Spring! - Art Journal Page for Country View Challenges

Hello all, 

nice to have you here today! I want to share with you my second project for the April challenge Easter and/or Spring over at Country View Challenges!

This time I made an art journal page with handpainted flowers, using watercolors.

Maybe the little girl is waiting for the Easter bunny to come?

This is what I did:

I prepared my page with white Gesso and sketched the tulip, the daffodil and the grape hyacinths slightly onto my page. I painted them with watercolors, and when they were dry I colored the background  with very watery blue watercolors. Then I shaded the flowers with a charcoal pencil, added some highlights and doodling with posca pens in brown and white and surrounded my page with black charcoal. I was missing a little something, so I stamped some butterflies and colored them with watercolors.

Now I only had to stamp some background stamps onto my page for more interest and glue down the little girl, a paper doll from Tim Holtz. I really love these paper dolls, they always give your work something special!

Here are some close ups:

That little girl looks so cute, doesn´t she?!

Now it´s your turn to make something Easter or Spring related and share with us at Country View Challenges! You have plenty of time left! And remember - you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher for the shop! So I hope you will hippedi-hop in 😋.

Thank you for your visit today and happy Easter!

Perfect Peace - Art Journal Page for CVC

Hello dear visitors, nice to have you here! 💗

The New Year is gets moving on and we are all back to normal life I think.

Today I want to share with you my second inspiration peace piece for the January challenge cityscape/landscape over at Country View Challenges.

I must admit, landscapes are not something I do very often and it´s totally out of my comfort zone. So I was sitting here thinking round and round, what I could do. I do not have stamps for cityscape or landscape, so it was not easy for me!

But then I looked out the window and watched the falling snow - then I knew what I wanted to do - a wintery landscape! As you might know, I live here near the Alpes, surrounded by mountains. I remembered a walk through the wood and it was snowing. And when I looked to the landscape, standing at the edge of the wood, I thought: "Wow, how peaceful the world looks!"

Having this in mind, I created my art journal page:

I made a process video, so enjoy watching!

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today!

Now I hope, you will join in with our January challenge, I am curious, what you will show us! And of course, just like the years before, you can win a 20£ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit and have a wonderful day!

I want to join in with the following challenges:

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-year-new-creative-challenge.html

https://mixedmediaandart.blogspot.com/2018/12/december-challenge-winter-melody.html I was inspired by the blue color, the wintery mood, the little lit houses and the texture on the sketch.

https://nightshiftstamping.blogspot.com/2019/01/brrr-wie-kalt-ist-das-denn.html

http://www.vintagejourney.com/2019/01/put-your-stamp-on-it-challenge.html

Travelling Art Journal, #6 - DT Project for Canvas Corp Brands

Hello, nice to have you here!

Today I want to share my July pages for the Travelling Art Journal for Canvas Corp Brands.

You can find more informations about it here.

Hallo, schön, dass ihr bei mir rein schaut!

Heute möchte ich euch meine Juli Seiten des Travelling Art Journal Projekts für Canvas Corp Brands zeigen. Wenn ihr mehr dazu erfahren wollt, könnt ihr euch hier informieren.

This year I´m doing a online course to learn many different ways in painting/drawing faces (btw: I LOVE this classes!). Here I did some practising in challenging angles. I used a photo from the www., which I found that it is perfectly matching to the sentiment from CCB 7gypsies Mixed Media Pad Gypsy Moments.

This is the reference photo I used:

Here are some steps on what I made:

 First I sketched the face with a pencil.

 Then I painted it with several Acrylic paints and white Gesso.

 To tone the face a little bit down I did some glazing with high impact paints and Matte Medium. I seals the painting at the same time =). I used this mix for the right side of the pages too to create the background.

 To make it even more interesting, I used oil paint sticks in blue and white to set some highlights.

This is a very subtile way and I love it.

 To adjust the color of the sentiment I gave the surface some glazing in blue.

 For the right side of the journal I took some Glimmer Mists (dragonfly and black cherry) and Gimmer Glam turquoise and added somer sprinkles.

Next I added some gold leafes from my stash - ready!

