Flower of the Month: Daffodils

Today, on 12 Months in View, Susan Ernst shared her knowledge of plants and in particular the daffodil and then took us through a step by step tutorial to produce a journal page.

People who know me well know that I never end up with what the tutor says, so it will come as no surprise that my page and technique isn't quite the same as Susan's.

I found the Robert Herrick poem and printed it out.  I tore round the poem and stuck it in my journal.  I wish I had used gel medium rather than glue stick!

I followed Susan's instructions regarding the acrylic wash and the tracing of my image.  Then I coloured it in with Inktense pencils and used a paintbrush and water rather than a waterbrush.  I used a black chinamarker type pencil to go over the pencil lines  and swiped a lemon Distress Inkpad over the page.  I stamped the word onto the page.

I am really pleased with the result.  It isn't a style I would normally use but I really enjoyed it.  Thanks Susan.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice

March Calendar

I have been taking part in Kate Crane's Art Journaling Calendar on and off for a couple of years.

And I started this year with good intentions and managed to prepare the January page but never actually filled it in.

February passed me by completely.

Over on 12 Months in View I suggested that people might join in with Kate's calendar idea, which has kickstarted my calendar.

I put white acrylic paint over the pages and when it was dry I put some lemon distress ink on direct from the pad.

I spread the yellow around the page and then dried it with a heat gun.  I added other colours, each time drying the colour before adding the next.


I used the Distress Inks through stencils and Punchinella using a foam pad.


Then I stamped the flowers with Adirondack orange ink and the quote and the month with black Archival.

Instead of squares of paper, or stamped squares, I stamped daffodils, one for each day of March.  I painted in the flowers with Lemon ReInker and the stems with Dylusions Lime using a paintbrush.  In the photo you can see the difference between the painted ones and the ones I hadn't done.

Be warned though.  The ReInker took a very long time to dry and I had patted it with paper towel, used the heat gun and left it to air dry.  I added the March Hares.

And here's a closeup with some writing.

Now all I have to do is remember to fill it in every evening!

Thanks for popping by.

Bernice

Art Journaling in Derbyshire

At the weekend I went to Derbyshire to an art journaling workshop taught by Anneliese Bates from Creative Journey Workshops.

We were given an A4 sketchbook to work in and I am going to show you the whole book.  Some pages are finished, some are nearly finished and some have only been folded.

 

PVA resist

Lots of folded pages

 Masking tape resist

 Collage and gesso

 Masking tape

 Folded pages

Colorwash drippage

 Paper towel in pva (left) and writing in gesso

 Collage

More folded pages

Collaged borders and collage

 Another collage in the making

Clear embossing resist (left) and drawing in pen

 Colorwash background

And the last page is a blank white page and the black cover.

I had a fabulous time and feel I achieved quite a lot.   The best thing is that I can share these techniques with those who are joining in with 12 Months in View which starts today.

I hope you have enjoyed loooking through my journal.

Thanks for popping by.
Bernice