April Challenge

The challenge set today on 12 Months in View is:
"Using Lime green, Lemon and Bluebell blue make a page, a layout, a tag, whatever you will based on any of the inspiration you have found on this blog post."

I decided I would try out some of the things I learned with Dina Wakley and that are contained in her book, Art Journal Freedom.

I spread a very thin layer of Gesso on the journal pages.  I added the green paint - rather too much of it really and it's probably too dark.  I added the paint with an old credit card which has given some hard lines.   Using the same stencil I used on Saturday I removed some of the paint with a baby wipe through the stencil.

I added the lemon paint with my fingers and did the same technique with the stencil.  I added the blue with my fingers and then used Dina's Mosaic stencil and a baby wipe to remove the paint.

I dipped a plastic top in white acrylic paint and 'stamped' 7 circles across the page.

While the white circles were drying, using a set of bird stamps and Archival ink, I stamped on book paper and some scrapbook cardstock and cut them out.

I wrote part of The Wasteland quote across the page and then stuck on the birds.

  
I felt it lacked something, so i added the red paint through some sequin waste.

I look forward to seeing what you do today with the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

My April Calendar

I like to join in with Kate Crane's Calendar Challenge.  My problem is that although I make the calendar it rarely gets filled in.  I said much the same in my blog post about March.

So let's see if I can manage it for April!

To make my April Calendar, I sprayed water on the journal pages and sprayed two colours of yellow.  Despite the risk of everything going brownish, I sprayed Turquoise at the top of the page and sprayed more water to make the inks drip down when I picked up the journal.   I used a Julie Fei-Fan Balzer stencil to draw the raindrops on the pages with an Inktense pencil and then coloured in the shape.

I went over the watercolour crayon with water to blend it.  I used a pale blue Paint Dabber through the stencil to make the raindrops at the edges of the pages.  And stamped with two sizes of the Tim Holtz stamp.

I drew round the raindrops with a Gellyroll pen.  I stamped the month and coloured it with pen.   I wrote the numbers in and the days of the week.   I drew a white highlight on each raindrop.

So now all I have to do is remember to fill it in!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Getting my art on!!!

Today I was able to have a go with the Gelli Plate I bought last week at Art from the Heart.

I have had some small bottles of Golden Paint for quite a long time (10+ years) and got them out to play with.  They were not really the colours that I use any more so I got out all my Ranger Dabbers as well.

I had ordered a large Dina Wakely stencil from A Sprinkle of Imagination and conveniently that arrived this morning.  So I unwrapped that and found all the large stencils that I have.  Not as many as the small ones!!!

I took some paper out of a sketchbook and decided to limit myself to 10 initial prints using red and yellow acrylic paint.

No. 1 print and the shadow print  using large bubble wrap

Nos. 3 & 4 using a stencil

No. 5 which was actually the stencil I had used above pressed onto the paper

Nos. 6 & 7 using the Dina Wakley Mosaic stencil

No. 8 just pressing onto the stencil and no. 9 using the brayer directly onto the paper

No. 10 - just bits of paint that remained on the stencil

I was going to take a photo as I did each print on top - but I didn't so here are the same sheets of paper after several more layers of monoprinting.

Nos. 1 & 2

Nos. 3 & 4


No. 5

Nos. 6 & 7

Nos. 8 & 9


No. 10

And here are two extra pages that were part of the mop up of the Gelli Plate at various points.

And lastly the very last print that I did to remove all the paint left on the Gelli Plate and probably the best print I did.

 

Some of the pages are more pleasing than others and I've realised that I forgot to look at the level of transparency of the paint so some of the prints didn't work quite as well as others.


Thanks for popping by
Bernice