Good morning!
I am happy to announce that my weekly Art Journal video #4 has been posted to YouTube for your perusal!
I have a bunch of pictures to show you, but first the supplies I used this week are:
- Art Advantage Acrylic Paints: Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, Cerulean Blue, Permanent Green Light
- Lumiere Acrylic Paint Pearlescent Magenta (573)
- Folk Art Acrylic Paint Neon Pink (2850)
- Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint White (20403)
- Liquitex Acrylic Ink Vivid Lime Green
- Ranger Stickles: Purple (SGG20615), True Blue (SGG29052), Waterfall (SGG20639)
- Hero Arts Wood Mounted Stamp: Painted Circle (E5784), Old French Writing (H2365)
- Inkadinkado Wood Mounted Stamp: K-Paper Artsy Tre’port Postal
- Cosmo Cricket Wood Mounted Stamp: Cluster Border (PS0647)
- Ranger’s Black Archival Ink Pad
- Golden’s Gel Medium
- Liquitex White Gesso
- Black Stabilo Pencil
- Water Brush
- 1-1/2 inch brush
- Pink tissue paper (I had gotten in a birthday present gift)
- Silver Butterfly wall decal – I am not sure the brand, but I found it in a set on clearance at Wallmart for $1
- Aleen’s Tacky Glue
I had a lot of fun doing this spread this week! Unlike most weeks, where I am just winging it, this week I had a vague idea about what I wanted to do, but had really no idea what my thought was going to be, or how to pull it all together. It wasn’t until I was finally spending time arting in quiet, while I was actually doing these art journal pages, that it finally seemed to come together!
Did you notice how much gesso I used? ACK!!! I was very heavy handed, which means it really took forever to get that layer to dry! Matter of fact, it never did completely dry until the next day!! Too much gesso + an immediate layer of gel medium + another layer of thick body acrylic paint = mamma-has-no-time-for-this-drying-craziness-so-I-had-best-be-careful-not-to-mess-this-up!!! 😉
I don’t really have any hard and fast rules for art journaling, or for mixed media in general, except for one, always ALWAYS let your layers dry thoroughly!! Unless you want them to blend together, smear, run, slide off, or flake off, than that is a different story, but I was having a heck of a time sticking to this rule for this spread! What can I say, patience is NOT one of my virtues! 🙂
As you may have probably noticed – I have a heck of a time getting drips to look right! I think I know how to do it, but when I am in full on “art mode”, the proper way to do this seems to slip my mind, and I find myself struggling to get the look right! Not to worry, though, this is all a learning process for me, and I know I will continue to get better! That is the point, right??? 🙂
I also have been wanting to find a really good quality neon fluorescent paint set! I did purchase a cheapie set this past week, but it was not a high quality brand, so there isn’t much pigment in the paint, which means I have to use A LOT of it to get the rich pop of color I am wanting, so I will keep looking! If I find a really good one I will let you know! ( I should’ve known – you get what you pay for!)
So, when I was stamping, to get more texture, I stamped right into a big glob of wet green thick body acrylic paint. This happens, and it is fine, and can add a lot more texture because it causes peaks and valleys in your acrylic paint if you let it dry that way, but make sure you stop what you are doing and clean your stamp thoroughly, right away! II have an old toothbrush on standby for just such occasions.) If you leave the acrylic to dry on your stamp, it will ruin your stamp, because it changes the shape of the stamps ridges. NOT what you want! I’m just saying’! 🙂
Anyway, although this may not be my favorite layout – I am not sure how I am digging this silver butterfly decal – it was a learning process, which is the point, as well as stopping just to listen to what your soul is saying to you, so in that way I LOVE this spread!!
Now for your input, do you have any questions, or comments for me? Is there any kind of mediums or techniques you would like me to use in future videos? Just let me know in the comment section of either my blog, here, or at my YouTube channel, and I will try and get a timely response to you! 🙂
Until next time!
Here is to a FABULOUS day!! 🙂
