Acrylic paint, pencil, Sakura gel pen, Stencil Girl stencils, Tom Holtz stencil, fine black pen. Once again I have scribbled down my thoughts, and SHINE reflects the lovely sunny day I have enjoyed.
Tag: art journaling
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Tim Holtz Distress Paints, Stencil Girl stencils, various pens, Sakura white gel pen. It’s interesting that two days in a row I have treated it like a mini art journal and scrawled down all the things that are in my head – making sure they can’t be read but feeling good for getting them down on paper. It’ll be interesting to see if that continues or whether it’s just because there is a lot happening just now.
I’m already thinking that it would be amazing to show these as a single artwork at the end of the year; they’ll be really disparate but tied together by size, and possible text.
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Saying it
Some days the best place to say things is in my art journal, so today was another ink, stencil, Gelli printed tissue kind of day. I have things on my mind…
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New stencils – oh my!
I was fortunate to be able to purchase some new Michelle Ward stencils recently. I had been thinking about the Frond Collection ever since Michele released them, and I was finally able to get them. And boy, they were worth the wait … I love them. I’ve just been playing round with them using gesso, inks, fluid acrylics, and working in three different journals to see what happens on the various surfaces. Here’s some of what I’ve done so far.
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Art soothes the soul
Things are not easy at the moment; Tony has an appointment with the vascular surgeon today, it’s almost time to inter Mum’s ashes etc. 12 plus hours with my art supplies yesterday was very soothing. Here’s just one of the pages I completed in my art journal.














