Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Art journal page - Look mum, I am a street artist

Hello everyone,

you won't find a fancy stamping technique in this post. Today I'm taking you on a little excursion about composition. With this art journal page I want to show you that you can stage your small stamps on larger projects. I didn't initially plan to showcase this page here on the blog, but I'm sure there are a lot of stampers that are struggeling with composition and are afraid that their images might get lost if they're too small compared to the whole project's size.

 

The background was an intuitive play with asemic writing, some acrylic paints and sprays as well as some stencils. The Buddha statue is a printed out image blended into the page with some more acrylic spray. If you print out things for using in your journals make sure its royality-free.

The page didn't look like street art to me at first sight, but a part of me wanted to add a Banksy stamp to it by all means. And while browsing through my stamps I came across the spraypainter and thought it would look great there, even if it is so small compared to the rest of the page. The quote that I stamped on my clean-up paper from the previous process was a perfect match.

Remember, there is no right or wrong in art. I'm just sharing a few tips that helped me making this page work:
- Play with contrasts. Not only regarding colors, but also with light and dark or contrasting shapes. This does not only refer to focal images, but also to the background itself. Here I used a black and white image (an uncolored stamp) against a colorful background.
- Decide where your focal point should be. I find it easier to place main elements near the edges of the page. Connecting them with the egdes helps them not to get lost, especially when you use smaller images on a larger page. I'm rarely creating a project that is completely focused to the center just because it is more difficult for me. Did you notice that on my page even the stenciled areas are touching the edges?
- Create a visual path. I'd bet the first thing that came to your eyes was the Buddha statue, just because it's heavily dominating the page. Then you recognize the spraypainter in the corner and move over to the quote and the rest of the page. The order in which you discover elements on this page is essential for my storytelling. You can influence this with contrast, size and placement of the elements you use.

Composition is not always easy and needs a little practice. You want to get a feel for that? Look at your older projects and focus on contrasts, where you placed elements and follow the visual path. Find out what you like and what makes you happy and remember those elements when you're creating something new.


Stamps used:
Banksy Spraypainter Boy (20452)
Banksy Look Mum I Am (19946)

Other material:
- Art Journal (Dina Wakley vlue edition)
- Acrylic paint Lukas (naples yellow, raw sienna, Indian yellow, titanium white, iron oxide black)
- Dina Wakley Gloss sprays (eggplant, night)
- Stencils (Finnabair - iris tapestry; TCW - woven)
- Printed image

- Versafine ink (nocturne)
- Posca paint pen (gold)


See you soon!


 

Thursday, January 23, 2020

If this is reality...

Hello everyone,

I'm Natalie and new to the design team. Hope to inspire you with my upcoming posts. Here's my first project to share with you. I recently started creating Memorydex cards and got kind of addicted with that. So I made one where I used the Banksy Dali stamp as my focal image.





To start I die cut the layers for the card from different paper. My base is a black cardstock, the middle layer is a gelli printed background I found in my stash and for the top layer I chose watercolor paper. I also stamped the Dali stamp on watercolor cardstock and cut it out.





To create the top layer of my card I smudged some Oxide Inks to a non-stick craft mat, added water and swiped my paper through the ink. I dried it between each color. I also did some background stamping with 'mesh texture' and 'writing triangles' in the same Oxides colors that I used before. 




I found this fantastic quote stamp which says "if this is reality I'm not interested". It had the perfect words but not the right size for my project. So I masked parts of the stamp and stamped word by word to rearrange the shape.





As a final step I glued my card layers on top of each other and added the Dali image that I cut out earlier.









I used the following stamps:

Banksy Salvador Dali Street Artist (19941)
If This Is Reality (19884)
Mesh Texture (19569)
Writing Triangles (19571)

Other materials:
- Studio Light Die cut stencil 153 (for Memorydex)
- Paper: black cardboard, gelli printed kraft paper, Canson watercolor paper
- Distress Oxide Inks: Cracked pistachio, Abandoned coral, Broken China
- Versafine Ink Onyx Black


See you soon! :) 




Friday, August 19, 2016

Presale! 4 Brand New Plates o' Rubber.

Presale on Four New Plates O' Rubber!
We've just released four brand new plates o' rubber ready for purchase at 20% off normal price.
$18.36 instead of $22.95 for a short time.

We also have two new stamp designers to introduce, so read on below!


We've got a brand new sketchy plate of fun, brought by
Tera Callihan (The Crafty Sugar Addict) and introducing
new rubber stamp designer Corrie Herriman. 
Tera has drawn the nurse, coffee boy, cat, bunny and flower shaped pieces,
while Corrie drew the circle & square background pieces.


Fortune Favors the Bold is a collection of vintage and hand drawn images
brought together in a plate all about riches, wishes, destiny and
creating your own story.


We've also got more street art & Banksy inspired images to share
with you, from Stop Wars & love bugs to Bears on Unicycles & David Bowie.


This last plate introduces our second new rubber stamp designer... Cat Kerr.
She is bringing some new vintage flavor to our designs along with
a great selection of words & sentiments.


If you are as inspired by our new designs as we are, hop on over to the site.

No need for a coupon code.
Just throw 'em in your cart and check out!



Thursday, August 04, 2016

Day Dreams of Paradise!

Hello Friends! 

Tera here...
Today I am here to share a pair of really fun ATC's

 (Artist Trading Cards) with you! 

For those of you whom know me personally, you know I am a dreamer...

I love the ocean, and my head is always in the clouds dreaming up ideas...
So this new stamp from VLVS spoke to my heart from the moment that I saw it!!! 



To create these ATC's I used the wrinkle free distress technique carefully building up each layer of color... I stamped my images in black archival ink and used a black ink pen to draw my boarder.  I also added a few flicks of some glimmer mist to give it that extra dreamy feel!


I can tell this little girl is a dreamer too!! 


Stamps Used:    

Seek Paradise 3/4 x 2 1/4


Thank you for stopping in to dream with me today!
I hope you find yourself dreaming of your paradise too! 




Friday, June 13, 2014