monochromatic blue

Apparently it is blue Monday today,

well behold here my all blue page.

"Butterflies hover and feathers appear whenever angels are near"

DPP faded

I knew I wanted to use my neocolors II for this prompt ,

But how or what??

So I just started drawing,

 some circles, connecting them and coloring the blocks.

Next some water spritzing and yes it did create some awesome drips.

On my desk there were some hearts laying around, 

so on they went.

DPP white - Hygge

The other day I read a newspaper article about the Danish being the happiest people in the world, they attribute that to Hygge.

Hygge means creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. The warm glow of candlelight is hygge. Friends and family – that’s hygge too. There's nothing more hygge than sitting round a table, discussing the big and small things in life;...

I grabbed my collage drawer and searched for things I thought are hygge: butterflies, rabbits, snow, toeslippers,...

here are all the images I collected on my desk,
I think I might like
this collage even better than the actual page.

some details

WOYWW 385 - Marit's goodies

Hello there on yet another Wednesday, 

which in my world is 

WhatsOnYourWorkdeskWednesday.

This is my workdesk today 

you can see a page in progress using the daily paper prompt 'ogee pattern' 

AND in the corner my goodies I won with Marit's give avay

I bet you are all here to view those goodies.

 I received them on Monday from Marit in a nicely decorated envelop,

happy dans for happy mail, 

gaze upon the treasure

gorgeous patterned papers, stickers, buttons, acetate and ribbon.

a little notebook

and my favorites: postcards from her artwork.

DPP 7 leftovers

We are all wanderers on this earth.

 Our hearts are full of wonder,

and are souls are deep with dreams.

vintage scrap papers, modeling paste and ecoline.

DPP4 flowers

For this prompt I started with a collage of leftover flower patterned paper.

Overstamped the collage with different flower stamps in black.

Next I added some color, it needed to be translucent so I used ecoline watercolor.

And I felt like handpainting some flowers, so i did.

I cut out these cute images of hummingbirds out an old National Geographic magazine, just perfect.

DPP2 windows

With the second daily paper prompt, windows, I had the idea to use some cute owl stickers I recently bought. So I decided to create a blue night scene.

I started by stamping a birdcage stamp randomly with blue ink to create some interest:

Painted over it with some blue acrylic paint

Next I spent the good part of the day struggling with my silhouette, I wanted to create a windows stencil, but it took me a while before I figured out I needed to add some attachments between the window and paper because it just cutted everything out leaving a big hole.

But while trying I liked these arch windows, so I grabbed a gelli print and cut some out, these reminded me in some way of The Sound of Music, so instead of the owls I wanted to add some dancers (the oldest girl with her boyfriend dancing in the rain in the gazebo), the dancers were also cut with the silhouette.

Now it only needed a good quote and If you hear music, dance is just apt for this page.

DPP1 rainbow

The last couple of months my creativity has been on a very very low level, actually almost non existing.

In order to reignite it I searched for some ideas and stumbled across Daisy yellows daily paper prompts:

a series of 67 techniques-based creative prompts to learn, practice or otherwise interpret a variety of techniques that could then be components or lead to new ideas for art.

It is a little nudge to help me commit to a recurring creative play date.

Prompt 1 is rainbows.

I started out by selecting all the colors of the rainbow in panda oil pastels and colored the rainbow in the shape of a heart, no thinking just doing.

I felt like creating a sunburst so I took a babywipe and wiped  stripes from the inner heart outward.

Next I punched out a whole bunch of butterflies in the same colors and glued them on the corresponding colored heart.

However I seem to have issues keeping them glued down on the oil pastels, should I have sealed it first? Or use another type of glue? (I now used Rangers glossy accents)

The prompt did the trick because I did 2 pages in one go.

On the second page I sprayed Dylusions spray inks over the page in the colors of the rainbow, on a separate page I colored the rainbowcolors diagonally with oil pastels,cut out hearts in different sizes and glued them to the page.

I created some drips on the top with white ecoline, only to realize that of course the Dylusions react with waterbased products, oops.

Not sure whether this page is finished or not, but for now I call it finished.