So I bought some manilla tags the other day.
Some = 1,000. Yes, really. They were a great deal, I'd been wanting some for a long time, and I have Christmas money burning a hole in my pocket. So what the heck!
Back in late fall, I took advantage of a special Andrea Sher (of Superhero Journal) offered for her Mondo Beyondo e-course. I'd been eyeing it for at least a year, so when it went on "sale" I just had to sign up. For one of the exercises, I decided to put the new tags to use.
First thing I did was line them up since I figured I'd create a bunch at one time. I used Golden fluid acrylic paint, some cosmetic sponges, a few 12" x 12" stencils and went to town.
I used the sponges to apply the paint through the stencils. They work great and I can pick them up cheap at Dollar General. I also used them to distress the edges.
Quick and fun. Gotta love it.
Here are the two main stencils I used.
"Art Is" by Crafter's Workshop
Random Dots by Donna Downey
Paint colors used:
Golden Fluid Acrylic in Nickel Azo Gold, Phthalo Turquoise, Permanent Violet Dark, and Quinacridone Red.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Art Journal - Reverberate
I've decided to dedicate more time to my art journal. Have fun, explore ideas, mediums, products, techniques. So yesterday I had the start of an idea and went from there. I knew I wanted to punch circles out of various things and stitch them to paper. That's all I knew. The rest I just made up as I went along.
I pulled a page out of my "for art purposes" copy of Jane Eyre as my base, grabbed my stash of various paper pieces and rifled through them. I found more book paper, ledger paper, a map, a receipt, a ticket, a tea bag wrapper (yes, I saved a tea bag-it was still attached to the wrapper), and a wine label. I have a number of wine labels I've soaked off bottles intending to put them in a wine journal for future reference but never got around to it. I like the idea of using them in my art journal even better.
I used various stencils, homemade "spray paint", Donna Downey's hollyhock stamp, acrylic paint, various tubes to get the red circles, masking tape, a white Sharpie paint pen, black pen and drywall tape.
OH! And I FINALLY set up my sewing machine in my art room and added stitching. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time and finally did. Yea, me!
I thought the circles looked like the were pulsing or echoing, and the word "reverberate" came to mind. Today, I went ahead and finished it up buy putting the page in my journal. I had a incredibly icky page that I covered up with more paint, and added the page. I was looking for my glue but saw the drywall tape and thought it might work, and I love it! I then added more stitching, zig zagging the book page directly into my journal.
I love the colors, repetition of the circles and the stitching. Very happy with this page!
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Actual email transcript between Dwight and me
Me:
I just looked up and saw that I typed this instead of "telephone" on a letterhead ...
Tekeogibe
Can I go home now?
D:
You are amazing, are you sure that's not a real thing?
Me:
It SHOULD be. I'm going to make a shirt with that on it. And a drawing of whatever I decide a "tekeogibe" is.
D:
It sounds high tech.
Me:
Wait! Maybe that's "telephone" in Romulan. Or Vulcan. Or some other equally nerdy language. Sorry, "language".
D:
It sounds like something Miracle Max would say.
Me:
He distinctly said, "To blaaave" ...
D:
You need to start answering our home phone, “Tekeogibe Industries”
I just looked up and saw that I typed this instead of "telephone" on a letterhead ...
Tekeogibe
Can I go home now?
D:
You are amazing, are you sure that's not a real thing?
Me:
It SHOULD be. I'm going to make a shirt with that on it. And a drawing of whatever I decide a "tekeogibe" is.
D:
It sounds high tech.
Me:
Wait! Maybe that's "telephone" in Romulan. Or Vulcan. Or some other equally nerdy language. Sorry, "language".
D:
It sounds like something Miracle Max would say.
Me:
He distinctly said, "To blaaave" ...
D:
You need to start answering our home phone, “Tekeogibe Industries”
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