Fantasy Art Journal Page

I'm hosting an art journal page swap this year at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group.  I had to make a replacement page for one of the participants.  Her theme is fantasy.  For the first photo, I sketched a face in the Jane Davenport style - sort of!  I didn't intend to have the pink drips under the eyes, but art happens!  I was using a Posca paint pen to put dots around the eyes and ended up with a blob instead.  I pulled the blob down and made the same paint blob on the other eye.  I rather like it!  The bottom photo uses Dylsuions stamps.  I tend to overdo on the backgrounds, so I painted gesso in the middle of the page and overstamped with a text stamp.  This way my "mermaid" stands out from the background a little.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

1954 Dreams Art Journal Spread

I recently scanned in some photos from my Mom's wedding album.  Here's an art journal spread using some of the photos.  I used different stencils, paints, gesso,  and white tulle glued down in the background.  The photo of my Mom was printed on cotton fabric.  I had fun making this!  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Strong Women Art Journal Spread

Another journal page!  On the left side of the page - the tag - I swiped some gesso on it and it let dry.  Then I added watercolors.  I stamped the Dylusions image, the Dina Wakely words and used another stamp to add some texture.  I made the background using a vintage book page and swiped different acrylic paints across it.  I used a Crafter's Workshop template and modeling paste.  I didn't like it, so I white washed it with gesso.  I painted the area under the grid fabric black and splattered some black paint.  I added the grid fabric and the tag.  The right side had the same background and I "fixed" it the same way.  I stamped the Dina stamps on cardstock, cut them out and applied watercolors in the background.  Thanks for stopping by!

Art Journal Page

Here's the first spread in a new art journal.  I believe that there are no mistakes in art, only opportunities.  This spread is certainly very different than how it started out!  I started out gluing down vintage ephemera and didn't like how things looked, so I pulled a bunch of it off and left some.  I used Shiva paint sticks next.  The ephemera that was left added texture under the paint sticks.  To lighten up the pages, I randomly applied white gesso and overstamped with a letter stamp.  After that, everything went swimmingly!  That butterfly is one of the new Dina Wakely stamps.  I colored it with various Sakura pens.  Thanks for stopping by!