Day 1 of Paintober and I am painting a simple flag with a couple of my favourite colours. Blues and pinks. I am painting postcard art in the form of a bunch of 'Mood Flags' which are colourful paintings in the vein of flags but are in relation to colour mood and sometimes emotion and senses.
October is also postcard month to send postcards so I feel this fits nicely.
Paintober is an annual event. In October you complete a month of daily paintings, where you either pick a theme or Prompt and then paint something in response to that prompt. I like colour and so this year my prompts are colour.
I have aired a set up episode of my prompts where I talk about this and paint the backgrounds in different colors which I am now using for the paintings.
I am using acrylic paint for these paintings, but you can use any kind of paint. The postcards are actually watercolour postcards, but I have given a base so acrylic works fine on them. You can just paint in watercolour if you want but dont pop a base on or do a set up if you use watercolour as the watercolour won't be able to react with the paper.
I am using the Cryla and Sennelier brand but I do have other brands and you can use any brand.
I am using a flat brush and palette knife and optionall other brushes and materials like oil pastel, chalk pastel, charcoal and watercolour pencils. Oh and the acrylic brush pens which I have found recently work nicely with normal acrylic paint. I have the Jimiao brand.
Episodes for this set of work are released every day around 6pm.
I am Zarina Keyani and you can find me on my website:
www.zarinakeyani.co.uk
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The paintings are available on the UK Artists website here if you want to purchase any. www.ukartistsonline.com/detail.aspx?title=Mood%20Flag%201&artist=Zarina%20Keyani
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So have fun watching and painting!