More Journal Pages 2

Hi Everyone,
I have two more journal pages to share with you, both very differnt in style.
On my journey around the world-wide web for inspiration I have seen so many different styles of art that I love.  This journal/sketchbook is really one of experimentation of different styles in the hope of eventually arriving of a style that is recognizable as my own work.

My first page was inspired by the work of Teesha Moore. Her work is so detailed and colourful compared to my feeble attempt. But it is my first attemp. She has such a vivid imagination of which I can only dream.

Materials used for this page include: altered magazine cut outs, acrylic paint, washie tape, handmade stamps and a black Sharpie pen.

For the next page I wanted to create a black and white background with a splash of red.

Materials used : Pan pastels,acrylic paint, charcoal pencil, red and black ink, gel medium transfer and a butterfly rubber stamp.

I want to share a tip with you regarding gel medium transfers. There are lots of tutorials on this subject and this tip may already be known and written about already but I came across it by accident. When I first tried this method I painted the ink- jet printed image with gel medium then applied it to the page (or fabric), burnished it and removed it, rubbing any remaining paper off with my fingers. Some people leave it on for a length of time before removing it, but I found that it was more difficult to remove the paper.

What I have found much easier is to paint the surface you are transferring the image onto first with gel medium, dry it then coat the image you are transferring with gel medium and apply to the surface, burnish, and remove. Leave to dry and then
rub any excess paper off with your finger.

This is what the images looked like on the above page before they where knocked back with layers of paint and pastel.

This was using a laser printed copy but I have also had success in ink-jet copies.

Bye for now x

Revised Journal Pages

Hi Everyone,
I was looking at a coupleof my journal pages and I wasn't happy with them at all. So I thought I would do some more to them.
To one I added some more shading and another flower and also added some more petals to the flowers that were already there.The other I covered with some crumpled up tissue paper and started again. The original pages are on the post 'New Art Journal Pages' and this is how they look now.

I much prefer this page to the original.

Bye for now x

More Journal Pages

Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to share two more journal/sketchbook pages with you.

This was created using Brusho Sprays and Pan Pastels. I cut out the heart shapes from previously sprayed pages left over from other projects and stuck them to the page using a glue stick. The silhouette was made using a body shape cut from a magazine and I used a black inktence pencil to go around the silhouette and hearts.

This page was made up of acrylic paints, stamped images, and I used modelling paste and a flower stencil which you can just make out on the middle of the page. The butterfly was an image transfer using gel medium on a tag which was covered with Brusho stained paper towel and applied to the tag using gel medium.

These two pages are my favourites so far. Hope you like them too!

Bye for now x

New Art Journal Pages

Hello Everyone,

Well, its the first post of the year and although it's a little late, Happy New Year.
This year I am going to try and create more and blog a little more often . Late last year I joined a group  called Sketchbook Friends.  I made the sketchbook/journal and posted the cover but didn't get around to doing any pages.

I decided that the cover was missing something so I added some stenciled flowers at the bottom in Lumiere paint in Russet.

Front Cover

Over the last few days I have completed two pages.

I  am a little disappointed how they turned out. I changed the look of the pages a number of times adding layer upon layer. Particularly the first page which originally looked like this.

Which I prefer to the finished page .
This is my first art journal so I expect it  will be trial and error until I eventually come up with a style of my own that I like.

This month I returned to my textile class and we started the year off by making a handmade felt picture.

Ideally felt pictures should be framed showing the outer edge of the piece so as to compliment the organic nature of the wool felt. But as you will see from the picture above the actual scene does not go to the end of the piece of felt so I prefer to frame it as in the picture below.

I don't think my textile tutor will agree but I prefer it that way.

Thanks for popping by.  I hope you will take a moment to leave a comment as they ar much appreciated.

Bye for now x


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Seasonal Greetings.

Hello Everyone,

Hope you are all enjoying the run up to Christmas. I just wanted to share with you this weeks offering for Tag Tuesday. This weeks theme was Decorating a Christmas Ornament.

This is a Christmas Bauble that I made in a Christmas Felt Making Workshop.

The wool tops were hand felted around a polystyrene ball and sequins were then attached by inserting pins with seed beads on the end.

The last couple of days I have been working on a mixed media picture which I have  framed for a Christmas gift. The photos came out a bit dark and this one is the best one of the bunch although not at the finished stage.

This is a pic of the finished piece.

Materials I used were Brusho Sprays (which I used for the first time), acrylic paint, Lumiere paint, oil pastels, rubber stamps, Distress ink in Vintage Photo for stamping and black calligraphy ink.

This will be my last post until all the festivities are over with so I would like to wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and see you in the New Year.

Bye for now x

More Tags.

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to share with you a couple of tags I did for ' Tag Tuesday'.

Winter Landscape

Music

 

 

I am hoping to post another Journal/Sketchbook page soon for SKETCHBOOK FRIENDS. It's a good thing that there is no time constraint on them because I have let things slip on that front due to Christmas preparations such as sorting and putting up decorations and Christmas shopping.

I did have time to go to the Knitting and Stitch Show in Harrogate. There was so much to see and to BUY (got lots of goodies) but I haven't had chance to have a play yet,will share them with you soon.

Hope everyone is enjoying the run up to Christmas.

Bye for now x

Tag Tuesday Catch up

Hi Everyone,
Here is an update on the tags I have done over the past few weeks for Tag Tuesday starting with the most recent.

Brown/Sepia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celestial

 

 

 

Halloween

 

Here are a couple of mixed media pictures I have done over the past couple of months when I was unable to post pictures, for the reasons given in a previous post.

It is easy to see why have chosen the theme Hearts and Flowers for my SKETCHBOOK FRIENDS Group isn't it? lol.

I would love to hear your comments they are always very much appreciated.

Thanks for dropping by.
Carol x