Meet my friend and artist Rachel Greig. See how she feels in January, what she can never be without and how she starts her day with a yummie treat :)
A Visual Interview with Rachel Greig from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.
Rachel is one of the teachers of Creative JumpStart 2017 along with 26 other artists – read more about this Mixed Media Online Class and sign up here. It is not too late to join us!
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself!
I painted the background with different blue and teal acrylic colors – also mixing some white gesso in there in between.
I layered the Versailles 9×12 Stencil on top and sprayed some orange and parchment colored acrylic spray paint over the stencil.
I love the dimension spray paint layered up can give and this is definitely one of my favorite stencils.
Here are the supplies I used for this art journal spread – some links are affiliate links:
have a beautiful day!!!
Love making tags that I can use for gifts or just as card to give to someone. For this I tag I used the Cardboard Stamp Set
and stamped with archival ink on the the tag, then used acrylic paints and scraped them over the tag. I like when the stamped images are part of the background
I stamped the Hope Tag Stamp on top of some left over raw canvas and then fringed out the edges and applied it with Gel Medium to the tag.
I usually ink up the cling stamps and press them not perfectly onto the background to get bits and pieces of the imagine blending into each other onto the background.
Here is a short list of supplies I used for this tag – some links are affiliate links
Wishing you a wonderful day !
This was a little reminder for me at the time I created this art journal spread. It worked ;)
The background of the art journal spread was ugly from some scraped of left over paint – but a stencil like the Granada Stencil is the perfect stencil to work on such a background and make it work. I layered it on top of the background and then used different colors of spraypaint in different areas of the stencil.
I love to scratch into the still wet acrylic spray paint too as it gives such a nice texture.
Awe- spray paint- you make me happy.
Here is a list of the supplies I used for the art journal spread – some links are affiliate links:
If you art journal, do you use your journaling sometimes to prepare yourself for something like I do?
WONDERFUL! Rich colors blended so incredibly with the stencil design. Love the freedom! j.
For this quick art journal spread I stamped some of the Embroidery Stamps onto the blank background and then painted over the background, alternating between a thin transparent layer and an opaque purple layer. I stamped again on top of the dried paint with different stamps and archival ink. For the border I used the Satin Stamp – it is a great border stamp.
I used the Chain Link stamp to create pattern on the magazine image dress.
For the journaling I used a fude pen in black and then wrote on top of it in white with a signo pen. I love stamping and covering up – repeating – the process – as I feel it makes it more interesting if you don’t know where a stamp was applied or how.
Here is a supply list – some links are affiliate links:
Do you use stamps in your art and craft?
Have a wonderful day!
Love this journal page! I’m participating in the #ArtMarks30DayChallenge with Rae Missigman and am loving working in my journal each day. I really haven’t made time enough to do that in the past so one of my 2017 resolutions is to get more journaling in. Love your work. You are an inspiration, Nathalie!
I haven’t shown this painting yet which I did last year. It depicts a moment at the beginning of the big snow blizzard in January 2016. I stept outside the door to take a quick photo. The light was just amazing and I had to capture that moment in a painting. I used acrylic paints, markers and charcoal. It is one of my favorite paintings I did last year – the only way I like winter …in a painting ;)
Ohhhh, I love this painting! Awesome work.
Thank you so much Cheryl!
I don’t say it enough but, I enjoy your site. You always have fresh ideas.
Thank you so much Barb! have a gorgeous day and thank you for visiting me :)
Oh Oh OH OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh – It’s INCREDIBLE Nat. Those colors… and those buildings…. AMAZING. The snow is perfect too. I agree – the only way to have snow is in a painting!!! This is a MASTERPIECE…. in my eyes!! You made my week – thanks so much for sharing. Xj.
Awe. Joi- you are the super sweetest. thank you so much !!! have a beautiful weekend!
jaja jaaja – I knooooooww- but it is so hard to focus , isn’t it? LOL.
I used my new Mesa Verde 9×12 Stencil and sprayed with read acrylic spray paint over a previously painted background.
I painted over a magazine image with acrylic paints and used some pencil and pens on top.
Love the pattern – it makes me want to travel now, forget focus I guess ;)
Here are some of the supplies I used for this art journal spread – some links are affiliate links:
Are you good focusing on your stuff?
The red is great! BTW I see you’re coming to Ohio for Artiscape – yay!!! Hoping to get into a couple of your classes
Ohhhh how cool- I cannot wait to meet you :)
Same here :)
Oh! You know what… I have that spray paint. And I still haven’t used it! I also have some ugly painted backgrounds in my art journal… I think I know what to do with those now! ;-)
LOL I love using it with those backgrounds because it really nicely covers :)
What a great background – love the way the colors blend. Great girl too. I wear some type of hat every day – love her hat!! Always inspiring Nat. Xj.
Thank you so much Joi! I always wanted a hat but somehow I think I am not a hat person- LOL – I don’t look to smashing in it ;) Have a wonderful week! Nat
Absolutely FABULOUS – wow… wow… love this. And…. YOU dear Nat are always just YOURSELF and BEAUTIFUL! Xj.
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