Words of Wisdom

The challenge at Three Muses this week is 'The Written Word'.  This journal page has quite a few layers but creating it gave me so much joy!

There was no initial plan, no rough outline, just me with my journal and a pile of art 'stuff'.

Death by a sharp word!

The background of the page is completely covered with pages from an old Punch magazine and sealed with Golden Mat Medium.  Once dry I painted over the top with DecoArt medium white mixed with Liquitex mat medium (makes the paint thin without losing pigment.) Once this was dry I used Gallery Molding paste through a text stencil and waited for it to dry completely.  Next came a text stamp in Archival Ink in Monarch Orange, followed by a French Script stamp in Archival French Ultramarine.
I then used Sennelier Oil pastels in Chinese Orange and Azure Blue and used my finger to smear them into the page and over the raised molding paste.

The words are all printed in different sizes from the computer and dabbed with Spiced Marmalade distress ink.  (tip:  I always use a pouncing motion over printed words so that the ink doesn't smear).

Thanks so much to Three Muses for the theme, I've really enjoyed creating this piece!  Check out what the other artists have done.

Spare a copper?

The theme at Three Muses this week is Autumn and I was keen to create something, but I've been working long hours and not had much time for art.  Hence, I found myself starting this piece late this afternoon, and for some crazy reason I chose to make another video (which always takes me much longer).

Autumn Leaves

The piece is on 10" x 7" 140lb watercolour paper with quite a heavy texture.  The base layer is water soluble wax crayons in autumnal colours, followed by some molding paste through a leaf stencil at the base.  After the paste dried I painted it with a green / blue patina paint, followed by various metallic paints, copper, bronze, gold, iridescent bronze.

Then came a layer of leaf stamps all over the paper in green, yellow and brown, before I stamped deciduous tree branches all over the paper in both black and brown.

The tree is made with twisted wire and glued to the page with glossy accents.  Finally I cut the small leaves freehand, coloured them in 3 shades of distress ink and when dry, gave them all a touch of metallic paint to match the leaves in the foreground.  Finally I glued the individual leaves to the tree branches.

The video is loaded on YouTube but I found some parts out of sequence so have to load it again :(  If anyone would like me to update them once its loaded please let me know

Thanks to Three Muses, I've really enjoyed every minute of this!