Art Journal Page 183

Hi everyone!

A quick page today playing around with black and bright colours. Today's page was inspired by a photograph I saw on Graphic Stock recently. Having done it, I want to do it again and try getting a smoother transition between the black and the colours.

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

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso

Dina Wakley 'ruby' heavy body acrylic paint

Dina Wakley 'tangerine' heavy body acrylic paint

Dina Wakley 'turquoise' heavy body acrylic paint

Liquitex Basics 'cadmium yellow deep hue' acrylic paint

Pebeo 'fluorescent yellow' acrylic paint

Pebeo 'iridescent violet blue' acrylic paint

Liquitex Basics 'quinacridone magenta' acrylic paint

Dina Wakley 'lemon' heavy body acrylic paint

Semco 'lavender' acrylic paint

Gold gelly roll metallic pen by Sakura

Faber-Castell black PITT artist brush pen

WOW! clear embossing ink pen

Ranger 'gold tinsel' embossing powder

Derivan Matisse 'folk black' coloured gesso

Embossing pillow

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Art Journal Page 182

Hi everyone!

Working again in my Strathmore 12x9 Bristol-Smooth Visual Journal today.  I really like the paper, just find it hard when I'm used to double page spreads.

Again I'm working with blue and butterflies LOL. I'm finding it a bit of a struggle creating a portrait style page.

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

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
KaiserCraft 'black & white timeless' paper pad
Tattered Angels 'patina' glimmer mist
Tattered Angels 'jazz blue' glimmer mist
Tattered Angels 'denim blue' glimmer mist
Tattered Angels 'moonlight' glimmer mist
Tattered Angels 'midnight blue' glimmer mist
Tattered Angels 'sapphire' glimmer mist
Tattered Angels 'glacier' glimmer mist
Adirondack 'sailboat blue' Color Wash
Heidi Swapp 'peacock' Color Shine
KaiserCraft 'porcelain rose' stamp set
Versafine 'onyx black' ink
KaiserCraft 'botanical' stamp set
KaiserCraft 'butterflies' stamp set
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'bitty grunge' stamp set
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
Dylusions 'slate grey' ink spray
Tattered Angels 'graphite' glimmer mist
Scotch Quick Dry adhesive
Tim Holtz 'small talk' Idea-ology stickers
Uni-Pin 0.5 fine line black pen

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen

Blind 3 Colour Art Journal Page Challenge on Ustream Today

Hi everyone!

It's Friday again! And today I streamed via Ustream and chatted with some art friends while I painted a page in my old repurposed journal book.

Today was all about the blind 3 challenge. The blind 3 challenge means that you close your eyes and grab out 3 tubes of paint and only use those colours, black and white are okay to use as these are not technically colours.

So what 3 colours did I grab? alizarin crimson hue, brilliant purple and bronze!

Not my favourite colours LOL but it worked out ok in the end with the help of my FIBs (friends in the box).

We even had some 'special' guests on today's stream. Mike Wheeler (co-founder of Toonworld), who is also my daughter Shasz's partner. Mike actually showed how he teaches kids to draw.

We also had my hubby, Squizz, come in and actually do some drippage on the page LOL.

Today was all about having fun, and that's exactly what we did! If you ever see yourself with a bit of time on your hands on Fridays at 11am (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time) or 8pm Thursdays (USA Eastern time) you should come on over and join us. Click HERE for the link to my Ustream channel.

If you would like to check out the Ustream recording for today's page I have uploaded it to my Jenny Potter YouTube channel and you can CLICK HERE to watch the recording.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
Liquitex Basics 'alizarin crimson hue' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'brilliant purple' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'bronze' acrylic paint
Global Colours 'white' acrylic impasto
Creative PL 'mars black' acrylic paint
Atelier Traditional Moulding Paste
The Crafters Workshop 'mini sheet music' stencil
Scraps of paper
Chromacryl gel medium
White extra fine Sharpie paint pen
Textured paint roller
Stickers for title from Sticker Nation 2 book

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen

Art Journal Page 181

Hi everyone!

After I had finished the background I still had no idea where I was going with this page. I then thought I'd 'put a bird on it' and call it done. But when I coloured the bird I saw that it was pink and blue, same as the background. Then I thought - girl/boy. I then searched 'gender' on google and came up with the quote!

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

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso

The Crafters Workshop 'mini tie dyed' stencil

The Crafters Workshop 'mini tile texture' stencil

KaiserCraft 'butterfly' template

The Crafters Workshop 'mariposas' stencil

Creative PL 'mars black' acrylic paint

Dylusions 'vibrant turquoise' ink spray

Dylusions 'bubblegum punk' ink spray

The Crafters Workshop 'mini circle grid' stencil

Derivan Matisse 'Australian blue gum' acrylic paint

Clear Snaps 'heart arrow' stencil

Pebeo 'cerulean blue' acrylic paint

Global Colours 'white' acrylic paint

Tim Holtz 'spun sugar' distress paint

The Crafters Workshop 'mini whimsical vines' stencil

The Crafters Workshop 'capricious' stencil

Versamark clear embossing ink

White embossing powder

Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'bird crazy' stamp set

Tuxedo Black Memento ink

Tim Holtz 'salty ocean' distress ink

Tim Holtz 'broken china' distress ink

Tim Holtz 'tumbled glass' distress ink

Tim Holtz 'picked raspberry' distress ink

Black Pentel Touch pen

Black 0.7mm POSCA pen

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Art Journal Page 180

Hi everyone!

I was recently gifted a hand-made notebook journal by Janet (Janet M. Young on YouTube) and I am so in love with what she did to the covers that I tried to replicate it on this journal page. It's not as vibrant as Janet's cover but it'll do! I'm working in my Dylusions 11"x8" Creative Journal today.

You can CLICK HERE to watch Janet's recording of making the notebook journals.

You can watch the full process video on YouTube on how I created this page by clicking HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
KaiserCraft 'script' stamp
Brilliance 'starlite black' pigment ink by Tsukineko
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'bitty grunge' stamp set
Prima 'warm gray' Color Philosophy dye ink
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
Tattered Angels 'jazz blue' glimmer mist
Lindy's Stamp Gang 'tibetan poppy teal' starburst spray
Adirondack 'sailboat blue' Color Wash
Heidi Swap 'peacock' Color Shine
Dylusions 'letter jumble' stencil
Donna Downey 'bubbles' stencil
istencils '27-00107' stencil
Dylusions 'diamonds small' stencil
Liquitex Basics 'bright aqua green' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'cadmium yellow medium hue' acrylic paint
Mont Marte 'yellow pink' acrylic paint
Jo Sonja's 'rose gold' fluid acrylic paint
Black 0.9-1.3mm POSCA pen
Heidi Swapp 'gold' Color Shine
Book page (gifted by Cathy Krebs)
Pebeo 'iridescent blue green' acrylic paint
Global Colours 'brilliant gold' acrylic paint
Fiskars 2 1/2" circle punch
Stampin' Up! 1 3/4" circle punch
Stampin' Up! 1" circle punch
Scotch Quick Dry adhesive
Black Stabilo All pencil
White extra fine point Sharpie paint pen
Tim Holtz 'big chat' Idea-ology stickers
Water brush

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen