I’m running a bit behind, I ran into a period where my muse sort of took a vacation without me. So the past week I’ve been on a bit of a roll. I hope it last.
Archive for the ‘Journal Pages’ Category
I was trying to combine ideas from two different journal pages I had seen, It didn’t quite work out the way I thought it would. and I was left to much empty space, so I dug out my trusty Dr. Ph Martins bombay inks and added some splats, after that I was rather happy with the end results, and I’ll try the ideas again with another journal page.
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Last page in my Break The Rules Journal, I’m working out of order so I actually one more page to finish before, I have completed another journal, I’m just a bit excited about that. There is real since of accomplishment when you know you’ve reached the end of one journal and get to start a new one 🙂
I used my brick stencil with lightweight spackle I mixed the spackle with some paints to get the brick look. After that was dry I used some of my new Dyan Reaveley paints and smeared it around trying to get a graffiti look, I am trying to figure out how to make words on the brick to look like graffiti. I have an identical canvas to this page, that I am going to hold off on until I’m more ready.
…I could rule the world
Most who know me, know that I much prefer my tea to coffee, unless of course that coffee is a Venti Mocha Caramel Latte from Starbucks, then all bets are off 🙂
I have found a new to me artist on YouTube Vicky Papaioannou. I really enjoy watching her videos, her journal page ‘Take Life One Cup At A Time’ is what inspired this journal page. If you have the time take it and watch a few of her journal videos she is very inspiring.
I have started to use up some of my stash in my journals this year, with this one I dug out some of my extremely large pile of scrapbook paper to create this background and make my tea cups.
I used book paper and my big brush markers to create the sloshed tea, and I have to say that I am most proud of how that turned out, I was a tad skeptical when this idea popped into my head at first but after I started cutting the paper and adding it to the cups, I really like how it turned out – After I took these pictures I decided to take my glossy accent and cover all the tea in the cups. I will take a picture when it is dried *fingers crossed* it turns out like I hope it will.
The tea tags with quotes on them are from one of my favorite teas Yogi. I save all the tags and have finally gotten to use some of them in my art.
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I’m going through a flowers phase at the moment, so here are some more.
In keeping with my goal to try and do some form of art everyday, I worked on this last night I just wanted to play with paint, it was as simple as that… I’m pretty sure the general basis of it is a lesson in one of Dina Wakley’s book, I’m sure I seen it on the internet crack site (aka Pinterest)
The background: gessoed first, then I used one of my catalyst brushes (that I got at Hobby Lobby for .95 cents – really glad I talked hubby into going to HL that day) to spread the blue, I added a bit more gesso on top of the blue to tone it down just a bit after that I traced the flowers out with a pencil but didn’t like how that looked so I covered the marks up with paint and just had fun from there. all in all I think I spent about an hour on this page, one of the quickest journal pages I’ve ever done and it was kind of liberating to just throw paint on the page and have fun.
I started the background for this journal page months ago, and had been using it for left over paint from other projects until I finally had something that sparked my muse… The background just seemed perfect for Tinker Bell so I dug out my napkins started tearing and gluing.
to make Tink a bit darker I used two napkins by gluing one down and then laying a second over the top. her wings I used the second layer of the napkin three layers there, still the wings weren’t dark enough I wanted them to look almost see through like but they blended to well into the background so I dug out my pan pastel Titanium White with a hint of Payne Grey. I like how they are you can see them but they don’t stand out, perfect fairly!
a close up of the flowers, the others are from a set of Tinker Bell stickers I had purchased years back for something or other, figured this was a good way to use them.
close up of the background and the texture I really love it.
Since I know someone is going to ask, *blushes* the base of the background was the wrappers from poise pads, I just knew they would make an awesome textured background… I look at everything and ask ‘how can I use that in my art?’ It may have waited months and had loads of paint smooshed on it wiped away and more smooshed on but in the end I had the perfect background.
Have a great weekend fellow artists!!
This week was a tough one for me, I often struggle with collage. It is hard for me to just put things on a page with no particular rhyme or reason. For the most part I’m actually pretty happy with how this turned out and since Donna did hers without using Teal, I figured that I should do mine without using any purple.
I used scraps of things that were on my desk and some of my 7 Gypsies tissue paper I have been hoarding like a greedy little kid with candy. the definitions are from a pack of Heidi Swapp stickers I think I bought sometime last year.
HAPPY CREATING
Prima Bloom collection Jamie Dougherty stencil ‘Gardenia’
An Altered Addiction 