These flowers have been all sorts of colours! I just couldn’t seem to get it right but it’s done. Another Mimi Bondi inspired tutorial.
Category Archives: Art Journaling
Trial and Error!
An experiment in making a background and then drawaing on shapes and blocking out the background with a glaze mixed with white acrylic. I think maybe I blocked out the background just a little too much but it was fun to do!
Mimi Bond inspired!
I love the Mimi’s style! Had to have a go after watching her tutorial. At the end I thought my version was a little too twee for me so I sort of grundged it up a bit – and then I was happy! Thankyou Mimi!
Frinton Beach
Think I have caught up with my posts now, did this one today after a lovely walk along the beach. It all started off really calmly with lines of sea and sand and sky and then I hated it so got busy with the gesso! Plus acrylic paints, all applied with fingers and then some doodling. Also doodling using my lovely new Pentel brush pen! Hopefully it’s slightly recognisable as Frinton beach!
Triffids?
This page was inspired by a poster in Holland and Barratts window. Of course it isn’t anything like the poster, probably quite fortunate! I think this was acrylic paint background, well it was last week! Lots of stenciling and doodling. Acrylic flowers with journaling around them. Love the colours and the chaos!
Fun!
Really getting into it now! Dylusions sprays, stencils, stamps, doodling, you name it it’s here! Fun!
Getting There!
And then things began to get a bit more free and I began to have fun!
I think the background was acrylic paints, the flowers certainly are, and all the stenciling. A fun page to do!
Not all successes!
Just trying to catch up, this was one of those pieces where you had to do about 10 steps in the order they were written – I don’t like it!!
Journal 52 – Wk11 – An Imaginary Creature
This was my first attempt using Bombay Inks. The background was previously gessoed and has a nice texture to it. Two or three shades of acrylic paint were used in the background, blended with a babywipe. The ink was dropped onto the page and blown with a straw. I admit I had to help some of it into the right direction! After drying I added details with a black sharpie pen, trying to use the ink patterns to create bits of body and limbs. Fish and some underwater creatures were stenciled on and some doodling added. I quite like the amazing undersea Inkblot Creature!
Journal 52 – Wk10 – Emerge
Another fun page to do! How do you portray emerge? I found the image of the girl and something prompted me to think of her emerging from a cocoon. Background was once again dylusions sprays and stencils and stamps but most of it is obviously covered up! The cocoon looks more like an egg I think and the arms were from a differnt body so may look just a little odd, oh, and I made the words much too big and the wrong sort of font. Apart from that I quite like it!
