Another journal page

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and enjoying spring if you are in the UK and wherever you are that you are peaceful and happy. Today I have another journal page for you, so sit back and relax while I take you through my process. It’s very similar to my last post if you missed it you can find here.

Lots of collage papers knocked back with Fresco chalk acrylic paint from Paper Artsy.

Elements on the background include Distress Crayons, Aqua Flow Pens for the stamping which is Vintage Script from Rubber Dance.

The gold in the corners is Corners no1 from ArtZone And the girl is painted with Media Fluids from DecoArt.

Using Acrylic ink in Burnt Umber and my dip pen I outlined the leaves from the stencil. More butterflies from the Crafter’s Companion papers and then to finish a die cut and textured butterfly from Tim Holtz.

A last look at the whole page.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you all soon.

Hugsxx 

It’s been a while but I’m back

Hello everyone, I’ve been missing for a while from blog land due to a recent family bereavement. I’m sure you can imagine the impact of this on our family and will forgive my absence. It’s taken a while for me to get back into creating but I’m getting there.

So here is a journal page I created in my all new studio (you may remember I’ve just moved) which I’m learning to love. It’s still not completely sorted as I keep moving things around, which I guess I will do until I have everything where it feels right for it to be. I do love the afternoon sun though that floods in the big window and onto my desk. Yes my desk has moved, but it now feels right.

Here it is

So I started with lots of collage papers randomly stuck on the page with Modge Podge

I then used acrylic paint to knock back the paper and provide a tooth for the Distress Crayon and Scribble Sticks I used to add colour and visual texture

While in Yorkshire recently in a garden centre I picked up a pad of designer paper 

from Crafter’s Companion which had these lovely butterflies. So I cut them out and stuck them on as my focal point.

For more interest I added washi tape from Tim Holtz - Ranger and the sentiment is stickers from Marta Łapkowska- 13@rts

A close up

A simple journal page with lots of visual texture, I hope you like it

Hugsxx 

Line and wash flowers

Hello everyone, again with something just for myself. This is a watercolour painting inspired by Joanne Boom Thomas, I love her work with watercolour and Brushos and find myself watching her tutorials more and more. I’ll include a link at the bottom of the page. 

I’m afraid the light isn’t good and so the colours aren’t as bright as in real life. Working full time it dark by the time I get to play, but I hope it gives you an idea of what it looks like. The size is 18” x 30 so big for me.

I first sprinkled my Brushos in Ultramarine Emerald Green, while spritzing I covered my sketch to protect it from the colour. I then added clean water and worked wet in wet.

Love how the camera captured the water on the page. 

I laid down the pink first and once dry the blue. 

Once dry, I used blue acrylic ink and my dip pen, (yah I found one that works for me and I love it)and added some details, before the ink dried with a small brush and water I pulled the ink to fill in the negative space.

To finish and lighten it a little I added white gold highlights, unfortunately the artificial lights makes it look like blobs of white where as it’s quite subtle really

You can see how the colour is more yellow in the finished pics than in the start 

Hope you like it

Hugs Xxx

Link to Joanne