Tag: Art Journal Sharing

Oh Dear!

It was bound to happen wasn’t it? I’ve missed my Art Journal Sharing post for the last couple of weeks. Ok, face the truth Kim, it is more like six weeks isn’t it? Oh boy! And just when the September issue of Craft Stamper comes out with me saying that I’m putting up a journal page on my blog every week come what may. D’oh! *Massive Fail*

Oh well, the house move turned out far more disruptive than I had naively thought, you just can not do it all can you? I still haven’t got a journal page to share today but, tell you what, how do you fancy a couple of images of my new space with some half-baked projects thrown in for good measure?  

You up for that? Great!

I’m lucky enough to be able to fit a couple of desks in my new workspace, which is a huge improvement on the small wooden boards I was working on in the kitchen of our old flat! You can see a couple of pics of the other desk if you visit my Instagram page. 

I have got a couple of works in progress on the desk at the moment but they are just a bit of playing with no fixed outcome or projects in mind. A bit of experimenting with some old comic books on a old book page and 

on an old canvas with a bit of stamping. The stamp is the SCACD Art of Chemistry stamp, one of my faves at the moment! Don’t know if either projects will evolve but if they do I will let you know!

Of course I’m still mostly in boxes…

and scratching my head about what to do about storage. But I do have a little windowsill which has been starting to gather some items!

Time to get on with some work again so I shall catch you all later and hope you have a fun rest of your Wednesday.

Thanks for popping in.

Kim

What is your favourite technique with acrylic paint?

I don’t know that I have one yet, I don’t think I’ve tried enough techniques to have a favourite. I need more techniques in my arty toolbox so I keep experimenting. Here are some of my painty texture experiments from this week. So who fancies a share? I would love to know what techniques you have been playing with.

This messy page uses three techniques, the first one is collage, so not really painty. I’ve covered the page with some left over butterfly die-cuts then layered over the top with paint. The two techniques I’ve used for the paint layers are dry brushing and using petroleum jelly (Vaseline) resist. There is probably around six layers on this one, including the collage.

It is a very grungy look isn’t it?

Then I made a page just using the petroleum jelly (Vaseline) resist and two layers.

You might also know the petroleum jelly resist technique as the peeled paint technique. I love the way that you can see the wording on the page just peeking though the red paint wash under-layer.

I first came across the petroleum jelly resist technique a few years back in Claudine Hellmuth’s book Collage Discovery Workshop*. But if you can’t get a hold of this book you can also find it in Nancy Reyner’s Acrylic Revolution* book which is stuffed full of great acrylic paint techniques, so well worth adding to your bookshelf.

I love making painty textures and I’m always on the lookout for new textures. I have a Pinterest board devoted to them for a bit of Pinspiration.

Follow Kim Dellow’s board Textures on Pinterest.

The colours of the layers and the look of the texture is a great help for paint combining and trying to mimic weathered looks. You can tell that I’m a bit of a texture freak can’t you? If you are too then do come and follow my board.

For some more of my acryilc paint experiments check out this post about acrylic skins. 

Let me know what painty techniques you have been playing with recently in the comments below or if you are a texture-head too I would love to hear about it – an obsession shared and all that! 

Kim

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Hey Wednesday hoppers, how are you doing? It is Art Journal sharing time and this week I’m a doodling in my journal.

Are you a doodler? When you doodle do you tend to stick to the same things or are you more doodle adventurous? I tend to find that if I’m doodling without thinking about it I just draw the same things over and over again. I kind of get stuck in this creative doodle rut, repeating the same patterns or pictures and never breaking out of my comfort zone. So, as part of my hope to improve my sketching skills, I am trying to make my doodling more mindful and deliberate and doodle things I would not usually doodle. 

With that in mind I set out to make a full doodle journal page.

I painted the page with some black chalkboard paint, or you could use a mat black paint too.

Then doodled with a white chalk marker pen.

The inspiration was one of those gallery walls that are very popular in home décor circles at the moment. I do like the idea of multiple frames making up one feature or picture, so that was the look I was going for with this page.

You can probably guess the theme? It is about creativity and idea generation and I’ve added doodle pictures in some frames and journaling in others.

That is my share this week, how about you? What journaling have you been up to this week? I would love to hear about any journaling you have been doing, art, writing, doodling, smashing, it all works for me so leave me a comment and a link so I can pop on by for a look!

Catch you later Journalators.

Kim