This month, our challenge has been to find inspiration in music. While we may turn up our favourite tunes in the studio while we paint, that is usually where our inspiration ends! We are pleased to say however, that our inspiration and yours has taken us by surprise. Pairing our painting kits with music has created a range of great ideas and we thought we'd round up a few for you.
Musical notes - when you're practicing brushstrokes, it can be fun to create something new with them and play with ideas without committing too much time in case your idea doesn't work out. These daisy notes by In Blume are a lovely twist on our Daisy Details kit.
At the Painting Table has created this lovely card by painting a little music using her liner brush. Painting with your liner brush is a little different to painting comma strokes but once you've mastered it, this brush is perfect for painting more delicate designs.
Carol recently went to visit friends in South Africa and got creative with her friend Ronel. Armed with some free music sheet printables, she used them to create a border before adding some liner brush patterns and hearts. We think the black heart would make a great Valentines card for the music lover in your life. What do you think?
Take a silhouette and decorate it with a few liner brush strokes to create your own unique design. Sandra used a mixture of comma strokes, lines and dotting to create this pretty pattern. For the strings she used a Micron pen. If you don't feel comfortable using a liner brush for the longer lines and swirls, why not use pens or colouring pencils and just use the brush for the comma strokes?
Get your hands on some old music sheets to create some Vintage vibes? Here we toned down the background (you don't want the music distracting from your painted design) using a little Antiquing. If you want to know more about how to do this, check out our You Tube tutorial.
Use a little music to create a centrepiece and add a little lace around it. Learn to paint our delicate lace design using our kit and then follow our great tutorial to build on those skills and learn to create your own patterns.
Jo from The Original Craft Co doesn't get much time to herself but inspired by this months theme, she knew the perfect project. Sitting unloved in a corner of her home, she dusted off her tired looking radio and gave it a new lease of life with our Vintage Roses kit.
Inspired by a song, At the Painting Table searched for this pretty flower and used her Folk Art round brush skills to create a version of her own. Once you've learned the techniques from our kits, it just goes to show you can create and paint so much more.
When we first came up with our monthly themes for our painting challenge, we thought it would give us a focus, a way to inspire us and we are so pleased that it has done that and so much more. Once again, we are blown away with all that you can do with a few brushstrokes.
Happy Folking!
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