The idea was to emulate an artist you love. Mine is Hundertwasser – an amazing and crazy person! His colours are awesome. This page was created with markers, paint, and inktense blocks.
Category Archives: Journal 52 2016
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!
Journal 52 – Wk9 – That thing that you love about Art Journaling
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!
Journal 52 – Week 8 – Are you ruled by Heart or Head?
Back from Holiday and now have all my lovely supplies to play with again! Didn’t manage to get this week 8 done while I was away so this is just a quick page to catch up.
Lots of dylusions paints and stenciling. Fun and quick!
Journal 52 Week 7 – Love Yourself
And then this page was born…..this was a revelation. Fed up with being restricted to watercolour I began exploring other ways to make a background. I found that if I scribbled with the gelly roll pens I could then blend them on the page with a babywipe! Wow! Great fun and endless possiblilities of colour.
Still keen to add some watercolur I dripped watercolour puddles on the glass table here in the villa (!), spritzed it a bit with water and dropped the page onto it swirling it about a bit to add a sort of smeary effect. Then I added some stenciling with black archival ink and brown distress ink. Plus some black lines with the black ink. The image was cut from a health magazine and the words seemed to fit just fine. All in all quite a fun morning when it was way too windy to sit outside!
Journal 52 – Week 5 – Monochromatic
The choice this week was Psychodelic or Monochromatic. Tempting though it was I chose the latter. Maybe I will do the psychodelic one later!
Dylusions paint – black and white with stencilling. Love how the paints blend together, not too much can go wrong with these!
Journal 52 – Week 4 – The Moon
This was going to be a very different page until these two characters insisted on getting in on the act!
This page has soooo many different sufaces, dylusions inks, perlescent paint, acrylic paint just to name a few! Plus moulding paste for the moon.
Owl and pussycat drawn in pen and coloured with distress inks, boat is painted with dylusions acrylic.
A Fun page to do!!
Journal 52 Week 3 – My Favourite Song!
Has to be Pump up the Jam. Brilliant banging techno sound. Such a shame I was too late for this era, I would have loved the whole Club scene. I can still be found jumping round the kitchen to these sounds though!
Background is dylusions ink sprays in fuschia and london blue. Water drops added to the whole clubby scene – I hope! Images from the internet.
Journal 52 Wk 2
Journal 52 Week2. Prompt: What are you going to do more of this year?
As it says on the page, I am going to learn to use all the stuff I already have! I’ve never had much success with dylusions paints so this was a big learning curve. Also the little printing blocks were a new thing to me and getting them to print in the right place was a bit of a mission but all in all this was fun!
Dylusions paints (3 greens + white), stencilling with the same colours, journaling with a fude pen.