SPRING JOURNAL 2014

And here is my final project from Junelle Jacobsen's class.

ENJOY!!

The book was titled "Small Miracles"

Using leftover page to create some 3D bunny ears and flower pot.

Used simple frame designs to highlight the pages words and add some fun elements.

Capturing a soon-to-be memory this summer. 

used a technique I learned from Diane Culhane's summer camp class to complete a funky image of spring characters and figures from random collage of doodles and paint colors.

I grabbed my "20 Ways To Draw a Cat" book and started sketching away grids, and larger figures for a majority of the pages.  And also from my personal sketchbook.

I thought it was so neat how those words from the book ended up inside the frame. 

Probably my favorite pages. Love the colors. 

My heart be still. Took inspiration from Kelly Barton. Her work is so FUN! 

Several statements I used were found in Native American sayings or prayers. 

That's the word turtle in Japanese. Shout out to my brother (How did I do?)

And the lil mouse is just too cute. I used some Daniel Smith irredescents watercolors on the door. They are just gorgeous. 

Now off to my next art adventure...

RUBBERMOON: Stamp Painting-By-Numbers

HELLO LUCY W/ Bunny Ears!

This month I wanted to try something different with my RubberMoon stamp. Plus wanted to incorporate an Easter/Spring theme.

  If many of you don't already know, I adore Sunny's funky/fun art style.  She has recently been doing a lot of great large scale paintings. And I still have my obsession with Paint-By-Numbers.

So out of my head came a Painting-By-Number using this stamp.

After stamping on to a piece of paper (image on upper left),

I used a copy machine to enlarge the image 200%.

....The resulting image (on upper right corner) another 200%.

---and then the next larger image (center bottom) another 185%

to get the result of a full 8.5x11 page image. 

I scanned in the final result for my future references;however if you print off the images, the posted pictures will not appear in the correct dimensions as stated.  I had to use a photo of the .pdf's I created. 

I opted to use the second largest image for a 5x7 project size.

I copied the image onto white cardstock  and trimmed to size. 

Since the image uses thick black lines in places, I used a white Uni-Ball Signo and Molotow pen to lighten the image and open filled spaces. Then retraced in black adding a few more details of my own. 

Always scanning the image as progress is made for future uses (also a good idea in case errors are made). 

And then I just used a pen to make random scribbles and doodles all over the page. 

Next step...plotting out the colors. I picked a limited selection of colors adding a numbering system to each.

And then added the numbers corresponding to the colors to the design. 

And made a black and white copy. 

And now you can let the fun begin. PAINT AWAY! 

I labeled a paint tin and put the colors in each.

 I have no clue at this point how this will turn out but it looks fun...

and that is all that matters.

AND THE RESULT.....

(after some color changes in some areas)

.....

I failed to take a photo of the original "final" color layout as I was on a roll getting it painted,

but only really altered the background colors to have less dark blue iu the sky and light green in the grass plus more light brown/tan in the face. The image was a bit chaotic so I need to make sure the stamp was the main focus.

The final copy was on the edge of a 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.  I wasn't planning on trimming the 5x7 dimension until I finished painting. So instead,

I folded the paper,

trimmed off the bottom edge, and will use it as a card to give to

some"Bunny" special :).

HAPPY SPRING!

Through this process, I realize a lot of art/stamping/creativity is a matter of trial and error.

Just continue to have fun in the process, and the end result will be appreciated by all.