What makes a great canvas for play? One that I don’t like anymore! There were marks all over this, there was texture, there was pattern, there was color. But together, they just didn’t rock my world. At one time, I had liked this canvas, but not any more. This was a perfect opportunity to play! [...]
Carolyn Dube’s Stencils
It slices, it dices…well not really, but the Gel Press plate did just about everything for this art journal page! It masked, it stamped, it added the title and of course, made the background. https://youtu.be/f8BWolgkx_U Watch Stamping, stenciling and masking all on a gel plate on YouTube. Using a gel print from my stack of papers [...]
I was avoiding an inevitable grown up task, thanks to leftover paint. My must do project for a deadline was finished but I just had to use up the last remnants of the paint. Since I really didn’t want the play to stop, I used a small brush. It had to take me longer to use it [...]
How can you use deli paper in your art journaling? One of the ways is layering it on top of a pattern so that the pattern peeks out! https://youtu.be/6rnzUR8mT3Q Watch Using deli paper in art journal on YouTube. Here’s the pattern created using the Pebbles Layer Me stencil. New to layering stencils? See the video of [...]
What is art? A simple question that has many many answers. It can be a wide variety of things, but for me, it is a journey of expression, connection and an adventure. It’s an exhilarating adventure to see what will happen when I add patterns or colors. A place to ask what if and get lost [...]
The day had been filled with grown up thinking and decision making and I had become a bit of a stress monster so my family banished me to the art studio to play. I wasn’t up to starting with a blank page so I flipped through my journals and found a stenciled page to begin the process of shaking [...]
Washi tape made a colorful background for an art journal page and since it is tape, there was no waiting for it to dry. Just the right place for a dancing butterfly man to be stenciled. https://youtu.be/WlcuSPbrgbg Watch Using Washi Tape in My Art Journal on YouTube. Randomly, I filled the page with washi tapes. You might [...]
Finding images inside free Sparks of Art-spiration is like spotting objects and characters in the clouds. In this one, I saw Bed Head Betsy, a very happy woman waking up excited about the wonders the day holds for her. In the video, you can see how I bring the image out and use it to build an [...]
The plan for this canvas went horribly wrong. The idea in my head did not translate one bit the way I intended on the canvas. That is a polite way of saying “Yuck, it was rear end ugly!” But it was just an O.O.P.S., an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly, that started the journey of this canvas. [...]
What do I do when I want to play but don’t want to tackle a blank page? I flip through my art journals and see which page calls to me. That’s one of the perks of having random backgrounds and pages in progress sprinkled throughout. The page that called to me was loaded with brown, which usually affects me [...]
