“…and so…a new adventure begins…”
I am excited for the new year …yes still LOL
I used a magazine image and painted over with my neopastels- I love doing that when I am a bit lazy painting my own image- and the neopastels are just soooo yummie ….
I used different stencils with acrylic paints and gesso to create the background – stippling paint through the stencil and taking paint off through the stencil as well.
Besides acrylic paints and gesso, here are the supplies I used:
For not being a flowery girl, I did an awful lot of flowery stuff lately, huh? LOL.
This spread was inspired by a mural I saw in Birmingham, UK last year- can you spot which one in the post about it?
The background was spray painted over my Kassel stencil, and the flowers are painted with acrylic paints and gouache. For the face I used neopastels.
I like how all the different paint mediums look together and play with them.
I have been working on a big assignment and some personal tasks lately which have me stressed out a bit …so a little art journaling mantra is keeping me sane ;)
some stamping with my RubberMoon stamp sets and I used Neopastels to paint inside the ink transferred figure. I also traced with a pink Neopastel inside the opening of my Manhattan stencil and while I like the outcome, there was a lot of the Neopastel sticking to the stencil which wasn’t easily to get off or transfer to a different spot – so this was probably a one time adventure LOL.
Here are the supplies I used for this spread.
I will try that Lois. My best experience so far is with Murphy’s Oil- but I usually do not remove paint as long as it is acrylic paint. I will give it a try :)Thank you
Do you put something over the neopastels so that they don’t smudge on the opposite page when the journal is closed?
Sue, if the layer of neopastels is not too thick it is not a problem, but in this case where it is very thick I put half a sheet of delipaper in between the pages to keep it from transferring to the other side.
This was another spread that I had started in a class to show some techniques and when I came home I finished it up
I used Derwent Art Bars on top of my Grove Street Pos and Negative Foam Stamps
Simply wet the foam stamps a bit, rub any water soluble wet wax bars/sticks on top of the stamp and then mist the stamp again and stamp. I love the effect.
The lady was sketched with ink and then used some Neo pastels to add some color to her hair and clothing. Love how this came together from a kind of raw weird class sample page :)
Here are some of the supplies I used for this spread.
Have a wonderful day!!!
“She wished she could go back to her younger self and tell her “It’s ok, to be weird, you’ll be fine” ”
This was a demo page from a class and I blocked in some color here and there and stamped with my new Exchange Place ArtFoamies Stamp. I added some stenciling with translucent acrylic paints using my Versailles Stencils – love how this turned out. I added some stamping with my Embroidery stamps to add some more even mark making using different colors of Archival Ink Pads- love those.
I painted the lady with acrylic paints neopastels and used some of the neopastels also here and there on the spread and scratched some writing into it.
I like how the lines of the Exchange Place Stamp and the floral Versailles Stencil work together.
Here are the supplies I used:
Hope you enjoy this page- have a wonderful day!
In this journal spread I wrote “Like in an echo chamber a saddening, frightening and yet empowering #metoo echoed through the universe.”
I drew the left women with ink using a bamboo sketching pen and colored her in with watercolor- the right one is a painted on deli paper which I collaged into the art journal.
I stamped with some of my ArtFoamies stamps and acrylic paint and added some mars with Neopastels and a Charcoal pen.
Here are some of the supplies I used for this spread
It’s a lovely spread and an important matter. Thanks for sharing.
thank you Gunvor! Yes- it is a very important matter-!
“Chase your stars fool, life is short” – I toned down this very bright red, orange and yellow acrylicpaint-ed background with some gesso and added some stenciling in yellow on top using my Batik Stencil.
I stamped with my new Circle Drive ArtFoamie Stamp and black acrylic paint and added some stars with black archival ink using my Star Tag Cling Rubber Stamp.
I adhered a magazine image and painted over it with acrylic paints and Neopastels. I love how soft those Neopastels are and how beautifully they can be blended.
Here is a supply list with most of the materials I used to create this page:
“sometimes the only way to catch your breath is to loose it completely.”
Love the the color combination -this makes me happy. I played with my new Grove Street Pos. + Neg. ArtFoamies and love the texture they created.
I painted the figure with Neopastels and I love how they look together with the background I painted with acrylic paint.
I am totally addicted to the neopastels and I am hoping that the big set will be somehow showing up in December ;) HINT HINT
Here are some of the supplies:
Beautiful and how true is the quote lol ❤️❤️❤️
“How do you get back to being strangers with someone who has seen your soul I ask?”
I was just playing around in my art journal with my new Midtown ArtFoamies Set and some acrylic paint and spray paint. This was fun.
The background was pretty built up with paint that I had scrapped off into my journal during various painting sessions and at first it bothered me a bit that I got all those uneven and flaky areas- but now I like it :) All a matter of adjusting your mind ;)
Here are the supplies I used for this spread
Wishing you an amazing day!!!
I read somewhere that a soak in water with dishwasher “liquid” soap would remove dried on paint from stencils. Maybe it will work with your neopastels too.
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