Art in a journal

After my creative session on the 2. of January I have continued working on different journal pages.

The session was a kind of boost of ideas.

Here come some of the pages I have been working on, mostly today.

The above page (unfinished) is inspired from the session, both colours and technique have been used the other day.

Nr. 2is a mixed media painting starting with pastels in blue and brown, painting over with yellow acrylic. I used a feather to draw fine lines with writing ink, added more pastel and acrylic, detailing spots with a pencil and an oil pastel pen. An interesting process (not finished)

Another example of mixed media with the same material as above (unfinished).

Drawn with a feather and watered down acrylic, something I've never tried before. Actually a great discovery which I would like to use more often. It makes truly fine lines and I can choose any colour I want!

Owl painting in progress, still a lot of work to be done here!

Had a happy PAINT PARTY FRIDAY :-)

Wish the same to you at:

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.de

Kreativsession

In an earlier post I told you about a birthday present I gave to my sister and my niece. A Creative session/afternoon.

So yesterday was the day for our creative session. Before we started, we had a cup of coffee and some creme brulé and a little talk about our New Years Eve- experiences.

We started out with an idea I got from Julie Fei Fan Balzer: feathers. balzerdesigns.how-to-deli-paper-feathers

It was a good way to start, to let the creative spirit arouse.

And here are the feathers we did finish:

We started with rice-paper feathers. They have a soft character and turned out to be favored material for us to work with. The second feather was in a more sturdy material (photo print-paper).

The next thing we did were tags. This is a new media for all of us and I have only worked with tags a few times before. We did some collaging and working with layers and used tape to spare parts of our layout and worked over the tape, and removed it in the end. We used net and a simple stamp of cork to create liveliness in the layout.

Two of the tags were painted on both sides:

And one of mine a mini collage is going to be integrated in a bigger collage, which I started using different material: bits of a print I did last year, some toilet paper used to remove colour during the session yesterday and some pictures from a journal about artists of the 1980'ies.

In between we did projects more freely, my niece drew and painted this lady:

And my sister made a layout for a card:

It is truly a mixed media project, using water colour, ink pen, printing with net and some foil, which gives a shiny effect.

After we had dinner together and a cosy talk on the sofa our guests left, and I thought, I would use some of the leftover acrylic colours.

I put on some music and found the owl I drew on my wacom board and started this painting.

The owl got eyes and a beak...

Which I found out was too small, so I painted over it with white acrylic, and then

I somehow made the green colour float all over the painting! I took a break from the owl-painting.

These lines and colours were the last thing for me to work with, before I went sleeping last night:

It was a great session and my sister asked me to do a drawing session next time. We'll see :-)

Owl in black and white

Inspired by a photo and wanting to use the wacom board again I made this doodle drawing of an owl.

It was a wonderful day for a walk at the sea yesterday...

Inspiration from around

 1. Artjournal page

Christmas-card collage in progress

Creative play dough-walldecoration

I've done some playing around with different backgrounds and colors. The first two pictures are made from a mono print done at school with a wide brush and acrylic. 

Some of the pictures are taken on an intermediate stage (the pages aren't finished) ;-)

The first page was colored with water color,

on the second page I used pastels and tea. 

A friend of mine has been to Australia and taken a lot of photos of plants and animals, which she shared with me, as she knows I like to draw/paint, integrating nature in my work. Thank you, Eva!!!

So you can guess that this locust is from Australia. 

Newspaper strips collage on black foundation/art journal, painted with acrylic and black oil pastel.

In the week end I made some tags (the first ones that are really finished) for my sister and my niece

who've had birthday in December and I have chosen to give them a creative session for their birthdays. I am really looking forward to having a great time and crafting with some wonderful beings.

The last picture is a portrait of a girl in two different media, pastel and water color.

I find she is my favorite girl :-)

Hermann Hesse portrait

A little sketch on a calendar page with an Emil Nolde water colour painting.

I used white acrylic as a base to draw on with a dark grey pastel. In parts the white paint was rubbed off by the pastel and the colours of the Nolde-picture came through with a very interesting effect.