I love the different reactions you get when you mix media together. In this piece the background was spray painted with dylusions inks, stencils were added with more paint. Some paint was removed through other stencils. Stamps were added in different colours. The flowers were freehand painted on with a gorgeous fluorescent pink acrylic but they took up some of the dylusions colour from beneath, giving them all differing effects. I love when this happens, you just never know what you will get! Doodles were added and then bits were outlined with a uniball pen. I really like this piece!
Category Archives: Art Journaling
Circles!
I love to watch Nathalie Keur videos on Youtube and this was one of them. Although I had a few issues with restricted supplies still (home next week – yippee!).
I had to create my texture from kitchen roll glued down with a prittstick! It works though, def use that one again. The colours look more muted here than they actually are, they are made by scribbling over the stencils with a gellyroll pen and then rubbing through with a babywipe. No stabilo pencil here so I had to use black watercolor paint. And only gesso for a white, but i do have a white pen with me so could add the white dots and touch up the circles a bit. When it was all done I just didn’t think it look blurred enough around the circles so I started adding the whispy bits, not sure that it adds anything but hey ho, once you’ve started you have to finish!
Anyway, I love circles so I’m happy with it! Thanks Nathalie!
What can I say….
What indeed can I say about this? Not a lot really except that it was definitely a mistake. It was going to the page for this weeks Journal 52 but then I realised that it was in my Journal whereas I do the J52 pages on loose sheets. But I carried on anyway, now that I’d started. Just pen and watercolour and best forgotten!
Watercolours…….
Not such a sunny day here yet so decided to play with watercolours a bit. Again this was a Youtube video from Einat Kessler some time ago. Mine isn’t too much like how she did it because I had to improvise a lot with supplies, but I really enjoyed doing it! A very gentle page compared with some I’ve done!
Perhaps I should add what was used………Watercolour paints, distress ink through a stencil and stamped on. Lots of gesso. Some bits of magazine pages, more gesso, more paint. A stamped butterfly and paint splatters, plus the quote which is one of my favourites.
Einat Kessler Influences!
I’ve been following Einat on Youtube for ages now and doing the odd page influenced by her.
This one I started while at home and brought on holiday to finish:
I brought gellirol pens with me so they seemed like the ideal thing to finish the details in the hair. When it came to adding gel medium and micro beads this just wasn’t going to happen! So, out into the garden and I collected some sand and glued it on with a pritstick. Not quite there but it gives it a bit of texture in places!
Thanks Einat, I loved doing this and am now looking forward to starting my Art Journaling 101 class with you when I get home, also the Saturday Mixtravaganza VIP room in April!
On Vacation………….
Here I am still in sometimes not so sunny Fuertaventura! Well, I had this page that has been hanging about for a while and I had no idea how to finish it. It started as just somewhere to rub my sponges on to finish up the dylusions paints. All very pink in the end and not very inspiring.
I have been lurking in the Mixed Media Morsels group on Facebook and when I get home I will be trying all the techniques. their first one was using scrunched up sarin wrap over paint so I thought I’d give that a go on this page.
So, I covered the page with blue watercolor paint, only have my watercolors here, added the sarin wrap and laid it outside to dry (very windy here!!). When the wrap came off I quite liked the effect. It had muted the pink quite nicely and gave the whole thing the look of a garden.
Then I went mad with the few stamps I have with me! Probably a bit over the top but at least I like the finished page now!
Journal 52 Week 6 – Above my head
Whoah! Always wanted to do this one and it so fitted!
Watercolours, pen and a bit of watercolour stenciling around the edge to finish:
Autumn leaves
Just made these leaves courtesy of Kellie Colgrove on Youtube, here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4BrmhF_D8&feature=youtu.be
For cutting the leaves I used a Tim Holtz die and also one of his stamps to stamp the details but you could hand cut leaves easily enough.
They’re made with embossing powder and alcohol inks, her video is excellent for doing this.
I made them as I am trying to make her 28 page mini art journal which I believe she posted some time last year. It’s an excellent eay of learning new techniques. This will be for page 4.
While the inks were out I also made this sheet of deli paper for later use!
Out of this world?
They say that when you write a book the characters can take over the story – that’s what happened with this page!
The musical notes napkin I tried to collage down didn’t want to stay put and in the end I had so much glue that bits came off and some bits sort of collected together, lots of texture though!
Painted with black, pink and white dylusions paints, applied with a babywipe. As a last minute thought I added some silver treasure gold (?) for more rays effects.
Turned out to be quite a fun page to make even if it did go it’s own way!
New Journal Cover!
New journal – my Scanner journal. Having ascertained that I am a ‘Scanner’ – ie: someone who constantly scans the horizon for new projects etc and cannot settle to one occupation (these people are called Divers) and that it’s perfectly OK to be a Scanner, I am completely happy now! So, the new Journal is for recording all the crazy things I suddenly want to do. Obviously I had to decorate the cover:
But suddenly I no longer want to be a turquoise and blue person and have the desire to be pink and purple! So………..gesso over!
and begin again…………
Much happier now, I can live with this! Hmmm, maybe a little tweak here and there……….