I have noticed that the cleaner my house is, the messier I like my art. Not that my house is that clean, just cleaner than it was in the past…Perhaps the messy teenager in me is finding its way out again..
I am loving the wedding ring stencil from Julie Balzer and Crafters Workshop. While I was playing with it I realized how much I love it! I had been using spray inks on another project with it when the stencil was soaked and dripping ink so I flipped it over and used up that ink. That image just called to me and the messiness began.
Since it was just playing I felt totally free with it. I added bits of color and used whatever I could grab to add details and color. This one was such fun I started playing with it on another page. I usually grab a Pitt pen to outline things but this time I used a fine point pencil. This gave it a softer look which went better with the lighter colors.
Letting loose and just doing whatever came to mind felt so rejuvenating- I need to remember to do this more often!
SO cool. Love the colors. Thanks for mentioning using a pencil instead of a darker pen. I never would have thought of that and it looks perfect on your page.
NOW if only messy art equaled an automatically clean house that happened by itself. This is a great stencil and you messiness just proves how much fun it can be. Lovin those oranges and blues! xox
Gorgeous use of your stencil. Very impressive use of pencil, too. I’m anal (yep, I admit it), so that could be why my art is seldom messy (at least not on purpose). It sounds like I also need to just let loose more often, especially after seeing these two examples. BTW, I often like the reverse of my stencils better than the front after they have ink on them.
Wonderful compositions with beautiful designs, I love the light they give off your beautiful color combinations. Greetings.
What an inspiring idea! I find that my house gets messy when I’m being creative because I don’t take time to clean it up!
Rinda
Great playful fun! I like the colors, the movement (must be a great stencil) and I always flip my stencils over too…..get some great backgrounds that way! Thanks for the reminder to be a little messy now and then.
I was a little hesitant to check out the “wedding ring” stencil.
I’m kinda skeptical of anything with the word “wedding” in it. 🙂
I really love the green one… looks like you were having so much fun here.
Happy week, Carolyn! xoxo
BEautimous!! In my tiny and very wee studio space in the Wee Cottage, I am always coming up with new ways to use and re-use or use-up “leftovers” from a collage or some painting. Sometimes I just “make a mess” of something, and then use the mess for something else. This is what I love about my getting to teach [which I have a Very Full Month of coming up starting tomorrow!!] collage to kids. I’ve been collecting scraps in a Very Large Ziploc since starting in September of 2010, and this week I am sorting it out into papers to use in May.
Thanks for inviting me in to enJOY your fun!!
Carolyn your images look 3D – lovely and amazing 🙂
Big love
AJ (she of the messy house and messy art)!
Both pieces are gorgeous! Love the colours and designs you created.
Cool stencil! I love both of these. So colorful and different from each other, too. Nice! 🙂
The bright colors and lines make for a very happy design! Lovely!
Gorgeous pieces, and the stencil is calling to me….I work in the kitchen, and just now it is messy and inky, and I still love sitting there, in the middle of my chaos! Have fun, Valerie
Carolyn, the colors in this are beautiful.
clean house? what does that mean? lol messy art, oh yeah, I get that.
Hi Carolyn! What a wonderful background you’ve created with these stencils! I think it’s so liberating to work in a journal, because one’s more likely to take risks and try new things; these pages are amazing! I’m inspired to go home tonight, grab some masks and stencils and my spray inks, and play!
I love the peaceful feel to your messy art:-) Or maybe it is just a happy feeling it brings. OR both. Bottom line: it made me smile. Thanks for visiting.
mx
wonderful compositions!!
As always, beautiful work (and I enjoyed the thoughts behind them!) Thanks for sharing – I look forward to seeing you at Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy this week!
Ramona 🙂