Playing with Twinks

This week I have been working with hot colors--oranges and reds.  First I made a card for my beloved.

Then I did this copy of a picture I found on Pinterest.

My daughter is going to use pen and ink to do a loose outline and stems for the flowers.  I am really happy with the look so far!

Journal Entries for April/May

It has been a while since I uploaded journal images, so I thought I might do that...

This is my most recent addition, called USE ALL THE COLORS!!!  I traced around some chipboard flowers and then painted each one a different colors, then filled in around them with a combination of five different blues and greens.  I sprayed some water all over to blur the edges, then added some glimmer mist.  I finished it on Cinco de Mayo, which seems rather appropriate for some reason.

This was one of my monochromatic studies, although I sort of ruined the them with the green leaves and yellow/orange background.  I did use several hues of purple...

Be Green used all the greens I had when I created it.  There are additions of plastic flowers and tiny beads glued to the B and the two capital E's.  It was fun...

I focused on the hot reds and oranges here, but since I completed it, I have added several more of both those colors to my palette.

Another New Direction?

The studio has been gathering dust for the past several weeks.  I have all but abandoned my paper crafts and the little bit of art I have done is focused on my art journal and learning to use Luminarte's Twinkling H2O's.

This is not finished yet, but it was my first attempt at anything like it. I added some Smooch and Glimmer mists over the whole thing as well as Stickles glitter to the center markings, but I think I need to add some bold black lines around the outside of each element. Then maybe I can go back and add more depth to the petals. 

 Today I signed up for another class, this one using Silks acrylic paints.  I can't really say I did the other class much justice, although I have had a ball playing with the product and I think I needed to enroll in the class to prompt me to purchase it. I am hoping to get a bit more involved with the instructions of this new class, but even if I don't I am not too concerned.

I liked how the lines came out on the top section.  The flowers on the left are done with my template and some Silks acrylic glaze.  I applied the lemongrass wash all over the paper, then used the glaze and template.  Once it dried, I added other color to that section which was resisted by the acrylic. I may need to invest in more templates!

This used the template, but not the silks.  I just used other colors of twinks to make the shapes stand out.  I think this page needed much more done to it, but I also wanted to leave some space for writing. Perhaps I will stop worrying about the text and just focus on the "art" for a while.

The things I love about the "twinks" are all present in the Silks, but they have the added benefit of a wide variety of surfaces to which they might be applied--unlike the twinks which unfortunately flake off of anything other than paper.  I know this because I have tried. :)

My Art Journal Begins

I have been really enjoying my Twinkling H2O paints.  The journal was required for a class I signed up for and never did anything with, but I have had great fun playing with the paints.  The photos are actually in reverse order of their position in the book, but you can see I have been having fun!

This page is still in the works.  I used my new birds on a wire punch and a stencil.  The rest of it was done with a wash brush.

I added an embossed bicycle and some new star shaped confetti on the page on the left and experimented with a few other ideas on the right side.

Pages 2 and 3 in the journal including directions for my planned "stained" glass with alcohol inks.

The journal is called "Braless Art" with the idea that it will not be restricting or uncomfortable. I have given myself permission to just play in this book, and that means sometimes pages may not turn out all that great, but I liked the idea, and it was my first time to paint on paper with my paints. 

I liked this fortune cookie note, so I put it on page one.