Today at Crafty Cardmakers the lovely Angela is hosting our Explosion of Colour challenge.
My ‘explosion’ is in my Art Journal. I started with a page that I had mopped up some blue colour with from a gel print. And then I just added random colours to the page. In the middle it looked a little muddy as I had gone a step too far and not wanting to just abandon it I decided to stencil the face into the middle. I then gessoed out the face area and all her features until it was back to a reasonably blank area and re-stencilled in the features. The Stencil is from Jane Davenport from her Jane Girls series from Artist Cellar. I coloured her face with three portrait colours from IndigoBlu’s acrylic paint range, Porcelain, Fair and Mid Beige. Her cheeks, lips and eyes were all coloured with Jane’s Lip and Pastel Palettes Tins.
The purple diecuts are also from Jane’s range, Artomology, You Are Unique, dies, and I coloured the insides of these with Sakura Koi pens.
Her hair is a selection of Heartfelt Creations Wildwood Blossoms stamps and dies, which I stamped onto some Distress Oxide blended cards. Their centres are from a range called Nail Art which I got in Poundland for a quid! Bargain, when you think what micro beads and prills cost!
All the coloured bits around the edge are also from Jane’s range of stamps, Flower Girls. I used just the hairstyles of two of the girls to add the interest at the edges and coloured them with Sakura Koi pens.
As you can see in the closer pic below, drawing is not my strong suit. The eyes don’t look right and I can’t quite put my finger on why, but as I couldn’t correct it even if I did know I guess that’s what makes her unique!!
Finally I added some Midas Touch to the eye shadows and lips, and some white highlights to the eyes and lips. I did splatter midas touch across the piece, before I did the stencilling in the middle, but sadly the camera doesn’t seem to pick this up without extreme difficulty!
I am entering her into:-
A Inky Mess – #25 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Altered Eclectics – Oct: Anything Mixed Media Goes
Back to Basics – #14 Stencils or Masks
Catch The Bug – Anything But A Card
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge – #43 Anything Goes with colouring
Create A Smile – Create your Own Background
Creativ Fusion Arts & Crafts – #5 Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #92 Anything Goes
Love to Create – #13 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Not Just Cards – Oct: Anything Goes
Polkadoodles – #43 Anything Goes
Rhedd’s Creative Spirit – Oct: Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge – #10 Oct: Anything Goes
The Crafters Cafe – #206 Feminine
Worldwide Open Design Team Chall – #10 Oct: Anything Goes
This is so beautifully done. Nice work. (there seems to be something wrong with your link too - had trouble getting to this page)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing with us here today at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
Annette DT Registered Owners/Admin for World Wide Open Design Team Challenge
Thanks for your lovely comment Annette. I just tested the link from your blog and it worked perfectly for me! Most strange.... but thank you for persevering if you were having problems getting here. xx
DeleteBeautiful card Lin, I think she looks quite marvellous.
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Glenda
Thank you for entering Create a smile challenge , unfortunately you haven't used any Create a smile product and therefore you can't be considered for the prize. There's still time to make a card that follows the rules, we really hope you enter again!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful page. I love the colours and fabulous details. Thank you for playing along at Polkadoodles Crafting https://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/, good luck and I hope you will join us again.
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Gina xx
Great journal page Lin and a very pretty lady. Happy creative week, Angela xXx
ReplyDeleteA fabulous journal page, Love it. Thank you for joining us over at Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge. Good luck!
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Suzi DT
What a lovely journal page..love how you have used mop up scraps for the background..looks really good.
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Stunning, amazing colouring and design. Great artwork. Thanks for sharing with us at Back to Basics and Beyond. Caz. DT
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful crown of flowers. x
ReplyDeletewhat a lovely page. The colours are so pretty! Thank you for entering your project at Rhedd’s Creative Spirit. Sammy-x
ReplyDeleteWhat a FANTASTIC journal page you have made that fits in well with the Colour Crazy Challenge this week. I love how you explained how you'd worked from the start to the finish including rectifying the muddy area. Thank you for entering and best wishes in the draw. Kym (Colour Crazy Challenge Design Team Member).
ReplyDeleteYour journal page is just gorgeous and love how you've used flowers for her hair, very creative. Thank you for sharing your beautiful make with us over at Polkadoodles Crafting and hope you will join us again.
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Ann-Marie (DT)
Hi Lin, a pretty journal page, love the pretty flowers in her hair. Thank you for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends... good luck in the prize draw... Megan DT LPoCF
ReplyDeleteJust stunning!! Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
ReplyDeleteVicki DT for http://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com.au/
Lovely project!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Corrosive Challenge blog.
Ana Isabel DT Coordinator.