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Silas and Sigmund

What is Powerwax and how to use it in an art journal thumbnail

https://youtu.be/iCz27duUlQQ What is Powerwax? It’s a cold wax that is water based from Powertex. That water based part is huge to me. The whole reason I haven’t even tried cold wax before this was simply because it required oil paints.  But Powerwax plays with acrylics! So I turned on the camera and  jumped in. During the [...]

Stenciled Nonsense & Altered Book Journaling thumbnail

https://youtu.be/Jv_hNDqisUQ You’ll see my pen struggles, my OOPS stenciling, and a surprising message that came about on the page as I add more layers to an altered book journal. And you’ll see the cost of my impatience, that I don’t mind one bit. The stenciling began by going up and down, the best way to [...]

Getting the Most from Your Stencil Masks thumbnail

How can you get the most from your masks when stenciling? By letting them do the hard work because masks can make things easier! https://youtu.be/Q9jnmoBlc8E The Silly Silas and Sigmund stencil set includes 3 masks and the stencil. That gives you a lot of flexibility so these crazy characters do just what you need. Using [...]

Who Told Me to Do What? thumbnail

I was told to do all sorts of stuff- and it was a blast! In my most recent live stream, I completely trusted the friends in my Facebook group, Rediscovering Your Creativity, to tell me what to do. I had to do what they said, in the order they said it. It was fast and [...]

Play Is the Beginning of Knowledge & an OOPS thumbnail

Does everything go as planned? No & that is the fun, this is play after all! You’ll probably laugh at how many times I redid the stenciling on this piece of recycled cardboard and why I chose to do the very last thing to it. https://youtu.be/Zc3mt5etQvs You can art on anything- including cardboard packing material. [...]

New Stencils Just Released thumbnail

What secret have I been keeping? 4 new stencils! They’ve just been released at StencilGirl Products and there were 2 big influences on these, play and Henri Matisse. https://youtu.be/zJeCLGgKHg0 When I saw The Dance by Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art, I was speechless. Sure I loved the feeling of unrestricted movement and [...]