I just love these faces. Don’t they look like BFFs? Is there anything a BFF can’t fix? They’re your go-to gal, your pick-me-upper, your even-when-I-hate-myself-I-know-I’m-loved bestie. Yea for girlfriends!
Materials: Dylusions spray inks, Joggles stencil, Faber-Castell Big Brush markers, Gelatos & Artist Black pens, Signo white pen, Derwent Inktense pencils, matte medium, moulding paste, Dina Wakley (bird) stamps
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about finding your bliss. Life is too short to do things that don’t fill your spirit. This is a little reminder.
Materials: vintage & watercolour papers, Dylusion inks, Ranger distress inks, charcoal pencil, black ink, matte medium, Tim Holtz stamps & stencils, Joggles stencil
After having difficulty with Dylusions Spray Inks (I love them, but they tend to over saturate my paper despite various methods of water vs. ink) I wanted to try Pan Pastels for my background. Easy to stamp over, but as I was doing some hand letting I had to spray with a fixative so the pastels wouldn’t erase.
I used a combination of white & black ink, Glossy Accents & Glaze pens for colour.
I wanted the word “dreams” to look different from the other text, so I wrote it by hand and used Perfect Pearls to give it some shimmer.
It was actually quite a number of steps, which I was too lazy to document. Couldn’t pull myself away from creating long enough. Enjoy, seena.
I’ve been practicing using my writing instead of stamping. Not sure how I feel about that yet. Seems a little messy for my taste, but practice makes perfect. Enjoy. xo, seena
The background was inspired by Dyan Reaveley. Starting with large “scribbles,” I used common smaller shapes to fill in the larger shapes, then painted them in bright colours. (Because I knew I’d be painting over it, I didn’t spend a lot of time zen tangling.) I used a mask to cover a section of the grid and a distressed ink dabber in black to colour over the rest, leaving the profile behind. Where the colour shows through the black it’s actually Silks acrylic paint. I didn’t know it would do that, but it was a happy accident. It reminds me a bit of graffiti art.
I was inspired by the lyrics of a Billy Joel song (his version, not the Glee update) when thinking about Joanne Sharpe’s “Whismy Grid” lettering. This finished piece feels kind of ethereal to me, as though stars are lighting up the figure’s dress.
I was careful to sketch things out in soft pencil first, lest I make any errors. I did a LOT of erasing!
I could have stopped here, but I kept challenging myself to add more detail.
Derwent Inktense Pencils were used to shade the half circles. And my Signo white pen got a workout.
Thank you, Leonard Cohen.
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