Author: Amanda

Amanda Milke is a mixed media artist who draws her inspiration from her life and faith. She has developed a distinct style of abstract perspective that creates strong bold compositions using a variety of materials along with bright colors and rich textures. She has exhibited her work around Alberta and has sold her paintings to collectors around the world. She is the President for the Society of Fort Saskatchewan Artists and teaches Art classes out of her home art studio.

Midnight in the Garden

by Amanda, posted in 2016 Artwork, Abstract, acrylic, Art, Artist, canada, Christian Themes, Color Exploration, Fort Saskatchewan, Golden, Home Studio, In Progress creations, Inspiration, medium exploration, Paintings, photos

I’m still painting up a frenzy over here!
I started working on this piece which once done will be called ‘Midnight in the Garden’
It’s a square, 24″x 24″ gallery profiled mixed media painting.
I used a variety of mediums to build up layers and texture on the piece. I started with has a teal, napthol red and white wash followed by layers of glass beads, modeling paste and fiber paste.
Once that was dried I painted it in a variety of purples, magentas and greens with a touch of blues.
Once dried I started on the color pours and collect the run off at the bottom for a string layer on top. From here I’m planning on potentially adding some white paint sprays and black lava then transforming the finish into a matte layer.
Here are some of my in progress shots.

Well I should run, my baby turned 2 yesterday so today is her family party ❤
Have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Amanda

Medium Madness

by Amanda, posted in 2016 Artwork, Abstract, acrylic, Art, Art Classes, art discussions, art supplies, Fort Saskatchewan, Golden, Home Studio, In Progress creations, Paintings, photos

Hey look at that it hasn’t been months between posts…yet 😉

I spent the evening last night painting and playing in the studio with a bunch of new goodies.
I recently went on a mini medium shopping spree to stock up the studio on some awesome Golden & Liquitex paints and mediums; partly for the Art classes I’m teaching and partly because it gave me a reason to bring in some super high quality goodies.

I picked up more Golden Brand Fluid and High Flow paints which I have enjoyed working with in the last year. I also grabbed some acrylic medium staples like crackle paste, fiber paste, glass beads, a variety of gels and TONS more.

Here are a few pieces I’m currently working on and some in progress shots

Well back to it, if you’d like to know some of the mediums used, feel free to comment.
Cheers,
Amanda

New Year, New Art, New Opportunities

by Amanda, posted in 2016 Artwork, Abstract, acrylic, Art, Art Classes, art discussions, Art Jewelry, art supplies, Enamel Abstracts, Fort Saskatchewan, Home Studio, Jewelry Classes, Pebeo paint

Well I’m back after a longer than intended break from blogging which honestly is pretty much how all my posts start it seems *sigh* oh well, I suck at maintaining a blog we all know it and the sooner we accept it we can get on with talking about Art…

We good?
Great!

So I’ve started off the year pretty busy actually, we’re not even a full month in and I’ve already
taught two Art & Jewelry related classes through the city’s leisure guide program.
The first was “Silverware Jewelry” and the second which is a 3 session course is “Intro to Acrylic Abstract Art”, the first class was last night and we played around with types of acrylic paint and acrylic mediums.

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I’ve also been nominated for the Women in Arts award as part of a local International Women’s Day Awards Gala which funnily enough I was approached last year by the committee to create their Jewelry Trophy Awards for the Awards Gala. So I’m finishing up some hand stamped sterling silver charm bracelets with swarovski crystals.

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And on top of all that, I’ve also been busy working on hand stamped Jewelry orders and painting and experimenting with fluid paints and my enamels.

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I picked up one of these awesome panels over the weekend and had been dying to test it out but didn’t have time until today so ce I’ve been prepping things for my Art class.

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So I just finished a piece this morning. Here are the in progress pics, I’m just waiting for it to dry now 🙂

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Well that’s me, what have you all been up to 😉

Cheers,
Amanda

Tis the season for giving <3

by Amanda, posted in Uncategorized

Another project I currently have on the go is a special Christmas Tree ornament to help raise fund for the Fort Saskatchewan Families First Society.

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They are a wonderful organisation that helps support hundreds of families in the city.
Here’s a little bit about them

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If you’d like to learn more about the support and programs they offer you can visit them online at http://www.familiesfirstsociety.ca/
They have just recently moved to a larger facility and have been raising funds to get the building ready and to host programs to further support the community. If you’d like to donate you can do so by going online here:

Donate


Or you can help support by purchasing one of these Ornaments
I’m donating 50% of all the proceeds to support this wonderful cause. I’m doing a limited edition 100 Stamping of this ornament. I would LOVE to sell out of these and reach my goal of donating $1000 to help cover some of their costs.

If you’d like to purchase one of these Ornaments please message me on my Facebook business page. You can find me at https://m.facebook.com/AMilkeCustomArtJewelry/ for out of town orders there’s a flat $4 shipping fee to mail out your order on these.

Thanks! & Have a Great Day 🙂
Amanda