A fun art journal page of a woman with a kitten on her head, I love the tiara.. lol I need to work on lettering though.. I’m thinking of taking an online course by Traci Bautista. I also used painted paper cuts on the page.
Category: Art journaling
New art journal page – trust
I started this art journal page as I wanted to paint a bird and darker skinned lady, however as the picture emerged I realised it was about trust. The bird having enough trust in the lady to land on her, and the lady allowing the bird’s sharp beak to be so close to her eyes….
New art journal page – Live
This page was originally going to be about Billie Holiday but as the image appeared I decided to change it into an angel :) The face was made with acrylics, the background is water-soluble crayon, gesso and acrylic. I cut the orchids and lettering on my silhouette cameo. The image is wrong on so many…
New art journal page – Seek
I made an art journal page using some of my Lifebook lessons. I used acrylic paint, watersoluble crayon, gesso, acrylic ink, posca pens and inktense to create it, with about 10 million layers :P As the lady appeared I thought she looked like a nomad, which brought up a question in my mind about seeking,…
Lifebook – Spray inks, modelling paste, stags and afros
This was a lifebook lesson about using patterns in mixed media artwork, we had to create a stag, I then made another one in my art journal featuring a man. I used modelling paste for the first time, its a lovely shimmery, mother of pearl colour.
Lifebook – Freedom Flowers and sketchy self-portrait
I wasn’t going to post this picture as we had to make a sketchy portrait of ourselves as part of the lifebook class. But I decided to be brave.. it doesn’t really look much like me as I didn’t look in the mirror when I made it..lol :P The class was by the lovely jennibellie…
Lifebook – spray inks and watersoluble crayon
This was a wonderful lesson called Honouring Your Inner World with Serena Bridgeman, I pretty much just followed the lesson with this one, (not something I usually do) as the imagery was so beautiful. Blending and shading with the water-soluble crayon was a bit of a challenge and took many many thin layers mixed with…
Limited colour palette – Scary Vampire Woman
This Lifebook 2014 class required us to use a limited colour palette, I used 3 colours of acrylic paint on some pretty cheap watercolour paper from The Works… the paper started flaking off after a few layers so will be sticking to the Langton paper for heavily layered work. I blended the acrylics using both…
Lifebook – Honouring Your Inner World
I LOVED making this, it was soo soothing and relaxing, I used complimentary colours and handmade stencils for the background and sketched the seated figure with charcoal. I also got to use my new neocolor II watercolour crayons.. :) This picture makes me want to climb inside the painting and sit cross-legged whilst doing breathing…
Lifebook – In the moment
In this lesson we had to find all sorts of mark making tools from around the house and use them to make a layered abstract background. I used a sanding tool, some skewers, a crochet doily, a square metal tube, some lace and various other odds and ends. It felt very freeing to create with…
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