Vintage patterns-digital images and art-art quilts-mixed media
Loved this lesson with Donna, she took her unused paint from her pallets and brushes and smushed it down on journal pages and then used those pages full of explosive colour backgrounds and built on them. I have always done the same thing whether it’s a page I didn’t like and it has to be covered or in a book I will cover it with paint I haven’t used in my latest project. What appears is always appealing and looking for more.
This was an interesting piece to do. Roben had us using stamps, stencils, pens, paints and pretty much everything else as well. The black outlined flowers are my own carved stamps. This piece is a bit darker than I usually do but I like it as it is, a bit broody.
This week’s Life Book 2015 lesson brought us Andrea Gomoll who showed us how to get through a slump and create something whimsical and pretty. I chose fairies in the grass with a little magic aura around them. I am starting to love the neon colours.
This piece was done with a magazine ad of a face and painted over. The woman had a coffee cup in her hands and I placed forget me nots to not forget to value myself as much as I do others in my life. I gave her grey hair because I have grey hair. She is me after all.
I found a box of printable sticky labels at a Value Village the other day and the first thing I thought of doing was to paint on one of these pages. I just randomly painted, stamped, wrote and painted some more until the page was filled without worrying about composition. This page can now be torn or cut into sections when I need a bit of something on a journal page, the backing pulled off and stuck straight onto the page. I am now working on another using left over paint etc to cover it. When it’s full I will have another page. I loved just getting down and arty without having to worry about whether something looks balanced or the colours merge properly simply because it doesn’t matter. I can also use the image for digital pieces over and over without destroying the original piece.
Home was created for the ‘scrap a word’ challenge at the Just Art site. I used images gleaned from the morgue files site Morgue Files. Filters, blending modes, transparencies and colour curves were all used in this piece. The sparkles are a brush provided with my PSE 11. This is a joyful piece full of romance and mist just as home should always be.
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