Hope everyone had a great Holiday--it's nice this time of year for us to have our family together--seems to get harder and harder every year for everyone to be in the same place at the same time, so it was great. But I have to say, this wears me out--I'm ready to go into my winter hermit lifestyle and into my art room and do some playing. I made this piece the week before Christmas--I would take the time to have some play time, which helps me unwind. So I decided that this piece was going to be all about paper collage. And my favorite way to collage is with my own papers.
I was so excited to find these textured foam rollers at Michaels in the kids department (remember to always look in the kids art department at any craft store to see what you can find) They make great marks on your paper, journal pages, or canvas.
And I always like to play with new stencils that I get--
This is called Circle Fun Stencil which I found at Stencil Girl Products --just one of the many that I found there during their cyber Monday sale--love their stencil designs!
Next I had a 10 x 20 wooden cradle board that I decided to use for my working surface. I painted it to get started and chose some of my papers that I painted to use on it.
The next thing I did was make a template of what I was going to put on that surface, and I already knew what it was going to be even before I painted my papers--I wanted to make some giraffe art.....soooo I drew some giraffes making sure that they would be the right size for my 10 x 20 working space.
I drew the sections on the bodies and then I numbered them--
--which I cut and used as my templates for my papers, and here's the start of my collaged giraffes--
I love doing it this way--I number the paper pieces to coincide with the numbered templates and it all comes together just like a puzzle--this is very relaxing to me.
Next I added details to these 2 and brought them more to life, with the help from some ephemera, and some outlining and highlighting with faber castell pitt pen markers--
So I knew that I wanted to add to the background, because that's what I do. I decided to add some whimsy flowers using my papers--
I wanted to tone them down a bit so that they weren't competing with the giraffes, so I added some paint to them, and I took that same paint (Golden brand Light Turquois Phthalo--one of my go-to paints) to add to the background to create more depth. I also gave some texture to the flowers with molding paste in their centers.
And here's how my collage/painting turned out--
….already found its permanent home in Arizona!
I hope you all have a happy 2019--take time for you--the best way to be happy!!
Next I added details to these 2 and brought them more to life, with the help from some ephemera, and some outlining and highlighting with faber castell pitt pen markers--
So I knew that I wanted to add to the background, because that's what I do. I decided to add some whimsy flowers using my papers--
I wanted to tone them down a bit so that they weren't competing with the giraffes, so I added some paint to them, and I took that same paint (Golden brand Light Turquois Phthalo--one of my go-to paints) to add to the background to create more depth. I also gave some texture to the flowers with molding paste in their centers.
And here's how my collage/painting turned out--
….already found its permanent home in Arizona!
I hope you all have a happy 2019--take time for you--the best way to be happy!!
