“Here is what I would like to tell you at last – I hope we are friends until we die. And then I hope we stay ghost friends and walk through walls and scare the sh* out of people!” -for a friend :)
I had spray painted over my self cut building stencil and rubbed off the excess paint on the right. Then I used the new Winsor & Newton Pigment Markers and used them to draw in and also on the images. I love how the colors pop although uncoated paper is not the perfect substrate for those markers. Below is a supply list of what I used.
Make sure to watch all videos until then if you haven’t yet! And a lot of you have asked if there will be a new edition of CJS in 2016 …well …you know, it would be the 5th edition, so what do you think? ;) All good things come in 5s …don’t they? (I know, I know…that is not quite how the saying goes…but hey ;) )
Gorgeous work! I was at MOMA last week and saw her self-portrait with monkey in a beautiful mirror and painted glass frame. Your journal work evokes the feeling and energy of Frida’s painting.
Fantastic journal piece, Nathalie. Absolutely love those colors and such a great quote to live by. Thank you for sharing your N*Studio stamps with us today!
My friend Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and I will be teaching the Mixed Media Circus: Art Journal Adventure workshop 1 hour North of Sydney in Berkley Vale – at the Darkroom Door Art Studio , Australia April 15 -17, 2016.
You can sign up for this 3-Day-Workshop here: Mixed Media Circus: Art Journaling Adventure. We would really love to see you there*-and we are super excited to come Down Under and it will loads of fun and a real art journaling adventure!
*if you are in the Melbourne area and would love to join us there- we are teaching at Artified April 8-10,2016 – sign up and more info here
Soooo excited about this. Some of you might remember that in July I joined my friends Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, Dina Wakely and Mary Beth Shaw in Texas for a Art Journaling Live Workshop with 75 students. The four of us taught different art journaling techniques and the event was recorded on video. Here is a little sneak peak
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You’ll love this art journaling video workshop if:
You missed the Art Journaling LIVE event, but want the instruction from the sessions
You are a fan of mixed-media artists Mary Beth Shaw, Dina Wakley, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, and Nathalie Kalbach
You want to learn exclusive techniques to grow your artistic skillset
Learn More about Each Session:
In “The Abstracted Journal,” StencilGirl Mary Beth Shaw gives you techniques for creating your own stickers, decorative tape, collage papers and more as you create an abstract art journal spread with unique component parts!
Complete two art journal pages with Dina Wakley in her class, “Random by Design,” as she gives you four fail-proof guidelines for creating an expressive, random look in your art journal without creating chaos!
In “Easy Lettering,”Julie Fei-Fan Balzer shows you ways to use your own handwriting to create more than 24 fancy lettering styles. Then, learn the best way to add shadows to make your text pop off the page!
Join Nathalie Kalbach for “Tooling Around,” in which she’ll show you how to create lusciously layered backgrounds by pushing your mixed-media tools to the max. Take part in a roomful of fun as you experiment with more than 10 techniques! ——-
True, I guess …sometimes it is hard to trust…but what else is left over?
Some texture play in my art journal. I used flexible modeling paste through my Crackle Stencil, let it dry and then applied some Glass Beads here and there.
After the glass beads dried I used Liquitex Spray Paints and sprayed over – sometimes going back in while the paint was still wet and blending some of the colors. I finsihed the spread off with some white ink splatters and the “trust” sticker as well as some writing.
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michelle ward
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great page Nathalie! I love that quote too – sent it as a card to a friend this year at Halloween.
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Sue Clarke
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Love this quote and page.
I once got it on a card for a friend and she had the best laugh as well!
Hope you have a nice Thanksgiving Nat!
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