Art Journal Page: Layers, layers, layers

Posted on 25th October 2019 by perfectly4med

Next month’s art journal session is all about layers. There will be an unofficial ‘challenge’ to see who has the most layers on their page by the time the session finishes. I think my example had upwards of 20 by the time I had finished. The layers include acrylic paints which were stamped, stencilled and monoprinted using textured wallpapers. Over that were stamped archival inks before the title was stamped and matted onto the page.

It’s a bit of a melange, but I guess that’s the point of the exercise. I wondered after if keeping to a complementary colour palette may have worked as well – perhaps something to play with during the session next month. Spaces are available if you’d like to get inky and paint-splattered!

Used in this layout

Various acrylic paints
Ranger Archival Inks – various colours
Darkroom Door stamps
- Watery Washes [DDRS162]
- Alphabet Medley [DDRS026]
Stampendous/Nathalie Kalbach stamps: Marks [NKCRS06]
That’s Crafty stencils – various
Hero Arts mounted stamp – Italian Poetry Background [S1832]

Art Journal Pages: Stamping With Acrylics

Posted on 14th June 2016 by perfectly4med

More sneak peeks of pages to be featured on my Hochanda shows on Thursday at 11am & 3pm. Don’t forget to tune in to, or catch up with, the shows which will be introducing art journals and art journaling.

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Art Journal Pages: Testing Potential Journals

Posted on 26th May 2016 by perfectly4med

One side effect of being the probably the first art journaling demonstrator on a UK craft TV channel is that I need to help source journals suitable for sale during the shows. This lunchtime I had unexpected happy post containing four journals for me to test. The timing’s a bit awkward – first thing this morning a delivery arrived with all the products I have to make samples with for my first show a week tomorrow… So for pure expediency, I set up a journal test bench this evening and worked my way down the three journals with the same page layout. The fourth? That one is A3 in size, and far too big to do anything in the timescale!

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Art Journal Page: What I see in the mirror [Wanderlust Prompt #5]

Posted on 10th May 2016 by perfectly4med

I decided yesterday that I would catch up with some of the Wanderlust 2016 class activities, and watched Birgit Koopsen’s class as she demonstrated her signature style. This is my response to the fifth journal prompt from the beginning of March (‘what I see in the mirror’) using her techniques, albeit in a slightly different order! And it’s probably more of a reminder of what I should be seeing in the mirror rather than what I do… Anyhow, I wanted the background to show through the white layer (given I’d spent so long working on it!), so used I used thinned gesso for its translucency. I think the colours certainly zing against the white mask.