She was the queen of her own little world
— kate morgan
 

Welcome to my first Free tutorial!

Queen.jpg

I hope you enjoy it! This tutorial is a step by step mixed media collage making fun mushrooms and a beautiful queen with acrylic inks, collage, paint pens and more.  Materials I used will be in the links below:) But feel free to use anything you have on hand! 

materials list

Daler Rowney acrylics inks- Olive Green and Paynes Grey

Liquitex Transparent Set

I also used Dr. Ph Martins 'Aqua' but i can’t find it sold separate.  I don't actually recommend the set so I would suggest you choose an aqua from FW Daler Rowney or Liquitex

Watercolor Paper 300g/140lb. (9”x12”)

Water Brush

Micron Pen

Mixed Media Refillable Marker Pens (you can put ink in these)

Posca Paint Pens

White Charcoal or Pastel Pencil

Krylon Matte Fixative

Fine Precision Scissors (for cutting image)

Decoupage Paper (or anything you have on-hand)

Matte Medium

Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint

Various gel pens of your choice- i like UniBall and Gelly Roll

Masking tape

Assorted paint brushes: angle, round, fine

Water soluble pencil or gray paint watered down for stumps


 

Onto the image!

 

Our queen

For this project, I sized the image down to 3 x 5cm; heightened her contrast, and increased the brightness using PhotoFox (on iPhone). Otherwise she was just too dark. I also flipped the image. Right click the image and choose “save as” to save a local copy.

Click here to see the original photo

Credit Karina Tess on Unsplash.com - Click the photo to see the original

Credit Karina Tess on Unsplash.com - Click the photo to see the original

 
 
Mushroom Inspiration!

Mushroom Inspiration!

Mushroom Inspiration

Time to be a kid again and start drawing mushrooms!

 

 

Queen of her own little world: THE tutorials


Part 1

In this first part I will be introducing you to the materials and planning and sketching the mushrooms. Next onto the inking of the tops!


Part 2

In part two we finish up the mushrooms and their stumps and get our queen collaged on. Don’t forget to spray the image with the fixative first!


Part 3

In the finale we have fun with paint pens, gel pens and micron pen putting the finishing touches on the mushrooms with playful dots and line work and add a little more golden shine to the queen. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and I would love to see your work on Facebook, IG or message me!