I had fun with this week's Wanderlust lesson on Collage with Marta Tapkowska (aka Meremi). First I rounded up vintage papers to create the background in my Art Journal. My favorite was adding some vintage library cards. The next step was to add ephemera. I chose some Tim Holtz Butterflies and blooms. I … Read more
The current them of our lessons at Wonderlust is about Silhouettes with Kate Crane. She started with several ways to create our vivid backgrounds. The Brayer-to-Paper technique was one I had used several years ago at Art Camp with Lauren from watching a Paper Artsy Video, so I already had a stash of painted papers … Read more
This week's Wanderlust lesson by Mary Beth Shaw of StencilGirl was our final on the subject of Serendipity. MaryBeth's project didn't include any text (other than some covered journaling) or focal images. It just focused on the Serendipitous process of creating art. She did some creating with bleeding tissue paper and with napkins (but I … Read more
We're still on the Serendipity theme at Wanderlust this week with our instructor the talented Carolyn Dube. Her lesson was planned Serendipity since we chose five or so random supplies to use to create (but didn't limit ourselves to that if the design called for something else). Here is what I chose from walking around … Read more
I had fun making lots of art today. It started with my Wanderlust lesson, which was to focus on using just paper to create a collage. Since the overarching theme was Ephemera, I just worked from my collage drawer. Next I took a face drawing class with Dina Wakley on Facebook. After my disastrous … Read more
I was thrilled to win the new Heartfelt Love Stamp Set from Newton's Nook in their recent blog hop, so I wanted to ink it up for a Galentine's Day Card to get in the mail. I stamped the image and sentiment in Black StazOn ink on one of my paper bag salted background papers … Read more
I really loved this week's Wanderlust lesson on Ephemera and Contrast. I started with a vintage picture of my Great Aunt Mary that I snapped from her photo album during our last visit together, vintage sheet music, and lots of wonderful vintage ledger papers from Lauren (have you checked out all of the vintage goodies … Read more
This week's Wanderlust lesson felt a lot more in my wheel house than the previous ones. It started by cutting apart pieces of paper bag (I also used two different kraft papers I had on rolls) and painting them with gesso. Once the gesso dried we added Watercolor paint (I used my new Kuretake Gansai … Read more
This week's Wanderlust lesson was to first draw and then paint a self-portrait. We started with some collage papers. I used a torn page of vintage sheet music as well as both sides of a scrap of designer paper. Next came the self portrait. I watched the video … I followed the instructions … Read more
This week's Wanderlust Art Journaling exercise was to use all sorts of materials to create a Garden of Wishes for 2021. I started with text pages, sheet music, and flower photos. This week I decided to move to a larger watercolor paper journal to be more balanced with the images I wanted to use. … Read more