I have moved!

I have moved my website and blog to ChelseaRoseArts.com

You can also find me posting regularly at the following:

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If you have any questions or request please contact me here. 

Thank you so much for your interest and support.

May your tea cup be forever warm,
your well of inspiration run deep,
and may the dreams you hold dearest be those which come true.

Love,
-Chelsea Rose

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Happy New Year!

Its 2016 already! WOW. Happy New Year!

Here are some current and future art projects I am excited about:

I created a Patreon Page! Now admierers of my art have a new way to support me as I create, and they get exclusive perks too like monthly art raffles, coloring pages, art prints and more. So be sure to visit and consider becoming my patron. 

I just surpassed 1000 followers on my youtube channel! I have over 60 videos uploaded and many more on the way. If you are not subscribed be sure to check out my channel here.

I have been offering monthly limited edition hand tea stained prints for just $10. The print above was last month's print. I am a day or two away from releasing January's print and I can hardly wait. Be sure to keep an eye on my FB and IG pages for more updates on when the print will be released into my etsy shop for collection. 

After receiving so many requests that I create coloring pages out of my art, I have obliged! I am releasing one original coloring page available as a digital download per month via my Patreon page. You can download my very first coloring page for FREE here. Otherwise, to have access to my monthly coloring pages all you have to do is become a Patreon for either $4 or $12 per month. The ultimate goal is to eventually build up enough of these pages to self publish my very own coloring book, and the support garnered via Patreon will help with the production costs so that the books can be affordable for all.

I am working with an all female skateboarding crew known as The Santa Cruz Lady Lurker's to produce the art that will be printed on their official skateboard deck.

I am continuing to work with local community outreach organization Alberta Art Works to create some community funded public art. The above is a very rough concept mock up for a mural I am working with them to create on the side of a local yoga studio. There have also been talks of being involved in two different group murals…so more on all this exciting mural business coming soon! 

So that is a taste of what already is, and what shall be in this new year. 

Here is a quick look back on 2015:

 Lots of awesomeness happened in 2015 and here are several highlights in no particular order:

 I attended my first comic-con, I made improvements in my spray painting techniques, treated myself to a tattoo, painted a big commissioned interior mural, painted two public bench murals, discovered my love for painting tea, participated in several wonderful group art art shows around town, began producing my own coloring pages, completed over 31 new illustrations for the Drawlloween challenge. 

2015 was full of the above mentioned and more including moments of loss, moments of oopsies, moments of WTF , but adversity makes us stronger. Its a delicate balance!

I am excited to see what opportunities, challenges and new understandings await us all in 2016. 

Much love always and thanks so much for the support!

-Chelsea Rose  

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Painting with tea

I am elated to have found a way to combine two things I absolutely love: painting and tea.

For years I have heard of people using various teas to stain paper and had always meant to try working with it as an art medium…but I never quite got around to it until recently when I was inking a sketch and stupidly rested my tea mug on my drawing, thus leaving a tea ring stain. Instead of crying about it I got super inspired and happily finished the drawing off by painting/staining it with my tea.
Here was the result:

"Ghostly love"

original tea painted pen and ink drawing

(Sold)

I showed the result off and people seemed just as excited about my tea painting as I was…so I started experimenting some more:

This time I set up with two different kinds of tea: Rooibos Chai and Hibiscus. I excepted the Rooibos chai to produce a nice warm sepia tone and the Hibsicus to stain a light magenta. I was right about the Rooibos's stain but was super surprised that the Hibiscus actually dried to a blueish/purple. 

See the result here:

"Merlady"

Original tea painted pen and ink drawing

(Available for $60.00 here.)

By this second tea painting I was 100% addicted and so I just kinda went nuts with it, doing more tea painting experiments, trying new teas, adding salt, trying new paper…and its been such a fun journey.

Here I started with a pencil sketch that I then inked.

After the sketch was inked I added some washes with Rooibos Chai and Hibiscus tea

Once the tea was dry I went back in and thickened up my ink lines

"Lounging SpEYEn creature lady"

Original tea painting on pen and ink drawing

(sold)

This is a screen shot from a Live periscope broadcast I did as I painted with tea for the first time on watercolor paper( I had been painting with tea on sketch paper with the first few.)

A peek at my messy painting desk, full of tea cups!

"Third Eye Creature Lady"

Tea painted pen and ink drawing on watercolor paper

(Available for $60.00 here.)

Because I had been getting such a great response from people in regards to my tea painting I decided to run a limited edition print sale, in which I would hand paint each print with tea! 

I chose to work with my Wednesday Adams original pen and ink sketch, which was a very fitting choice for a print release in October! 

I decided the edition with be limited to 10 prints, each hand painted with tea.

After I was painting each print, I signed and numbered them. 

They sold out in a few short days, thus I feel very encouraged to begin doing limited editions like this for each month. So, stay tuned as I will be choosing my print for Novemeber soon! 

In conclusion, I am absolutely obsessed with tea painting and can't wait to share my adventures with it as an art medium. More updates soon! Keep a look out on my etsy shop, as I am posting my newly finished tea paintings for sale and they are going quick.

Much love!

-Chelsea Rose 

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