mixed-media art – Ambrosial Frost

The Black Dress

‘One is never over~dressed or underdressed in a little black dress.’ ~ Coco Chanel

‘I think in black.’ ~Gareth Pugh

‘I’ve been forty years discovering that the Queen of all colors was black.’ ~Pierre Auguste Renoir

Instruction from Renee Mueller is available on YouTube.

She …

She always had that look about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. ~Joanne Harris

Watercolor background, acrylic paint, pastels for the flowers, some hand-stitching, and the portrait is sketched onto off-white paper and then cut out. Find all instructions on the artist, Renee Mueller on YouTube.

Tiny …

Jerney Marisha Art & Classes ~ Tiny Portraits, Tiny Palette Class This is another amazing class on beautiful paper. For myself, all the portraits I have made through the instruction of this class have such emotion, a unique kind of sadness that belongs to a family.

A rather large family who has resided in the same weather ~-worn huge old mansion for a couple of centuries. The one part of the home that is painted each year, come Spring, is the blue shutters. The kind of blue that reminds one of Wedgewood vases …