Art Journal Page 171

Hi everyone!

Well it's been a while trying to get this page edited and uploaded since I've had the grandkids all week. But it's been a nice break and all will be back to normal next week so I'll have more time to play!

I started off with a nice bright yellow & orange background, similar to one of the ICADs I'd done in the Daisy Yellow Art 2017 ICAD Challenge and just went from there.

I decided to google some 'cute' images and came across the gnomes so decided I'd add a couple of mushrooms and flowers and see where it took me!

You can watch the full process video on YouTube by clicking HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
Liquitex Basics 'cadmium yellow medium hue' acrylic paint
Craftworks 'orange' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'cadmium yellow deep hue'
Liquitex Basics 'quinacridone magenta' acrylic paint
Reeves 'titanium white' acrylic paint
The Crafters Workshop 'mini flower shower' stencil
White Stabilo All pencil
Semco 'daffodil' acrylic paint
Delta Creative Ceramcoat 'opaque yellow' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'light blue violet' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'light green permanent' acrylic paint
Mont Marte 'scarlet' acrylic paint
Reeves 'mars black' acrylic paint
Black 0.7mm POSCA pen
Faber-Castell 'nougat' PITT artist big brush
Faber-Castell 'cold grey' PITT artist big brush
Black 'touch' pen
White extra fine point Sharpie paint pen
Black Stabilo All pencil
Scotch Quick Dry adhesive

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen

Art Journal Page 170

Hi everyone!

I recently received a bouquet of gorgeous roses which were wrapped in some textural 'paper' and I wanted to incorporate it into a journal page. So that's how the page started and well, it just went from there!

You can watch the full process video on YouTube by clicking HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
Textural 'paper' from a bunch of roses I recently received
Chromacryl Gel Medium
Golden gesso
Reeves 'deep turquoise' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'copper' acrylic paint
Art Basics light paste by Finnabair
Dylusions 'diamonds small' stencil
Aquamarine Nuvo Embellishment Mousse by Tonic Studios
Fresh Copper Nuvo Embellishment Mousse by Tonic Studios
Scotch Quick Dry adhesive
Ochre NeoColor II
Faber-Castell 'champagne gold' gelato
Portfolio 'golden brown' water soluble oil pastel
Black Stabilo All pencil
Aqua brush
Black Touch pen
Chipboard sunglasses (free gift with an online purchase)
Inkssentials Glossy Accents by Ranger

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen

Art Journal Page 169

Hi everyone!

Today I wanted to try a new technique that I saw over on Bella Rose Creative YouTube channel. You can click on the link HERE to watch Bella's technique. It wasn't a huge success but I have played with it since and have had fun playing around with the different mediums and the matte varnish.

Once I finished the background I didn't know where to go with this page, once again. But I soon saw an angel in there somewhere so just went with that LOL

You can watch the full process video on YouTube by clicking HERE.

Products used:

Tim Holtz 'melange' tissue wrap

Liquitex Professional Matte Medium

Dylusions 'lemon zest' ink spray

Dylusions 'fresh lime' ink spray

Dylusions 'dirty martini' ink spray

Dylusions 'calypso teal' ink spray

Dylusions 'london blue' ink spray

Atelier Matte Varnish

Golden gesso

The Crafters Workshop 'mini receipt' stencil

The Crafters Workshop 'fairywings' stencil by Carmen Medlin

Reeves 'mars black' acrylic paint

Liquitex Professional gesso

Clear WOW! embossing pen

Ranger 'gold tinsel' embossing powder

Heidi Swapp 'gold' Color Shine

White embossing powder

The Crafters Workshop 'elegant bracket' stencil

Ranger 'jet black' archival ink

Tim Holtz 'black soot' distress oxide

Scotch Quick Dry adhesive

Faber-Castell 'cold grey' PITT artist big brush

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Playing around with acrylic & varnish

Hi everyone!

I recently watched a video on YouTube by Bella Rose Creative. She was experimenting with matte varnish and how it reacted with sprays on her journal which prompted me to have a play with it myself on my recent Ustream show (you can watch the recording by clicking HERE).

The first page I really loved how it turned out. I applied gesso to the page, sprayed 'greased lightnin' green' and 'edelweiss moss green' by Lindy's Stamp Gang, as well as Adirondack 'sunset orange' color wash. I then quickly squirted a good amount of matte varnish to the page and folded in half and 'squished' it together, opened it up and this was the result:

I'm glad I took a photo of it before I started playing with the page and adding more to it. I decided to sponge on some white gesso over The Crafters Workshop 'cosmic bubbles' stencil and the following photo is the result:

Next I used Dylusions 'black marble' spray ink and Adirondack 'red pepper' Color Wash, then squirted on a good amount of matte varnish, squished the page together and opened it up to reveal the following:

For the next page I used Tattered Angels 'fully purple' glimmer mist and Dylusions 'rose quartz' ink spray (forgot to take a photo before I added the titanium white over The Crafters Workshop 'blazonry' stencil). This is the result:

Next we decided to use Lindy's Stamp Gang Hawaiian Flat Magicals to see how they worked with the matte varnish. I used 'ocean breeze blue', 'aloha avacado' and 'magical mai tai'. The result was a bit disappointing, but at least we tried it!

For our next experiment we used Tim Holtz 'candied apple' and 'black soot' distress oxides. As predicted the page wasn't as vivid as the sprays, obviously because when the oxidisation takes effect it dulls the colours, but it's a different take on the technique.

We decided to take two separate pages, gesso them both, spray Dylusions 'black marble' ink spray and Adirondack 'red pepper' Color Wash then add the varnish onto only one of the geessoed pages then take the plain gessoed page and sit it on top of the sprays & varnish page and smoosh them together. Once separated they looked awesome!!!! Again I forgot to take photos until after I sprayed them with some Heidi Swapp 'gold' Color Shine

For our last experiment we used Edelweiss Moss Green Starburst Spray with Adirondack Sailboat Blue Color Wash, then the matte varnish and this is the result:

Now that was a lot of fun, and a LOT OF MESS to clean up LOL. But at least I now have a few page starters for my home-made journal 😀

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Art Journal Page 168

Hi everyone!

Today I'm working in my Dylusions 8"x5" Creative Journal (it's almost full!), and I wanted to use the distress oxides in the background.

Once I had done the background I didn't want to ruin it by adding anything on top of it that would re-activate the oxides, such a dilemma! So I decided to spray it with a coat of workable fixative.

I was still apprehensive so I thought I would adhere some tissue wrap on top of it, thinking the background colours would come through. They did, but you didn't really get all the yummy texture and depth.

Oh well, maybe next time I will just add the fixative and try my luck!

You can watch the full process video on YouTube by clicking HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso

Dry wall tape

Golden gesso

Tim Holtz 'peeled paint' Distress Oxide

Tim Holtz 'twisted citron' Distress Oxide

Tim Holtz 'cracked pistachio' Distress Oxide

Micador Workable Matt Fixative

Tim Holtz 'melange' tissue wrap

Liquitex Professional Matte Medium

Turquoise opaque light body acrylic by Jacquard

Pearl Turquoise light body metallic acrylic by Jacquard

Pearl White light body metallic acrylic by Jacquard

Sunset Gold light body metallic acrylic by Jacquard

Lindy's Stamp Gang 'ocean breeze blue' Hawaiian Flat Magicals

Scotch Quick Dry adhesive

Faber-Castell 'cold grey' PITT artist big brush marker

Black PILOT FriXion pen

Clear WOW! embossing pen

Ranger 'gold tinsel' embossing powder

'vivid green' Inktense pencil

Black Stabilo All pencil

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen