Art Every Day Month ~ day 22

I love the background of this.  I spread gesso with an old credit card so that there was some texture.  When it was dry I put watered-down acrylic paint with a brush and add some lime green with the credit card.   The numbers are stickers which I then coloured over with Neocolor crayons.

AEDM ~ 19, 20 & 21

I was so busy over the weekend that I didn't get time to blog but I did do some art every day.

Day 19
I went to a workshop run by Anneliese to make a Junque Journal.  However instead of making it using a composition book we altered an old library book instead.

Here are 3 sets of pages that I did.

Day 20
On Sunday after church I went to the Solihull Crop where I had a fun time.  It is, however, where I get to hone my procrastination skills and come home having done very little.   Yesterday I managed to start a minibook that I have been commissioned to make through WhollyCreative and here's a sneak peek of it.

Day 21 - Today
This page, back in my journal, is a practice piece for use in a different journal!!!   Random pieces of paper were glued to the page with matte medium and then a layer of gesso put over.  Whilst the gesso was wet I dry brushed some acrylic paint around the edges.  When it was dry I stamped with my new Paperartsy stamps and then coloured the flowers with a Neocolor crayon and a wet brush.

AEDM ~ day 18

This morning I was watching some technique videos by Moira Richardson over on the Art Journaling group I belong to.

So today for Art Every Day Month I have done a page of experimenting with different techniques.

First I used Ranger Alcohol Inks through a stencil.  Alcohol Inks are supposed to be used on glossy card but I've tried them on cartridge paper before and they were okay.  I hadn't tried them with a stencil before though.  I did some with the blender and some without.

Then I sprayed some Dylusions inks over the paper and dried it with paper towel.  I used a Wild Honey Distress Stain around the edges and then tried spraying water through the stencil on part of it.

I wrote 'experiments' with a brush and Dylusions Black Acrylic paint before outlining or dotting with a Posca Pen.   I also stamped with a Dylusions stamp and some Archival Ink.

The scruffy black bits around the edge is the black acrylic I used yesterday on the back of this page!