According to TEDxColoradoSprings: “Andrew Morrison and his wife, Gabriella, are the creators of “hOMe”, the 207 SF (+110 SF in lofts) modern tiny house on wheels. They live and work in hOMe full time, off grid, and debt free. With the extra time and money that they have they travel and enjoy time together as a family.”
“Andrew Morrison has been a professional builder for 20 years and has been teaching people how to build their own homes in his hands on workshops since 2004. In that time he has personally taught over 1,400 participants how to hand craft their own homes and has seen again and again that anyone with passion and perseverance can build theirs too. Andrew and his family’s personal experience with tiny housing came while living in the “American Dream” home. Frustrated by feeling like slaves to it, they got rid of 90% of their worldly belongings, bought a pop up tent trailer and spent nearly five months reassessing what “home” meant to them while living in Mexico. “
Tiny House Movement by Andrew Morrison
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
And here a brief summery of TEDx programs: “TEDx is an international community that organizes TED-style events anywhere and everywhere — celebrating locally-driven ideas and elevating them to a global stage. TEDx events are produced independently of TED conferences, each event curates speakers on their own, but based on TED’s format and rules.”
Here is what she has to say about this step by step tutorial: “Mixed media mandala drawing on painted paper. I drew this doodle with paint pens. Gem stickers were added for sparkling 3-D effect.”
SUPPLIES:
Gold oil-based paint pen
Black oil-based paint pens
White Gel pen
Gem Stickers
Black craft paint
White craft paint
Filbert paint brush
Painted paper (regular white paper that has been stained with watered down acrylic paint and then dried completely.)
Stylus (dotting tool)
This is what Kristin has to say about this tutorial: “This tutorial will show you how to combine a dot mandala background on a canvas with a paper decoupage mermaid and crystals to create a shimmering piece of ready-to-hang art. Join me on my Facebook page for more tips and encouragement!”
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How to Paint Dot Mandalas #30 – The Mermaid by Kristin Uhrig
Tools used:
Piitsburgh 28 piece transfer punch set
Essence manicure stylus dotting tool
Generals Charcoal white pencil ruler
9×12 stretched canvas
Mod Podge Glossy
Mod Podge Sparkle
Genuine Swarovski flat back crystals
GS hypo cement
Paints:
Martha Stewart Indigo, Surf, Greek Tile, Pacific Iris, Mother of Pearl, Splash Pearl,
Jet Stream Pearl Americana Calypso Blue, Ocean Blue, Dioxazine Purple
CraftSmart Tide Pool
DecoArt Ice Blue Metalic, Purple Pearl
FolkArt Colorshift Purple Flash
Golden Fluid Titanium White
I have been on a journey to learn a new painting technique to relieve the stress brought on through a medical crisis with my husband’s cancer. . A camping trip resulted in a fine collection of smooth flat, round stones. They were the inspiration for learning to create dot mandala designs on rocks, and then late on canvas panels. I began making tutorials to share this adventure with others, so they could learn from my mistakes as well as my successes. My hopes that others will be encouraged to try something new, and creat beautiful lasting pieces of art that will bring them joy.
According to TEDxColoradoSprings: “Andrew Morrison and his wife, Gabriella, are the creators of “hOMe”, the 207 SF (+110 SF in lofts) modern tiny house on wheels. They live and work in hOMe full time, off grid, and debt free. With the extra time and money that they have they travel and enjoy time together as a family.”
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