What are these Color Bursts from Ken Oliver? They are a powder, lightweight, but pack a mighty punch once you add water. Might even say they burst with color when wet. https://youtu.be/kUaBgwTkInk Watch Color Burst Basics on YouTube. You can find Color Burst here. Be sure to stop back tomorrow because there is a blog hop [...]
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I went too far. I was just playing around on cardboard and was really becoming very very happy with what was developing. So I kept going…and then I went too far. Does that ever happen to you? Was that a mistake? Nope, not at all. It was an Oops, an Outstanding Opportunity that Presented Suddenly. The [...]
During a recent conversation there was a word a friend kept using to describe PanPastels. Intimidating. She had seen some amazing fine art created with them and felt incredibly intimidated because she was not a fine artist. Well, I am not a fine artist. I am an Oops artist. That means I can just grab things and see [...]
Sometimes out of chaos comes something good. And there was plenty of chaos happening in this art journal from the very beginning. It was a mess. I had no plan which was very clear as visual overload hit in the middle! But out of that chaos emerged a story. http://youtu.be/gaAhU_r-QXE Watch Creative Chaos in My [...]
I’m playing with patterns as the designer of this month’s stencils for StencilClub! One of the best ways for me to learn is to play. What did I learn as I played with potential designs? 1. I wanted the ability to do complicated looking work effortlessly. I am not patient. At all. The 6×6 stencil and [...]
Maria McGuire is a doodler. She can make magic with a pen and she loves to create stencils that have spaces made for doodling. I am not a doodler by nature but I have found doodling to be a bit infectious, in a good way! http://youtu.be/ZUXK1HkFhiI Watch Dream Landscape Art Journal Play on YouTube. I started [...]
Craft Attitude solved a big problem for me. My problem of getting rich color on metal that won’t smear. I don’t have a lot of metal paints and that doesn’t matter any more! Keep reading because this is a blog hop so there’s lots of inspiration and a giveaway too! I printed out one of [...]
Making your own papers on the Gelli plate means you have an instant collection of coordinating papers. What can you do with those Gelli prints? One thing is art journal with them. I picked 3 coordinating papers I made during this months’s Colorful Gelli Print Party. You can see how I made these prints using [...]
Just about anything can become a tool to use for Gelli Printing. A bit of rope, glue, and cardboard have endless possibilities on the Gelli Plate. Check out the video for this month’s Colorful Gelli Print Party to see how easy this is to make! http://youtu.be/TJvU3tIhuJs Watch Making a Rope Texture Tool for Gelli Printing on [...]
My stenciling wasn’t perfect. My colored pencil work wasn’t perfect. Nothing on this is perfect and I love it that way! This Gelli print, made using a technique from my One Pull Wonders workshop, started it all. The swirls of color started to look like continents and it fit so perfectly with Mary Nasser’s stencil…before [...]
