Is My Muse Returning?

Left:  My muse my have returned.  I finished my page I post yesterday.  I added some shading around the birds and flowers using my blue Stabilo All pencil. It is water soluble so it makes it easy to pull out the color with a water brush.  My final touch was another Carolyn Dube idea. She often journals with a white pen using a giant flowing style.  I am really happy how it turned out.  I used a white Sharpie Poster Marker. I had to use it last because it is not water proof.  

Right:  I had leftover paint from the left page so I added it and some left over pieces of the gelli print to the page on the right. I cut ovals and triangles freehand and glued them randomly to a pre-gessoed page. I added the blue paint and then stenciled with homemade stencils & gesso on top of all that. I had no plan, I was just playing around. After it sat over night I decided to add the flowers as a focal point.  I like how pieces of the background peak through the petals. It order to make the flowers pop, I painted the blue around the flowers in a style I'd seen on a Dina Wakley video.  The background was a little boring so I added numbers and letters from my Crafter's Workshop Eye Chart stencil.  When all of that was dry, I outlined my flowers with a Signo Broad Black Gel Pen. 

Link to:  Carolyn Dube, MOO-MANIA number challenge, Art Journal Everyday

Layers Peeking Through

I recently purchased the Dina Wakley class, Paint it Out from Interweave.  This is a great class. I really enjoyed her step by step process. 

Dina is great fun as a teacher. I love that she doesn't take things too seriously.  It is so cool when she says, "It's just paper. We can buy more paper."  I also love it that she ends up with paint on her hands and arm.  

This is my first try at layering the way she suggested.  I realized after the fact that I left out two layers.  Oh well, I'll give those a shot later. 

I really like how the yellow, green and pink peek through in different places. I loved using the exaggerated writing technique she used. It was very freeing to write with giant loopy letters and not care if anyone could read it. 

It's like there are all kind of things hiding on my pages just waiting to be found!

The supplies I used are: three colors of acrylic paint plus white, baby wipes, a Lori homemade oval stencil, a Delta rectangles stencil and white and navy Stabilo All pencils.  I also used a piece of plastic window screening as a stencil to make the tiny squares.  

Link to: Dina Wakley, Paint Party Friday, Mixed Media Monthly Challenge, Rubber Dance Monthly Challenge