Cath Sheard Art

Tag: art journaling

  • Wanderlust Weeks 6, 7 & 8

    Playing catchup with posting these. Week 6 was a modified colour wheel with Shay Michelle. I discovered although turquoise and similar shades are my fav accents colours, I have very few collage papers in that colour range. I need to get out by large gelli plate and fix that!

    Week 7 with LaQuisha Hall was exactly the kind of layout I hoped doing Wanderlust would get me back to. I used to do a lot of this type of art journaling and have become more product driven. This page is about me wanting to be a safe space for people, and wanting my libraries to be a safe space for everyone as the world gets harder to negotiate.

    Week 8 with Claudette Hasenjager was a tricky one, I had to push through the colour wheel exercise, and I’m pleased I did. I discovered I’m incapable of working tidily for too long and struggle to add enough white, and overdo the black. I expected to love the Ruby combinations, but they were a bit dark, while the Rouge were a bit dull, but the DWM Raspberry are perfect. The layout, based on the fav colour wheel, is about speaking out for myself and others, speaking up even if worried, and then going aggravation of my vocal cord injury.

  • Week 5 – self portrait

    Week 5 – self portrait

    This week’s Wanderlust25 lesson was taught by Shawn Petite, who I’ve followed for years. The project involved journaling, prepping the page with collage papers and ephemera that have meaning to you, and using washes of colour that relate in some way to what you wrote. The last step was a self portrait. I won’t go into all the details with it being a paid course.

    We started by doing a practice colour wheel. I chose to go slightly off the primary colours, and used DWM Lemon, Lapis and Ruby, with DWM Umber and White, and Liquitex Parchment. It’s not a combination I’d tried on a colour wheel before and I like it.

    People who know me well will understand why “voice” is the word I ended up with to summarise my journaling…

    My initial layers, there’s journaling under the collage.
    My colour wheel, complete with a smear thanks to Sabrina’s paw!
    My completed page.

  • Wanderlust week 4 completed

    This tested my patience a bit, but it was fun too and I’m pleased with the end result. I’ve glued it into my art journal so I can fold it out and add to it if I want. The panorama shot is a bit off and wobbly because I’m not that steady but it gives you the general idea.

  • Working on Wanderlust week 4

    I’m working on Wanderlust week 4, with Kasia Avery. The project is designed to be slow, which is not how I normally work, but I’m determined to try. So far, so good … although I did have trouble with the stitching ripping the hand made paper because the gel medium on the paper wasn’t completely dry. So I used gel medium to add more paper to the back, and tried to keep going – and of course it ripped again. Did I learn to wait? Sort of 😂

    Here’s what I have done so far:

  • Wanderlust week 3

    Week 3 was a watercolour lesson with Nicole Warrington. We painted a postcard and incorporated some of the watercolour trial pieces into a collages layout. I’ve got Kuretake Gambai watercolours, which are a little more opaque than standard watercolours. I have two sets of 24 and enjoy using them but I’m an absolute beginner. This was a fun class, and I’m pleased with the final pages.