Rae's Art Marks Challenge Set 4

Hi! 

I'm still plugging away with Rae's challenge. I just finished Day16, so here I am blogging about the last four pages in my mini handmade journal. Having such fun with it, I don't mind how behind I am, and that everyone is on part two of the challenge already. LOL!

I have provided some in-process photos for some of these layouts. Here goes.

Day 13 Prompt: PATTERN

Before:

 I started with a gelliprinted background and covered most of it up with teal paint and purple and pink paint. I regret this, as I really loved the prints! 

I wanted to create a pattern with stenciled flowers, but it just wasn't doing it for me, so I covered the poor flowers up. I used the flower from the 9x12 stencil of the September 2016 club stencil from StencilGirl.

I hope to try this again with slightly different method and process. This is part of why I love doing challenges like this. I learn so much. Especially great working in an art journal instead of canvas. If you don't like the results, it's perfectly easy to just cover it up and start again. No pressure.

At this step, I was still trying to use the flower-look, adding smudges of blue paint.

Ended up with what I know well: handpainted roses.

Day 14/30 Prompt: DASHED

Before pic below:

I loved the print I had going before I even started on the prompt, so I left it mostly as is, except the few black dashes here and there. Loving the little page on the right.

I added a fun little Art Pops by Roben-Marie, which now makes the page tabbed. LOVING it. I downloaded them and printed them at a local print shop, but you can actually buy these cute artsy stickers. I am taking a class by RM, called Pop-Up Fringe Journal, and included in the class is the Urban Grunge collection as digital downloads.

Day 15/30 Prompt: LOOSE

For this prompt, I now had a little surface to work on, and framed in the back with the previous prompt finished on the left, and a blank page on the right.

I simply painted some loose flowers in white and added leaves and dots with brush, brayer and paint pens.

Day 16/30 Prompt: ASSORTED

Another little page, and loving it! :)

Before:

Painted the whole thing black. And this must be the middle of my book, as can you see my aubergine yarn, which binds my book? :)

Here I made little ogee patterns with a paintbrush, added little dots with paint pens and extra lines with pencil and a fine-tipped paint pen, ending it with some paint splatters. 

How I decided to do ogee patterns: I was oogling an ogee patterned LulaRoe Irma shirt on one of the Facebook groups I'm in. Ended up not buying it, as she doesn't sell to Canadians. :( Bummer. :(

And here's a closer-up:

And there are the last four pages I've done for this challenge. The rest will need to wait until I'm back from our Mexico vacation! Whoop!!! :)

Thanks for visiting me here! Would love to hear from you. Comments below welcomed! 

♥♥♥  Anna  ♥♥♥

Art Marks 30 Day Challenge Prompts 9-12

Hi, all! I'm back after a break. I'm in the midst of a very consuming project that takes up almost all of my spare time, so I haven't been able to work on this project much. My sister and I are diy-ing the decor for a local fundraiser banquet. We're very excited to see how it will turn out. I might even share some pics. We'll see. It involves paper maché. :)

Today I just wanted to show you some process pics and close-ups of my takes on Rae's Art Marks 30 Day Challenge. I'm behind, as it ended mid February, but I want to continue on and finish all 30 prompts. She's also starting Part 2, which I hope to do as well.

(To see the first and second set go HERE and HERE.)

So here is the third set, Prompts 9-12.

Prompt 9/30: Chevron

I started by smudging on blues, pinks and yellows. Then I splattered some paint, added the chevron with pencil, pen, paint. Finished with a black Stabilo All pencil.

I had a hard time making ''chevron'' shaped marks with a paint brush. I tried, and I didn't like the look, so I cut out a stencil and pencilled in the edges, then I brushed on the white paint.

Lastly I drew in little circles with black pen where the paint splattered. Added cross-hatches to the chevron shapes.

I'm really enjoying how each layout looks different when the next page is done, as they are all uneven pages. I am definitely crushing on random-sized journal pages! Heck, I could even cut down the pages of purchased journals to get this look! Yes! (For the next challenge, I think I'll make a smaller book.)

Prompt 10/30: Criss Cross

This spread was made up of an old gelliprint again on the left side, and grunged up graph paper on right.

I see Carolyn Dube's Circles Circles stencil and Rae Missigman's Puddles stencil in the print on left.

Smoosh yellow paint in circles in random places, careful to line them up. Add in black middles, let dry, then draw in criss cross marks with purple gel pen.

Add turquoise touches with paint.

Scribble around circles and dots in middle of criss cross marks with turquoise gel pen.

Add in light purple paint to backgrounds in areas.

Draw the grid back in with purple gel pen.

11/30 Prompt: Lines

 This one was quick. Make splotches of colour across the whole page with paint.

Draw circles with pencil.

Colour circles with purple Inktense pencils, let dry, and add in more inktense to bring up the colour.

Add in aqua paint, let dry, then add darker turquoise dots over the aqua. 

Scribble around circle with pink gel pen. Loving the ease of gel pens over acrylic lately!

Add in turquoise lines with a paint pen.

12/30 Prompt: Puddled

I'm trying not to use too many stencils with this project, but just could not resist it for this layout. This beauty of a stencil by Maria McGuire was calling my name. Stenciled with purple paint. It does have a rippling look, just like a puddle, right? :)

Finger paint in yellow circles, adding other areas of yellow as well.

Above the circular stencil lower right, I saw the old gelliprint design. Again, it was made with the Circles Circles stencil I mentioned earlier.

Highlighted the circle shapes with pencil and Inktense pencil.

Love how the underpaper is often the starting point of my design!

I took a pic of the layout, then looked at the picture on my phone. On upper left, I spied ''eyes", so I got up the gumption to draw a face, looking at a reference photo on my happy faces Pinterest board.

Decided to partially hide the face behind the yellow ''puddles'', so I erased the lip area. Didn't like how the shape of the lips looked anyway.

When I took this photo, I liked how the face looked, with just in pencil, but darker would look nice, so I went ahead and used black india ink and pen nib. I had a hard time getting the lines thin enough. I need finer nibs!

Part of the ''puddling'' prompt to me was to puddle paint on the surface, so I wasn't very concerned how the background was covered with colour.

Here in middle left area, I was crushing on the subtle colourway, so I stuck with that theme, adding some dots with a like-coloured paint marker. Sublime, methinks.

 I interrupt my fascinating programming with a pic of my LulaRoe leggings. People!! I searched a LOOOONG time for these. They match my art, don't you think? :))))

Sooooooo comfortable!!!!

(I was trying to draw the flower design, but not need to practice more, obviously. )

I added shadowing to the middle of the rippling puddle with Inktense and white dots.

I spied the wordd ORIGINAL on a Mini Wheats cereal box, so I cut that out to include on my page.

To break up the large purple area, I stenciled in some texture with the May 2015 StencilClub stencil.

And I'm done! Have I told you lately how much fun blogging is? Thanks for coming for a visit, I appreciate it! :)

♥♥♥  Anna  ♥♥♥