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#acrylics

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martiAn_illustration

I've made a mixing chart for my Talens Amsterdam Expert acrylic paints. They are the only acrylics I have found that stay the same hue and value dry or wet. Guess my favourites! Extra marks for spotting the labelling mistake.

Why make a mixing chart? Okay, it's a bit tedious, but saves masses of time, frustration and brain ache in the long run. It also teaches you a lot about how the different pigments "stand up" to each other. I definitely recommend doing it.

Photo of a 14x15 grid that shows how different colours mix with each other. Top and right are washes, bottom and left opaque.
#acrylics#painting#MastoArt
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Heather :chickadee:

And the second stone is a little one I made for myself, a "worry stone" to replace my old one which I gave to a friend.

This stone features thick dollops of gloss glaze on top of the dot shapes forming a raised/textured surface that is wonderfully tactile and lovely to rub your fingers over. It turns the stones into lovely little fidget toys or meditation tools.

Anyway, I'm really fond of this one! It feels wonderful to hold and to fidget with. It uses some of my favourite colours, too. :da_grin:

A small oval-shaped dot painted art stone, held loosely in my hand. The design is a rather simple or "classic" dot painted design, with a large centre dot and radiating circles of dots and teardrop designs surrounding it in colours of metallic pink, pale apple green, white, and metallic gold painted on a black background.
The stone held on an angle to the light, showing off the raised glossed bumps complementing the dots painted on its surface.
#DotPainting#DotMandala#MandalaStone
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Heather :chickadee:

I have a couple dot paintings to share with you today! The first one I finished up last week sometime, a rather detailed one with colours and patterns inspired by Princess Jasmine from the Disney movie "Aladdin". :da_boogie:

I really like the blue/turquoise patterns in this one. The gold shapes on the outside were an experiment, but they're also kind of neat! :mandala:

A photo of a round, flattish dot painted art stone. The main geometric design is composed of flower-like petals radiating around a star shape in the centre. The star has a large gold dot in the centre and eight purple "points". The petals around this star are filled with radiating teardrop shapes in gradient shades of turquoise and accented with gold. It's all painted on a black background.
The same stone, but angled a bit, to show more of the outer edge. Around the main flower design are large teardrop blobs of gold accenting the design, forming a decadent-looking decorative border.
Another on-edge photo, showing more of the decorative gold designs around the edge.
#DotPainting#DotMandala#MandalaStone
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Heather :chickadee:

A quick post and run… a couple of dot painted stones I made in the last week. The first one was just a free-handed geometric pattern I drew on the initial grid, and the second features pastel colours chosen by a friend of mine. The pattern for that one wasn't planned or anything, it just came out as I went.

(I playfully call the design in the second one "Pastel Butt-Stuff". X) I'm such a child, haha. :da_sweat: )

[Feeling low on spoons, so I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out with alt-text! Thank you! :da_cuddle: ]

#Alt4Me#DotPainting#DotMandala
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J.D. MacLeod

My 56th #AcrylicPainting is, once again, a visual that mysteriously popped into my head and stayed there. (As usually happens with any #abstract that I feel moved to pursue to completion.) There's something about this colour palette that seems to connect with me, seeing as I used this same one last year. I can see me using these colours to sub for the white/gray/black palette I'm accustomed to working with in my cartooning, and doing value studies that way. (I even have a vague idea for the next one...) [16x20, #acrylics ] #art #painting #MastoArt

an abstract painting of rounded shapes in bright red, yellow, and dark green
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Heather :chickadee:

This was a fun one! 🤩 Love the way the pattern turned out, and the colours! I'll have to try this design again someday…

(I made a silly error when glossing it that resulted in some surface imperfections, but they're not very noticeable, thankfully! And I learned what to avoid for next time. :da_sweat: )

A photo of a dot painting on a round plaster stone. the design consists of a six-pointed star shape filled with radiating teardrop shapes in metallic colours of purple, pink, and turquoise. The star in the centre is circled with scallop shapes filled with the same teardrop starburst patterns. It's punctuated with metallic silver lines and dots.
Showing off the side scallop designs and silver dots.
More of a top-down view, showing off the six-pointed star shape in the centre.
Holding the stone in my hand, 3/4 view. It's nice and shiny.
#DotPainting#DotMandala#MandalaStone
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