Art journaling has such power for me. Why? Because sometimes it reminds me of important messages from time to time. And that is exactly what happened today. Notice her chin. There’s no paint there and that is rather unusual since this was a print from a fully loaded Gelli Plate. And then I stamped right over [...]
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I went round and round for this month’s Colorful Gelli Print Party! And that is a great thing! Why? Because it was so much fun to play with the 4″ round Gelli Plate. While playing around…who should show up? But a child! Makes sense since I felt like a little kid myself! And he [...]
Would the 6″ round Gelli Plate be much different than the big one? I wondered…I wasn’t sure until I played with it. It is different! The size feels so different than the 8″ plate. And thanks to the size, what I could do with it in my art journal blew my mind. Take a peek at [...]
Have you seen Ken Oliver’s Color Bursts before? These bottles are loaded with a mighty powder that explodes with color when it gets wet. A full rainbow of fun! Check out the video where I share how they worked as a spray ink and as watercolors too! I’m not the only one playing with these – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
