Dreaming

The instruction from the Three Muses this week is to use black and white. We are allowed to use other colours as well, as long as black and white feature, so I added some blues and greys, and a touch of yellow, to my piece.

Credits: R McMeen's Ismene kit @ SBG

Recycled journal pages

I have been following Pam Carriker's workshop on the Strathmore Online Workshop site. The prinicple is that you create a journal page using copies of previous journal work. I started off by using pages I  had created for the GPP Street Team. I cut out three main shapes, tore a matching background into strips and adhered them all to my empty page in pleasing arrangement.

 

Once this was dry, I added some journalling in the negative spaces. I highighted the edges of my three main pieces using a charcoal pencil and added further colour using oil pastels. I then went over the whole page with a wash of gesso, to unify the elements.

 

To finish the page, I used acrylic paint and some sequin waste to add extra interest to the background, and added some painted squares. I went over some of the details on the main elements with black pen and added some shadows to some of the features in the background. I added a sentiment using a Tim Holtz stamp and then added further details and journalling with a white gel pen.

Vintage

This is a digital collage, created in a jazzed up vintage style for this week's challenge at Take a Word.

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Credits: elements from Thankful Heart kit by Sherrie JD & T Baxter @ SBG; overlay by V Lim

Home sweet home

Here's my postcard for this week's Sunday Postcard Art.

Credits: R MCMeen's Shrooms @ SBG, & overlay by V Lim

ACF 102

Art Creations Friday provided us with two images to include in our work this week - a picture of a woman with a parasol and a textured background, which you can see in the lower half of my piece.

Credits: the background is by T Baxter and the trees and foliage are by Bergit Kerr, both at SBG.

Imagine

This is an art journal piece inspired by Milliande at the Milliande Art Community for Women (see the link lower down on the right).  Each day in January she has been posting a mixed media journal page. Mine is based on her page for January 15th.

Fashion

Credits: All elements by T Baxter @ SBG
I created this digital piece for the Three Muses whose theme this week is fashion.

Art journalling

I have started a year long art journalling course with Sherrie JD, over at Deviant Scrap. It is a very hands-on, mixed media course. Here are my first three pages, all similar, but not the same, as Sherrie's. The main material on these pages is acrylic paint, with the additional use of some pens and pencils to bring out the details. If you want to see more detail just double-click on the picture you are looking at.

Wild and Free

'Botanicals' is the word given to us for the Take a Word challenge this week. I think the botanical elements are fairly obvious in my piece!

Credits: Here & Now kit by Rosey Posey & Stolen Moments Designs @ SBG

Pens

Sunday Postcard Art challenged us to use pens in our postcards this week. Here's my interpretation of the theme.

Credits: Rosey Posey's 'Discovery' kit , which can be found at SBG

Artists

I really enjoyed The Three Muses' challenge this week to use the work of a particular artist, so I have created two more pieces!

Credits: All elements from 'Timeless Masters' by T Baxter @ SBG

Four journal pages

ACF 101

Art Creations Friday have given us a calendar page to play with this week.  I decided to use it whole and to incorporate into a digital, fabric collage (if that's not a contradiction in terms!).

Credits: Bohemian Rhapsody kit by Studio Ztampf @ SBG

Degas

This week The Three Muses challenge us to use a favourite painting in our pieces.

I chose a painting of ballet dancers by Degas.

Credits: T Baxter's Timeless Masters kit, @ SBG

Digital Asian pages

Credits: all elements from Abundance of Asia kit by T Baxter & A Sexton @ SBG