Art Journal Project

Here's my Page.  You can see the water coloured background.  I used Shimmerz Inklingz!  Love,Love,Love these!!!

Here's a quick run through of what I did.....

I began by covering my whole page with Clear Gesso, making the paper less absorbent for wet media.

I painted my girls face, using Ceramcoat paint in Santa's Flesh and drew on her features and hair with Prisma's. 

Then tore up strips of music paper and glued it all onto her hair with gel medium.  Gel medium is a more slick surface than I would like, so I gave the hair another coat of clear gesso.

I let this dry and then added in the pencil lines indicating hair with a Prisma Color Pencil.

The hair was done with Vibez Razzle Dazzle Berry.

I put the Vibez in an aqua brush and painted it on in layers.   

Something fun......
I adore Prisma Color Pencils.  Like really love them.
Something interesting and very unexpected happens to them when used on Clear Gesso with the Vibez and water..... They behave a little like water colour pencils, and become soluble!  (So cool!)  Not sure why....but they do.  Who am I to argue.  Just work with it!

Next I got out My Inklingz.

I used the Pearl collection.

First I sprayed the background with water, then after activating the Inklingz with water, I loosely brushed the colour on.

Lastly I did some brush lettering and added a quote using India Ink.

And that's it from me today.

Have a wonderful day!

Whimsy Girls Art Journal "Choose Happy...."

A video Share today, showing how I created a Journal page, featuring a whimsy Girl.

Lots of Shimmerz Paints to create the background.

Texturez and Dazzlerz to create  Texture

 

Products Used

Shimmerz Paints

Vibez-Pop Art Pink, Snow Storm

Shimmerz-Pink

Spritz-Carribean Sunset

Dazzlerz- Spun Sugar

Texturez-Gold Mine

Acrylic Paint, Prismacolor Pencils, Water colour Pencils

Clear Gesso, Gel Medium

See you again soon.

Palette #118 The Scrap Cake

This past week has been the start of The Scrap Cake Sponsorship at The Color Room.
Seriously pretty goodies to play with and at least two of the collections that are being focused on in the next few weeks are Designed by one of our Designers Karola Witczak.  Stunning Papers and the palettes this month will reflect this....

The Sketch this week if you want to give it a try.......

Heres my what my play date this week with my art journal looked like........

I used some Shimmerz- Mango Madness featured in there quite heavily.....So pretty!!!

A Faber Castell Gelato (blue metalic)

and a Blue Faber Castell Big Brush Marker and a stamp......

(Plus a bit of normal stamping in black there too.)

Thanks for stopping in today.

A video to share for Helmar.

Its my turn again on the Helmar Blog.
I am creating an Art Journal page using some Helmar Art Mediums.

Helmar Decoupage craft Paste and Helmar 2 Step Crackle Medium.
Both of these items can be found HERE for more details.

I had a lot of fun using these two products on my journal background page today.
Take a look.

 

It seems the video is reversed.  I apologise.  I just started using a new editing programme and I could not for the life of me work out how to flip it back the right way.  Hopefully I will work it out soon, or there will be no point showing labels on screen anymore!!!!

Hope you enjoy it, and it inspired you to go make something just for fun.

Art journaling.

I have been playing (quite literally!) With Art journaling.
I am having a wow-of-a-time.
I bound my own journal, using lots of old and VERY unappealing papers, mixed with some inclusions of envelopes, handmade papers and vellum.  Even this was fun.
Here is is in it's unfinished entirety!!!!

This is an ongoing adventure and I am loving every minute.
Its creating for fun.  Free time Art.  No expectations.
I Love it.

One page looks like this.......

and another

Its nice to have no boundaries.  Or more to the point, challenge myself to just let it go and create something with no expectations.....I place far too many expectations on my work. This is a growing exercise for me.

I have been inspired and motivated by  Rach0113, Milliande, Donna Downey, Willowing and Suzyblu on You tube.  Love watching these women create in their journals.

Anyway.....Thats it for today.
Bye!!!