I am a very beginner in the world of art and want to record my creative journey hence the idea of sharing my art with people all over the world. I am very open to discussion and would love to share some ideas and techniques with you.
I have no style at the moment, all I know is I want to create, so I created a blog.
So here are my recent art journal pages:
Materials and techniques used:
- I sprayed the page with Dylusions inks and glued down some torn book pages and music notes which were lightened up a bit with a layer of watered gesso and then I used alcohol inks to add more interest and push them more to the background.
- I used variety of different stencils and applied the images using black, white and red acrylic paints. I outlined the images with white gel pen. To change the white into shades of orange I used brush markers.
- A little bit of black & white washi tape was added to add interest.
- When the background was ready I started creating the focal point which was the globe. I had a very old atlas book from 60's which I bought in second hand shop and found a map that was suitable for my page. All I needed was a frame for my globe, so I hand drew it on a printer paper, painted it with brown acrylic paint, fussy cut it and glued it down, I then glued down the map. I added highlights to the frame and used charcoal to darken the edges of the map.
- Then I added the quote - black stickers wich I outlined with white gel pen.
- The last thing I did was to frame my page. I drew the lined with black sharpie pen, coloured it and outlined it with white gel pen to make it stand out.
Materials and techniques used:
- I started off with brown acrylic paint to make a very simple background, I then stamped script stamp with stazone brown ink. I added white circles with white acrylic paint using different bottles lids to add more interest to the boring background.
- I then added alcohol inks drippage and noticed how beautifully it reacted when it met the acrylic paint circles.
- Next step was to glue down the collage piece I found in a magazine. I added some shadows with charcoal and brush marker.
- When the focal point was down I printed the quote and glued it down, also added shadows around each section with charcoal.
- I then used some stencils; the white splatters where created with white gel pen, the yellow light rays with modelling paste which was mixed with some yellow acrylic paint.
- The last was to darken the edges with charcoal.
Materials and techniques used:
- Acrylic red and orange paints were used to create the background. I then used variety of diffenert stamps to make the background more interesting.
- Some torn pages were glued down to the sides, outlined with charcoal.
- I then used thick layer of white acrylic paint with some stencils, numbers were then coloured with brush markers, and outlined with black sharpie marker.
- One of my favourite techniques is the drippage with alcohol inks and had to play with them here too.
- I then added black acrylic paint over the gear stencil., gears were outlined with white gel pen.
- For the focal point I decided to use ready image which I downloaded from internet, I fussy cut it, coloured with pencils and glued it down. Unfortunately all the colours got lost when I covered the whole image with gold wink of stella marker but I still like it.
- For the quote I used gold stickers and outlined with black fine tip marker.
- Lastly I darkened the edges with a light layer of charcoal.
