✌️Peace❤️Love🎶Music

027 Peace Love Music

My own design and I have proved to myself that I can use any font I like as long as it is installed on my laptop.  I can then print and cut them out to draw round.  That's exactly what I did here.

Here's how I did it

I sometimes like to add words and lettering to my pieces and in this case I wanted a very 60's, hippy feel to the art.  I have a stencil that I usually use but it is not a 60's font (or anything close to one) so I had a bit of a brainwave and it is very similar to previous templates I have used, with the only difference being, its a lot more tedious and time consuming.  It is also very much an experiment to see how well it works.  It also works out a lot cheaper than buying stencils that I will only use once or twice,

So, in Microsoft Paint I set out the words Peace Love Music and chose the font called 'Spicy Rice' to display it.  This font has a funky Nineteen Sixties feel to it.

I then carefully cut out each letter and positioned it where I wanted it on my prepared 8" x 8" canvas panel.  I secured it in place with a small piece of masking tape.  Then I very carefully drew around each letter with a sharp pencil.  See what I mean about it being tedious??

I then felt inspired by my last piece of Art, Psychedelic Swirls.  I wanted this design to be the background of each letter.  Another tedious bit.  So I got my tape reels and pots out and started drawing around them but only within the Spicy Rice letters.

I'm really loving this piece so far.  I can see it with a Pure Black Background and a few bright flowers scattered around.

I have added a Dove to symbolize Peace, Love represented by the hearts and Music Notes and flower power scattered around.  I think the Black background is really making those colours in the lettering stand out.

 

✌️☮ Psychedelic Swirls

026 Psychedelic Swirls

                            

I want to do a few more like this.  I needed to take a break from the house painting and wanted to do something bright and cheerful.  

Inspired by the paint pour picture I did entitled 'Lava Lamp' I wanted to give a mid to late 1960's vibe and I think it works well, some paints flowed better than others and the ones that didn't flow so well are noticeable unfortunately but this is a really nice result all the same.

I need to buy something called a Flow Enhancer that helps with acrylic paints.

Here I drew round a small reel of tape, a slightly bigger pot and then around a reel of masking tape, drew a couple of wiggly lines and chose my colours carefully, all while listening to some funky Jamiroquai!