Pebeo Porcelain pasta bowls with Peta

Painting pasta bowls with Peta

Hello Today I'm showing you a project I completed a months ago as I had a set of pasta bowls I'd picked up from a garage sale when I was newly married and they'd finally given up the ghost after 20 years of constant use. 

I sourced some plain white pasta plates and decided to use the same simple stripe pattern that I'd so loved from the old plates. The old plates had dark blue stripes but my kitchen colours are now black and red so I wanted to custom paint the new plates and continue on with the style of pasta eating my family has loved for over 20 years!

Here's my guide in snapguide on the very very simple process I used to create the pasta bowls. 

Check out How to Paint Pasta Bowls With Pebeo Porcelain Paints by Crafty Crusaders on Snapguide.

Don't they look great!

We use these pasta bowls about 2-3 times a week and they are just perfect to continue that hand painted tradition of the rustic pasta dishes I've always loved so much. 

This project uses a single colour pebeo porcelain paint and a matching pebeo porcelain 150 marker to complete the look. 

Remember to let these plates cure for 24 hours before popping them in a 150 degree oven for 35 minutes. Let them cool in the oven before taking the plates out. Do not place these plates in the dishwasher except on the eco option. I always hand wash these plates anyways as I can't fit as much in the dishwasher because of their curves sides.

Using Mepxy Markers and coloured pencils to create depth in your pictures

Earlier this year I experimented using a few different layering methods to colour an image. I had invested heavily in colour pencils for my Christmas gifts and wanted to find ways to use them with the other media I had on hand to create vibrant images with great depth of colour.

Today I'm going to give you some tips on how to combine Mepxy markers with some colour pencils to create a wonderfully vibrant and beautiful image. 

Here's my snap guide below to take you through some steps in the creation of this project. Just a work here. The peacock tail has by far the most work in it and for this particular image that's what took the longest time to create.

Check out How to Use Mepxy Markers & Color Pencils to Create Art by Crafty Crusaders on Snapguide.

Have fun with this project I loved the result I got with the deep colour of the markers and the additional depth I added with the pencils.

Letter Journals with Peta, Pebeo paints and Mepxy Markers

Hello Peta here again today. I though today I would introduce you all to a project I created last year called the Letter Journal Project. It's a small art journal swap where the emphasis is on 'lightweight' and it fits into a standard business size envelope. Traditionally we use copier paper in these journals to keep the weight down. This then present it's own challenges. How do we work on thin paper and also keep our heavy collage and no lumpy bumpy out of the picture?

That being said, I have found the Letter Journal Project to be extremely rewarding this last year. I have a full journal, where each letter journal is a signature. Here's my Letter Journal book for 2014.

So today I'm working in a letter journal that had a few blank pages in it that I wanted to have some fun with. I'm using pebeo acrylic paints with glazing medium and some old book pages and mepxy markers for a little contrast. 

Have lots of fun with the video, I did making it!

Mepxy Marker Drawing - Elsa from Frozen

Elsa Mepxy Marker Drawing

By Natalie Wyatt

Hey all! Natalie here!

So I've got for you today a video tutorial of this Elsa Mepxy marker drawing. 

I completed this drawing for experimentation as I wanted to try layering colours to create a semi-realistic piece. As often I would mainly use the markers for cartoon cell shading.

I learnt heaps while making this and I hope you do too, or you feel inspired watching!

The video gives you steps and tips to drawing as well as listing the different colours I used to shade this drawing. I used a combination of the Brush markers (white casing) and Design markers (grey casing) for this drawing but all the colours can be bought in either range. :)

Below is a grid with all the Mepxy colours available.  

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Please send us your work or anything that you create! Thanks for watching!

 

Natalie Wyatt

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