Faces Art Journal - Face 8

I watched a couple of Dina Wakely videos at You Tube today.  Here's the result.  It doesn't look like her art at all!  I'm going to practice on this kind of face and see what I can do with it.  I do like the eyes and the way nose came out.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

More Calendar Covers

Here a couple more of the covers I've made for the handmade calendar swap I'm hosting at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group.  I used Stencil Girl and Dina Wakely stencils and Dina Wakely stamps.

Just Me art journal spread

I received my shipment of stencils from the Stencil Girl Stencil Club.  I used all 3 in this art journal spread.  The background colors were made using oil pastels.  I sealed the oil pastels with workable fixative and then started stenciling with acrylic paints. The circles were stamped with green Archival Ink using new Ellen Hutson stamps.  I used a The Crafter's Workshop woman mask with black acrylic paint.  I outlined the woman image and made some white dots in the black dots using a Stamper's Big Brush Pen.  I used a Dina Wakely stencil and modeling paste  to add the white text. Thanks for coming by my blog!

Transform art journal page

 

I love it when I sit down to do a new journal page and everything just flows!  I am happiest with my art when it is effortless, like this journal spread was for me.  I started by painting the edges gold.  My friend, Lin, sent me some handmade papers that had some gold in them.  I used 2 different hand made papers in the background.  I used an art comb to apply gesso next.  I tore up a vintage fruit receipt (Collage Stuff) and glued it down next.  Then a couple of vocabulary cards (Collage Stuff).  I used a scroll stamp and stamped randomly.  That finished off the background.  I applied black paint around the woman mask from The Crafter's Workshop.  Then on the left-hand side of the page at the edge I applied black paint with a Dylusions stencil and I didn't like it, so I covered the whole thing up with black paint like a wide border.  I used a Dina Wakely stencil (Collage Stuff) and modeling paste to apply the word "transform".  The last stencil I used was from Stencil Girl to kind of fill in a little bit.  Lastly I cut out a little heart from some of the papers Lin sent me, colored it red/pink with some paint and glued this down. I used a white Stamper's Big Brush pen for the white accents. I like using real vintage ephemera in my art when I can.  I find it gives my art authenticity.  At least, I think so!   I also like that the handmade papers added some more texture even though they are painted over. Thanks for coming by my blog!  Comments are always welcome!

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!

My Art Journal

Here are two spreads in my art journal.  I'll be sending it off to Lin once I'm sure it's dry.  I have always loved the quirky Dylusions images and sayings.  I'm also in love with the Dina Wakely Scribbly Bird stamps.  I used several stencils on each spread.  On the birds pages, I tried out some Wendy Vecchi gold embossing paste.  I thought it might be shinier, but I like it.  Thanks for stopping by!

Lin's Art Journal

My friend, Lin (click here for Lin's Etsy store) and I are participating in a little art journal round robin - just the two of us.  Here are the first two pages that I've finished in Lin's journal.

The top spread, the birds, was a lesson in how there are no mistakes in art, only opportunities.  I had a perfectly fine background created and messed it up adding more stuff.  I can save just about anything!  I ended up painting over the top of it and trying it again.  I used Dylusions spray inks and rubber stamps.  I used 2 of The Carfter's Workshop templates.  I added texture with modeling paste.  I love the Dina Wakeley "Scribbly Birds" stamps.  I colored the birds and houses with the new Dina Wakely heavy body acrylic paints.  In both spreads, I used a page or part of a page from a vintage children's spelling textbook. 

The second spread uses mostly Victorian scraps available at Collage Stuff.  I love the timeless beauty of these images.  I used lace, a doily, buttons, two items from the Tim Holtz Thrift Shop ephemera pack, Petaloo flowers and lots of butterflies!  I fins some sort of stencil to be a must and used one of The Crafter's Workshop templates - available at Collage Stuff.  For this spread, I also used a paper that I created with my gelli plate.  I toned it down a little with white gesso.

I encourage everyone to art journal.  It's art that you create for yourself.  I love the feeling of artistic freedom that I get from just playing and trying different things.

Thanks for stopping by!