display your photo booth strips?” – and here comes my Blog Response :)
A couple of years – many years ago – my husband and I took a photo strip at a booth in San Francisco. It was one of our first really big trips together and I totally love this little photo strip. I went to a professional photography studio and asked if they could print it on a very large and long canvas. The photo strip itself on the canvas is now 4.5×24 inches- just to give you a reference – here is a pic of me sticking my finger out- so you have a reference ;)
At first the photoplace wasn’t weren’t sure it would work because of the resolution of the photo booth strip (my photos here are actually a bit blurry but the print itself is not) and because it is so much smaller than I then actually wanted it to be printed – but it worked – And I love love love it. It wasn’t cheap as I remember – I am sure you can get it cheaper nowadays – even just scan it in at a very good resolution, maybe play a bit in photoshop and then upload it to any of those services that do print photos on canvases. It is a great memory :)
Maybe I should have the Julie and Nat photo strips printed on canvas for my new studio :)
Have a gorgeous day
Nat
Today is the day of my exhibition – hahaha- you are probably as excited as I am just because you cannot hear the word anymore ;) Well – bah…don’t be too happy I will still post about it ;)
So this is the last canvas in a trilogy I created – I showed you the other two before here and here. The water tower is a very prominent landmark of my hood. It is set in a park and I can see it from our deck and our sleeping room window. I love this old building. They turned it into a 5Star hotel – which caused lot’s of protests …building wise I have to say though they did a really good job inside keeping lot of the old architecture. Otherwise it would have been awesome if this was turned into public space since it is in a public park…but Oh well ;)
Wish me luck !
Nat
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I love the colors and the building is fabulous. Techniques are used so well it makes the piece so interesting and I could spend some time looking at each little detail. The pencil is a bit contrived, but I think it will be a big hit, and probably the first to selll.
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Jackie
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Just gorgeous Nat!!
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Micki
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OMG, I LOVE this. It is so freakin’ awesome!!!!!
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Lea Kimmel
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Oh, Nat, I love this! Very, very cool! And, most appropriate for your new home! Can’t wait to see pics as you get it decorated and situated and all that fun stuff! You always inspire me!
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muriel
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Ah! I love how the building melts into the background.
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Kirsten Alicia
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Gorgeous canvas, love the colours.
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Amante del Papel
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I love the old buildings! this canvas is perfect!
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Ursula
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Deswegen hast du keine Zeit zu mailen ;)) Der Keilrahmne ist wieder sowas von genial geworden – und passt sowas von prima zu meinem ….. da winkt der Zaunpfahl meine Liebe ;)) Liebe Grüße Ursula
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marsha.
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<3!
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Di Fritzsch
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Awesome! (My favorite pencils, too) I love popping in to see what you’ve done to a canvas, and to find so many cool things… Absolutely marvelous!
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Jeanette - Tettiz
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Fantastic piece!! I hope to see MOOOORE from you and that the move to the US will give you LOADS of inspiration to create gorgeous things for us all to drool over! ;-)
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Laura Strack
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Beautiful! Glad to see you are inspired to create in your new digs.
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Jean A Marmo
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I just love this!! The colors are amazing!
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Sue Clarke
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Nice. Did you sketch that building Nat? Looks like a photograph.
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