Here are some close ups:

I hope you like my journal pages and I would love to hear what you think! Your comments are appreciated <3

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Travelling Art Journal, #5 - DT Project for Canvas Corp Brands

Hello dear friends,

I missed last month to post my June entry in the Travelling Art Journal for Canvas Corp Brands!

So I don´t want to withhold it and I share it right before the July pages with you.

If you missed my first pages or want to get more information how the journey works, you can find it 

here, here and here

Hallo zusammen,

mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich ganz versäumt habe meine Juni Seiten im Travelling Art Journal für Canvas Corp Brands mit euch zu teilen!

Ich möchte sie euch natürlich nicht vorenthalten, deshalb zeige ich sie euch jetzt, bevor ich euch meinen Juli Eintrag präsentiere.

Wenn ihr die vorherigen Seiten verpasst haben solltet, könnt ihr hier, hier und hier nachlesen.

Here is what I did:

So habe ich sie gemacht:

First I put one stripe of masking tape to the middle of the two pages to protect the other pages of the journal. Then I gathered my colors and a stencil I wanted to use. 

Zuerst habe ich die Seitenmitte mit Maskingtape abgeklebt um die anderen Seiten zu schützen. Danach habe ich Farben und Schablone bereitgelegt.

 The stamp with the sentiment (PaperArtsy)

Und einen Spruch Stempel (PaperArtsy)

 Then I dribbled the paints onto my pages and spreat it with a makeup sponge.

Im Anschluss Farben auftropfen und mit einem Makeup Schwämmchen verteilen.

 Now a lot of stamping.

Jetzt jede Menge Stempeln.

 After this I used the stencil and painted some parts with golden paint.

Nun Farbe mit der Schablone auftragen, einige Teile sind mit Gold ausgemalt.

 Now lots and lots of doodling with black, white, silver and gold.

Jetzt gaaaanz viel doodling mit schwarz, weiß, silber und gold.

 I sketched the butterfly and painted the outside black. to create some highlights I surrounded him with light blue Gelatos. Now I added some butterflies and the stamped sentiment.

Den Schmetterling skizzieren, außen herum mit schwarzer Farbe übermalen und um ihn etwas mehr hervor zu heben mit hellblauem Gelato umrahmen. Nun nur noch ein paar gestanzte Schmetterlinge und den gestempelten Spruch aufkleben - fertig.

Here are some close ups:

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Vielen Dank fürs Reinhüpfen hier!

Layout "Art" - DT Project for ARTastic

Hello all, 

it´s the first of April and there is a new challenge at ARTastic!

For your inspiration there is a painting from Kenneth MacQueen - Wild Poppies.

If you want to know more about the artist, hop over to the blog, there you´ll find interesting informations!

Now to our challenge. You can use the picture as an inpiration, may be the watercoloring, maybe the shades of grey, the flowers - whatever you like.

The only requested criteria is:  POPS OF RED on your page

This is my take on the challenge:

I was inspired by the watercoloring. I took a photo from my stash, I wanted to use for ages. Now it was the perfect one for the challenge!

I glued paper stripes on a cardstock and painted the surface with white Gesso. Then I placed the photo and drew a face matching to the eye.

I fixed the pencil drawing with some fixative spray.

Now I took some of my ecoline liquid watercolors and painted the face. Then I matted the photo and glued it down.

I took some flower stamps from PaperArtsy, stamped them with Distress Ink in weathered wood and colored them with Pastel pencils. I wrote the word "Art" with a black water soluble pencil and activated it with some water.

 I shaded the edges with Distress Ink black soot.

I decided, to leave the layout as it is and didn´t use any embellishments.

Here are some close ups

Now I hope, that you will find time to join in our challenge this month!

Thank you for dropping in today.

I want to participate in following challenges:
http://craftylifechallenges.blogspot.de/2017/03/get-messy.html
http://blog.emeraldcreek.org/2017/03/splatter-some-fun-march-dare-pt2.html
http://mixedmediaworld.blogspot.de/2017/03/mmw23-anything-mixed-media-goes-with.html

http://mixedmediaplace.blogspot.de/2017/03/march-challenge_20.html
I was inspired by the quote and colors. ART always sets my soul on fire =))