Today at Crafty Cardmakers the lovely Angela is hosting our Explosion of Colour challenge.
My ‘explosion’ is in my Art Journal. I started with a page that I had mopped up some blue colour with from a gel print. And then I just added random colours to the page. In the middle it looked a little muddy as I had gone a step too far and not wanting to just abandon it I decided to stencil the face into the middle. I then gessoed out the face area and all her features until it was back to a reasonably blank area and re-stencilled in the features. The Stencil is from Jane Davenport from her Jane Girls series from Artist Cellar. I coloured her face with three portrait colours from IndigoBlu’s acrylic paint range, Porcelain, Fair and Mid Beige. Her cheeks, lips and eyes were all coloured with Jane’s Lip and Pastel Palettes Tins.
The purple diecuts are also from Jane’s range, Artomology, You Are Unique, dies, and I coloured the insides of these with Sakura Koi pens.
Her hair is a selection of Heartfelt Creations Wildwood Blossoms stamps and dies, which I stamped onto some Distress Oxide blended cards. Their centres are from a range called Nail Art which I got in Poundland for a quid! Bargain, when you think what micro beads and prills cost!
All the coloured bits around the edge are also from Jane’s range of stamps, Flower Girls. I used just the hairstyles of two of the girls to add the interest at the edges and coloured them with Sakura Koi pens.
As you can see in the closer pic below, drawing is not my strong suit. The eyes don’t look right and I can’t quite put my finger on why, but as I couldn’t correct it even if I did know I guess that’s what makes her unique!!
Finally I added some Midas Touch to the eye shadows and lips, and some white highlights to the eyes and lips. I did splatter midas touch across the piece, before I did the stencilling in the middle, but sadly the camera doesn’t seem to pick this up without extreme difficulty!
I am entering her into:-
A Inky Mess – #25 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Altered Eclectics – Oct: Anything Mixed Media Goes
Back to Basics – #14 Stencils or Masks
Catch The Bug – Anything But A Card
Colour Crazy Craft Challenge – #43 Anything Goes with colouring
Create A Smile – Create your Own Background
Creativ Fusion Arts & Crafts – #5 Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #92 Anything Goes
Love to Create – #13 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Not Just Cards – Oct: Anything Goes
Polkadoodles – #43 Anything Goes
Rhedd’s Creative Spirit – Oct: Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge – #10 Oct: Anything Goes
The Crafters Cafe – #206 Feminine
Worldwide Open Design Team Chall – #10 Oct: Anything Goes
