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I’ve been visiting sites through Paint Party Friday links and decided it was time to join in the fun. Since November is also Art Every Day Month over at Creative Every Day I decided to jump into a larger canvases this month. This one is 24×18 which was a big shift for me from my art journals.
Started with random squiggles and started to fill them in with paint.
Didn’t like how it was going – so I started spraying with water and letting it drip. Now I started to like it!
More color and drips. Then some white Sharpie words.
A few stencils and spray inks. The circles and flowering tree are from Crafter’s Workshop. The fluer de lis I made using a craft punch. Used the Tulip Fabric Paint Canon so I could get more of a spray paint look without the fumes.
The dark blue circles were from a dixie cup run through a glob of extra paint that was starting to dry out.
Black Sharpie words. I love lots of words. Still working to like my handwriting, but it will be buried in layers.
Using plaster gauze I created an umbrella. Just a bit of texture to add depth. I am impatient so I didn’t let it dry/cure all the way. An hour under bright lights and I was ready to go!
Started with the yellow umbrella, but it looked different on the canvas than I anticipated.
Added white raindrops. Liked them on the background but the umbrella still wasn’t right to me.
The white droplets needed a little sparkle. So I used a glue stick and foil to add a grungy touch of silver.
When I started with the black I intended to cover all the yellow, but the bits peeking through made me happy! You can see some of the silver sparkling but the photo doesn’t show how it changes as you walk past it and light reflects off of it. Really like metallics!
Day 3 of AEDM! This journal page represents all the people we meet on our journeys. There is an abundance of people who guide us on our paths and I was feeling very grateful for each one by the time I finished this page.
After taking Diana Trout’s class I decided to try my hand at using only 3 colors in a journal page. As I mixed colors I filled in a square on my journal page. The meaning, purpose, or story of this page had not revealed itself to me yet. Fancy way of saying, “No idea where this is going.”
I found myself over thinking what to do at this point so I just drew the squares with a Sharpie and punched out the leaves. I hadn’t glued the leaves down yet because I wasn’t sure if I wanted them centered or off center.
I started cutting up vintage photos and then the meaning of this page was revealed to me – the people I have met along my journey.
While reading some of the amazing Art Every Day blogs (and there are MANY GREAT BLOGS to inspire!), one idea resonated very strongly with me. This post discussed creating as a child and to adult. “I believe that the things we love to do as children are the things that are meant to part of our lives always.” That got me thinking about the children I am raising and have worked with over the years. The children just do it. They don’t spend hours trying to pick the perfect color. They don’t worry – they do. So, in that spirit, I used what I had, followed my whims, and made this art journal page. I’ve been excited about umbrellas and rain lately, and I’m just following it where it leads me….
A tree background with a bit of spray ink and tree stencil from Crafter’s Workshop. The umbrella is a paper I was playing with many moons ago.
Raindrops from scraps of painted text papers.
To add shine to the raindrops I covered them with Glossy Accents. The shine doesn’t show up so well in the photo…
A few touches finished it off- the raindrops got a touch of shading with a navy blue pitt pen, white porfolio crayon along the edges of the umbrella, and a bit of found text. These aren’t my usual colors – perhaps fall is finally taking hold…
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I’ve been visiting sites through Paint Party Friday links and decided it was time to join in the fun. Since November is also Art Every Day Month over at Creative Every Day I decided to jump into a larger canvases this month. This one is 24×18 which was a big shift for me from my art journals.
Started with random squiggles and started to fill them in with paint.
