Hello there !
How are you doing ?
I just wanted to share with a bit of inspiration found in my flickR contacts recently (or not that recently).
1. make the most of yourself…, 2. A lovely dream cover journal, 3. My current view (painting in progress ), 4. Art Journal – Moleskine – Dylusions blog hop, 5. Moment of Saturday, 6. altar, 7. Owl (atc), 8. Alice, 9. Four of Cups
Here is what I’ve done for the week-end of “Get Your Art ON“, day 3 and 4:
Still in my Art Journal, I badly needed to go through very negative feelings so it was the safest place to do so (this is when it becomes more of Creative Journal than an Art Journal.
On the morning, I was feeling well, I sprayed blue and green spray inks through a swirly stencil, over a previously gesso-ed page.
Then I got wonky inside and broke up so I took my journal and just wrote it all…. Writing itself helped a lot, but paired with drawing etc it is just total therapy !!!
After I wrote, I put another thin coat of gesso, to cover it up. Burying it. Here is how it looked like then, on Saturday (the sticker is just one my daughter wanted me to use):
Tonight, I simply sketched a girl over it… (I will retouching the picture tomorrow as I am writing it on my IPhone, in my bed. Sorry for the poor quality for now. EDIT: retouched a bit so it is clearer but still sorry for the poor quality.):
We’ll see how it will turn out tomorrow 😉
Good night !
Here is what I’ve done for the second day of “Get Your Art ON“.
I don’t know Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and her art for a long time but kind of immediately fell in love with her style. I am not a scrapbooker, she is mainly one, but she does apply a lot of mixed media in it and is an avid Art Journaler as well. She recently launched a stencils line with The Crafter’s Workshop and this is exactly what I like (Henna hands anyone ? :D). So I went on a hunt for the ones I really love and got some in the both 12×12 and 6×6 size.
On her blog, Julie recently showcased the stencil above, called “Fragmented Flower“). I really loved her stencils-over-stencil idea, that you can easily achieve with this specific stencil because of all the great more or less big portions.
This idea was a must-try in my mind (and it meshed another one I will have to try as soon as possible, that shoul be as fun, if not even more !!!).
So here is my result; I began by tracing the stencil with a fine point permanent pen (I taped the stencil to my page for the all process), then i layered smaller stencil where I wanted it to be and used either ink or PanPastel:
You can’t see it because I took the picture before, but it looked unfinished to me so I dripped airbrush white paint on the right upper side and then sprayed some “Love At First Sight” Starburst by Lindy Stamp Gang.
It still feels like it needs something more, like journaling. It will come later 🙂
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Hello !
My life is currently under a huge adjustment, and it is not an easy one. But I know it will get easier eventually, and that I have the power not to stay this angry woman I am sometimes. I can still be the positive thinking and fun lady I was before.
This week, I am grateful for:
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“Get Your Art ON”, initiated by Traci Bunkers, is back !
This will force me a little to share, as I basically do create everyday or almost… But I feel like I don’t share it enough. Speak of perfectionism…
Here is what I created on September 1st, day 1.
It was just sketching in my art journal while watching tv.