Judith Kittel

This memory box design was inspired by some of my paper art I have used for cards & scrapbooking.  The idea was to make the painted sections of the box look like paper - making memories in a box, not a scrapbook . The background was textured to give the illusion of texture to the faux paper areas. Patterns were added to the sections using painting, stamping and stencilling techniques.  The card and buttons were adhered using Atelier Impasto Gel. 

I sketched and painted this clown using a clown image in an old Walter Foster book as the "model"  I used a limited palette of Chromacryl student paints in red, yellow and blue (a warm and cool red, a warm and cool yellow & a warm & cool blue) plus 2 or 3 earth colours.   I made the clown look younger than the original so I call him "the clowns son"

I started this painting years ago & it was left for a very long time with not much work done to it as I was very constrained to painting neatly back then  - I finally decided it had to be painted & finished so tackled it recently

It is painted in a DECORATIVE STYLE using JO SONJA PAINTS & MEDIUMS & I used Pthalo Blue & Pthalo Green with Titanium White and Clear Glazing Medium to stain the pine frame. When that was dry, I dry brushed straight paint (with lots of paint in the brush but with a light touch) in the same colours to give it a casual look

It is an original design of Carol Sharpe, a teacher on the Chroma Teacher's Programme.  I have taken a little artistic licence & changed some colours and created some lost edges that I wanted to have but it is not much different to the original design of Carols. I was glad to get him finished & really enjoyed painting him especially now that I am not constrained by "neat" painting

Any beginner painter who has gained some confidence using a brush would be capable of painting this delightful piece

Carol can be found on the Chroma teachers pages under S & she is in Ashmore, Qu