A reminder to myself...

 

I’ve had this fine, floaty lady in my stencil stash for a while & finally got to give her an outing. 

I collaged lots of papers & washi tape for the first layer, then stamped & daubed acrylic paint. Over the top, I scraped several colours of Izink Ice, a translucent gel.

I scratched into the top layer of Ice while it was still wet. It gives great texture to your work, & the colours glow like an Instagram filter! 

One dry, I stencilled my lady a few times using a Stabilo All Pencil. I went over the outline using a Dina Wakley Scribble stick, which I wet a little to thicken the line.

I finished off scribbling some highlights with a white gel pen & collating some words from a Dina Wakley tissue collection. 

I love the dark & grungy feel, it’s so rich & intense!

ConcerTINa class by Seth Apter

 

One of the good things about Lockdown has been the increase in online workshops by some of my favourite artists. This week I took a class by Seth Apter. I was lucky enough to take one in person with him last year. He is a great teacher & a lovely, uplifting person.  I was booked on another workshop with him when he came to the UK in May - of course that had to be cancelled. But Seth has been busy putting together a series of great, stand alone, online classes to fill the void. 

This latest class saw us take a small tin & alter it with distress & ageing techniques.

I had this one in my stash, left over from the great “suspending things in resin” craze of the early noughties - the best before date was December ‘07 😀. Never throw anything away!

After we’d altered the tin we set about making an accordion folded mini book to stow inside it.

It was a lovely class & great to have it there to refer back to. You can still buy it on Seth’s website to watch & do at any time.

Soul Mantras online class by StencilGirl

 

I took StencilGirl’s great online class ‘Soul Mantras’ this weekend. It was a lovely, relaxed guide through creating layered, collaged art, using parts that you create yourself with as much (or as little!) meaning as you want to give them.

I used vintage book pages, painted papers that I made using simple repeated patterns in black and white paint & some gelli prints. Once stuck in place, I painted and stencilled over them. There is layer upon layer on those pages!

The final layers are some Izink Ice in Black & ‘Baby Poo’, as Seth Apter calls it, and a set of his Paperartsy stamps (ESA13) over stamped randomly.