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Wednesday Wonder – Mini Art Journal Technique with Denise Alloca

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In today’s Wednesday Wonder, I’d like to introduce you to Denise Alloca from My Art Adventures. Since I seem to love all things small, I loved her featured video on Donna Downey’s Artist Gang this week. She created a little art journal and shows how she made it from one sheet of paper, and the cover from an empty cereal box. This is a fantastic way to create the backgrounds for a journal, and then have it ready for anything else you’d like to do to complete each page. This basic technique idea will allow you to use supplies you already have on-hand! I have posted two of Denise’s videos below. Enjoy!

If you’re ready for spring, as so many of us are, you’ll love this next video, too. See how she uses pieces of cardboard for some of her mark making, especially the petals of the flowers.

You can see Denise’s entire post with closeups of these little canvases on her blog.

You are welcome to share photos of your own Artful Adventures in our Facebook Group!

Cheers to YOUR Artful Adventures!

KS

Wednesday Wonder – Winter Silhouette Painting

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This video shows a fun method to create a winter painting as a gift or for your own home! Stephen Lursen has been doing some work with Donna Downey, and he generously shares this winter silhouette painting! I hope you enjoy it.

For those of you with an electronic cutting machine, you are a step ahead! Cutting a stencil to use would be a breeze!

 

The Close to My Heart Artbooking Cricut cartridge has this reindeer image which would make a great stencil for the holidays. Otherwise, just search for an image you can cut with your machine!

Artbooking Reindeer

Happy Holidays!
KS

June Art Journal Calendar

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Artful Adventures June Art Journal Calendar

June Art Journal Calendar

Here is another month in our series on art journal calendars.  This idea for June is made in a 9″x12″ art journal. This particular journal has tear-out pages, so it can be taken out and added to the rest of pages that have been done this year. Previous pages this year have been made on 12″x12″ card stock, and the months have either been on a single or double page layout.

Here’s the process for this month’s pages:

  • Background misted with color at the top and bottom of the page. The top is someway blue and the bottom somewhat green.
  • The June title was just hand written and embellished with a little dot and line work.
Handwritten June Title

Handwritten June Title

  • I made a stencil of a watering can using my Cricut, and used a yellow PanPastel to create the watering cans, covering the entire shape.
  • When finished with the PanPastels, I went outside and sprayed a workable fixative over all of it, so I could continue to work over the Pan Pastels.
  • After realizing it would have been better to have the handles open to see the background, I went in and colored the handles and the open tops with black marker.
  • Now, it was way too dark, and so a bit of paint was mixed to coordinate with the background, and painted into the handle openings.
  • Two different green markers were used to create wispy grass along the bottom.
  • Three colors of stamps were use to create the flowers. Some being stamped two or three times to get different levels of colors.
Wispy Grass and Stamped Flowers

Wispy Grass and Stamped Flowers

  • Next, a bit of paint was mixed into the water color, and the open tops of the watering cans were filled in, and the water drops painted.
  • Finally, Glossy Accents was used over the water drops and the top openings of the water cans.
Glossy Accents added to water in cans and water drops.

Glossy Accents added to water in cans and water drops.

  • Last, but not least, numbers for the days of the month were written onto the watering can spouts.

It is kind of hard to see, but the misting on the bottom also has some sparkle in it! I love sparkle and shine!  What are things you like in your projects?