What's in my art journal? Silhouette Fred

Ok, so I bought Dyan Reavely's Silhouette Fred Stencil.  I wasn't sure if I was suppose to cut out the mask or not.  I tried spraying ink on it and it left the faintest ink outline.  So I decided to cut it out.

When I'm working on a page I don't always know that I'm going to post it, so I don't have a picture of the page as I began.  It's a page in my small Strathmore Mixed Media journal that already had a background on it, all I needed was the focal point.  

Here I'm using the stencil to put down an area of color (Dylusions Lemon Zest)

Next I used the mask to do the outline .

Then with a fine tip marker, I quickly sketched in an outfit.  I goofed on the facial features and decided to use a magazine cut out instead.  Which I liked soooooo much better anyway.

....and that's a wrap! I love this expression. For some reason, I love expressions like this.  If I find a word, quote or phrase to use, I may add it later.  For now, he cracks me up as is.

Thanks for stopping by.  Until the next blog....enjoy!

Carol

What's in my art journal? When is enough enough?

...I mean really!  I watched a Dyan Reaveley video on color mixing(she only uses three in the same color family) and ghosting (water sprayed through a stencil leaves a very light colored stencil outline). A technique I had to try.   You know the camera is never rolling when you want it to be so I missed taking pictures of the beginning part of laying down the colors and building up the layers with ghosting and stenciling.

I used my own stencil desgin around the sides and bottom of the art journal.  The figures are my stencil too.  Then I thought it needed more and more and more.  I think I went a bit crazy, there's so much to look at.   What do you think? Did I go to far?

This looks gorgeous so far

Then I stenciled some more and added white....perhaps too much.

Tried toning down all that white outline by doodling in it and blocking some of it out around the stars, then added more white marking through a stencil.

Finally, I was able to stop myself.  I enjoyed this spread so much.  These pages took two days to do.  According to Dyan Reaveley people don't allow enough drying time between the inks and certain techniques especially when it comes to writing on your page with a white pen.  She said though the pages may appear dry the core of the page may still be wet and spraying inks on the back of the page could cause it to seep through.  Check out her video here, it's very informative.

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