This blog was set up for the spreads that I do in my daily life art journal. It is simply a Mead Composition notebook where most of the pages have been transformed with acrylic paint, rubber stamps, magazine clippings, bits of my calligraphy, and my writing about whatever happened to me that day.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
April Showers
This spread was a combo of several experiments, and I'm pleased with how it turned out.
I painted the pages with midnight blue paint, using my brush to create swirls and while it was still wet, I used the pointed end of a bottle opener to draw loop-de-loops in the paint on the right side.
Next, emulating a technique that I learned here: http://web.me.com/jwesolek/cre8it/Blog/Entries/2009/4/17_Artist_in_the_Kitchen_-_Food_for_Thought.html I cut some frames from fun foam.
Stamped them with "Crafter's Ink" by ColorBox. The green one didn't show up very well on the dark blue paint, so I enhanced it with a green Prismacolor pencil. I also used that pencil to write the numbers and the words "April Showers." Retraced them with a white pencil, which is what I used, as well, to write the text.
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I've noticed there are no comments to your wonderful pages. Well, I guess that means I will be the first at least for the most recent ones. Jessica's classes make pages quite different from yours. Your pages seem quite feminine. I can see my daughter saying "now that's a pretty page" unlike what she says when she sees mine. Ah well, we are each unique and have to use our own voice. I need to remember that we can make our own stamps from this foam. It's fun, isn't it?
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