I'm playing along with another talented group of artists in a blog hop featuring
StencilGirl designs by Kae Pea, and
Rubbermoon Stamps (You might also want to check out
Rubbermoon Arts blog.).
This was a fun page to work on because I had no clear direction I wanted to go...but I knew the elements I wanted to add.
I used the
GE2520 stamp of four different full moon faces, and everyone knows the moon is made of cheese, so I started with an old dictionary page, some yellow paint and this
'bubbles' stencil designed by Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch. I applied the darker yellow paint, let that dry, then put a thin layer of the light yellow over it. While that was still wet, I put on the stencil and used a baby wipe to remove much of the lighter yellow inside the stencil. That left the wonderful 'Swiss cheese' effect you see. I stamped the stamp image with black StazOn ink and quickly added black embossing powder before it could dry.
I love the texture and shine that this gave the stamped image! I tore these moon faces out, leaving a bit of the yellow text paper around the outside.
On the remaining scraps of the painted dictionary page, I used
Kae Pea's 'peacock feather' stencil and various blue and green paints to create some feathers for collaging.
With all of the various papers ready and a page that already had some overspray and stencil blotting on it, it was time to start collaging the background.
Additional paint was added, keeping to the blues, turquoises and greens that remind me of peacocks. As you can see, I continued using the peacock feather stencil, more for texture at this point.
That step done and dry, I pulled out the 'feature' elements (those moon faces, the word "Art" I had made months ago and never used, and some additional 'peacock feathers'). Using my black and white Liquitex paint pens, a finer black Pitt pen, and a white Signo, the doodling began. Here are some close up images:
And the finished piece:
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StencilGirl Talk
A little while ago I watched a YouTube video done by my friend Carolyn Dube, in which she used pan pastels and stencils to create a journal page. It looked like a lot of fun, and I needed a quick 'art play' so I gave it a try. I used my Stencilgirl peacock feather stencil, designed by Kae Pea along with colours that you'd expect to see in real peacock feathers. I just love those colours!
I then grabbed the stencil and a permanent black pen and I traced the stencil a few times, filling it in with little cross hatch marks.
