Monthly Archives: February 2015

Art Journal Thursday #19

Good morning! I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday Video #19 has been uploaded out on YouTube! 🙂

The materials I used this week are:

  • White Gesso
  • Dina Wakley Mixed Media Acrylic Paints: Lime, Turquoise, Sky, Magenta, Lapis, White
  • Baby wipes
  • Dina Wakley Media Stencil: Essentials
  • Ceramcoat Acrylic Craft Paints: Green, OJ
  • Folk Art Acrylic Paint: Medium Yellow
  • Finalize bottle filled with white acrylic paint
  • Uhu Glue Stick
  • Uniball Signo Broad White Pen
  • Black Pilot Permaball Pen
  • Ranger Archival Ink Pad

DSC06743This weeks video is rather short and sweet. That is mainly because I lost part of my video footage in the beginning…oops, sorry about that! In case you missed how I got this page started out, I coated my spread with white gesso by using a palette knife to scrape white gesso all over my spread and letting that dry completely. I then used three of Dina Wakley Media Paints to add color to my page, and before those colors dried, I used a stencil and baby wipe to pull some of the color up through the stencil. As I added another color, I made sure to overlap some of the previously stenciled areas to incorporate all of the colors together, and then continued with my stencil technique. I kept doing this until my spread was color!

DSC06745That is why my video today begins!

DSC06749I really like the way this spread turned out, at one point I wasn’t exactly sure where I was going with it! 🙂 But as always, it usually seems to turn out exactly as it is supposed to, and I really love it! 🙂

DSC06751

 

DSC06754

 

DSC06756

What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Also, if you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life!

1 - Signature

If you want to have a different life, live differently!

Art Journal Thursday #18!

I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday Video #18 has been posted out on YouTube!

This week, the supplies I used were:

  • Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paints: Tangerine, Lime, Magenta, Sky, Turquoise, Lemon, Lapis, and Blackberry Violet
  • the circular Dina Wakley Media Mask from her Graphic Shapes set
  • Baby wipes
  • Fineline bottle filled with black acrylic paint

DSC06728This past weekend, I was very excited to have gotten the opportunity to take 5 classes taught by the lovely Dina Wakley, over a three-day period!! I learned sooooooo many new skills and techniques, and I am just raring to start incorporating them all, but for today I thought I would start by showing you all how to do a very simple technique that not only had I not seen before, it was one of my favorites!

DSC06733You choose a mask or a stencil, something with not too small of holes, as well as not too large of holes either!

DSC06727Spread a thick layer of acrylic paint to cover a surface roughly the size of you mask/stencil.

Lay your mask/stencil over the thick coat of paint, and rub all excess paint off with a baby wipe. (Many baby wipes, actually!) While you are doing this, you will transfer color onto your spread from the baby wipe – that is alright, just make sure to overlap your background colors to make it look intentional and to incorporate all of your stencil shapes together.

DSC06741Just keep repeating this process until you have as many stencil/mask designs that you want! Make sure you do not clean your mask/stencil as you change from color to color. Part of the coolness of this effect is the color transfer that will happen when you go from color to color!

DSC06734I hope you get a chance to give this technique a try!!! I KNOW I will do this one MANY times over!!! 😉

DSC06738What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Also, if you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life!

1 - Signature

If you want a different life, live differently!

 

Art Journal Thursday #17!

Good afternoon!

I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday #17 video is up on YouTube!! 🙂

The materials I used this week were:

  • Folk Art Acrylic Craft Paint: Medium Yellow
  • DecoArt Crafter Acrylic Craft Paints: Leaf Green, Tuscan Red, Tropical Blue
  • Apple Barrel Acrylic Craft Paint: White
  • Petroleum jelly
  • Paper Towels
  • Card Stock (recycled business cards)
  • Hero Arts Decorate It Letter Stamps
  • Ranger’s Black Archival Ink Pad
  • Aleene’s Quick Grab Tacky Glue
  • Black China Marker

DSC06635

This week I had stumbled upon another YouTube video showing how to do this petroleum jelly resist, which ends up looking like peeled paint, and I just knew that I had to try this in my art journal this week! 🙂

DSC06639One of my favorite artists is Rodney White, and I have 4 of his prints hanging in my house, 3 of those are in my living room! His artwork features a peeled paint effect, and I was determined to figure out how to do this, so I could use it in some of my artwork! 🙂

DSC06653I found a few YouTube tutorials on how to do this, and was determined to give this a try! 😉

DSC06648This technique turned out to be very easy, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind! You will need a lot of clean paper towels, and I mean A LOT!!! 😉 This will also make a bit of mess on your art table, with all of the little peeled paint bits – kind of reminds me of eraser shavings, but other than that…easy peasy!!! 😉

DSC06645This is my new FAVORITE spread in my art journal!!! I ADORE all of the colors, and the final peeled paint effect is SCRUM-DIDDLY-UPMTIOUS!!!! After adding the brown color wash, and wiping it off, all of the layers had so much depth to them, that I could seriously see this being a very cool background on a piece of wall art!!!

DSC06641What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Also, if you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life!

1 - Signature

If you want a different life, live differently!