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| Umbrella Man is my new Tim Holtz die. I thinking I might be obsessed with him. |
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| Umbrella Man is perfect for the Rain Challenge in A Year in the Life of an Art Journal. I love it when I can combine different ideas into one piece. |
I've been doing challenges and prompts from several different art journal blogs. I combined the Rain Challenge in A Year in the Life of an Art Journal, Prompt 6ix # 2 from Daisy Yellow and the Creative Everyday challenge and the left picture is the result.
His jacket is a copy of a piece of sheet music I found online and the quote I wrote.
The themes I used were dark, lime green, grunge, treasure hunt and acrylic paint. I made his coat extra long so that it look like a man wearing formal wear, is out in the rain, looking for treasure.
The quote is: "Green Rain," the umbrella man sighed with disdain. This is one of the more whimsical pieces that I've done.
The right is a result of playing with distressed in as a background. I used a brush as well as direct to paper. I used a dylusion stencil and white Stampin' Up ink for the checked border and tried my hand at lettering for the words.
Hey Boo, I reallllly like your sheet music piano man!! His pose and that classic newspaper-under-arm is just priceless. The distressed background works really well to pull it all together. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThese are excellent ~ very creative and filled with wonderful colors and energy ~
ReplyDelete(A Creative Harbor) aka ArtMuseDog and Carol ^_^)
Thank you for your kind words. I wanted that die for a long time & I'm having so much fun with him.
ReplyDeleteLove your umbrella man, epecially the first one.
ReplyDeleteThese are both lovely pieces. I especially like the sheet music, it gives a really vintage feel to the first one. Distress stains are one of my favourites, especially on gesso because you can really move them around & mix them to make fabulous jumbles.
ReplyDeleteGreat combination of materials...turned out so well!
ReplyDeleteYour gentlemen, walking in the rain are beautiful! I like them very much, especially the one with the music sheet coat! It is such a cheerful picture and motive!
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