28 Hearts and February Journal Recipe Finale

Hello All.

The February challenges have come to an end, and here are my Week 4 water colour hearts on teabags.

I'm going to continue making some kind of water colour art every day, for this year's 100 Day Project, which started a couple of weeks ago. So watch this space.

Now onto my 20th and final page for my February Journal Recipe Instagram collaboration with Shilpa, and today's prompts are...

Colour - Purple

Shape - Zigzag

Technique 1 - Use magazine text

Technique 2 - Paint some black circles

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks so much for visiting me today,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 19

 Hello Everyone.

I hope you're all having a lovely Sunday. I've just had a delicious lunch of fish and roast vegetables, cooked by my husband, whilst I was attending my church zoom service. I'm feeling very blessed 😊

It's Day 19, the penultimate day of my February Journal Recipe Instagram collaboration with my friend Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Orange

Shape - Blobs (Asymmetric round shapes)

Technique 1 - Cut colours from magazine pages and adhere

Technique 2 - Use a watercolour pencil or crayon (I used Stabilo Woodys)

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting me today,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 18

Hello All.

I hope you're having a good weekend so far. We had a lovely long walk with some good friends and their dog this afternoon. It's been a cold but beautiful sunny day, perfect for walking.

It's Day 18 of my February Journal Recipe Instagram collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts.

Colour - Green

Shape - Leaf shape

Technique 1 - Draw a face with your non-dominant hand.

Technique 2 - Make marks with any type of packaging.

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's your style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

 

February Journal Recipe Day 17

 Hello All.

It's Day 17 of my February Journal Recipe Instagram collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Sky Blue

Shape - Rhombus or Diamond

Technique 1 - Doodle in your shapes

Technique 2 - Add some scribble journaling

I used torn pieces of a security envelope, with the flower placed behind the envelope window.

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's your style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Before I go, here's Josie the tortoise. She came out of hibernation a couple of months ago, silly girl. Her brother Ollie is still sleeping.

And I noticed a heart shape on the tip of the wick of this tealight candle today.

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Friday!

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 16

 Hi Everyone.

I'm back today with my Day 16 page for my February Journal Recipe collaboration on Instagram.

Today's prompts are...

Colour - Copper

Shape - Star

Technique 1 - Apply paint and scribble in it with a pencil

Technique 2 - Add some white marks

The page started with collage of book pages and teabags, then my favourite Prussian Blue acrylic paint, applied with my finger. I added the focal round teabag with that sweet little Tim Holtz Paper Doll. The stars are stencilled with metallic copper acrylic, and I used a white Posca pen to outline and add dots.

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for all your lovely comments, I really appreciate them.

Hugs,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 15

 Hello All.

It's Day 15 of my February Journal Recipe collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Yellow

Shape - Crescent Moon

Technique 1 - Tear strips from a magazine or old book page, and glue to your page

Technique 2 - Scribble with a pen or pencil

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 14

 Hi Everyone!

It's Day 14 of my February Journal Recipe collaboration with Shilpa.

Here are today's prompts...

Colour - Silver

Shape - Flower

Technique 1 - Collage with tissue or teabag paper

Technique 2 - Add black or white dots

I used tissue, book page and teabag papers to collage, printed with a round plastic stitching aida and silver acrylic, added a couple of flowers that I drew with white pen on black card. I smeared some silver acrylic paint around the edges, added black paint pen dots, and some silver metal letters for the word. Those letters have been in my stash for a very long time! I knew they'd come in handy one day 😂

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey. Collage with teabags etc is one of my favourite styles to use.

Thanks for visiting me today.

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 13 and Week 3 of 28 Hearts

 Hello All.

It's Day 13 of my February Journal Recipe collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Navy Blue

Shape - Teardrops or Raindrops

Technique 1 - Apply paint with your fingers

Technique 2 - Make marks around border with pen or pencil

After gluing down some pieces of collage, I used my fingers to apply the Prussian Blue and Quinacridone Gold paint. I drew teardrops and outlined the page with black and white gel pens, then added my words. Oh yes, I also added some white paint splatters :D

I linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's your style theme at Art Journal Journey.

And here are my watercolour heart teabags for Week 3 of the 28 Hearts Instagram challenge...

Wishing you a great new week.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

February Journal Recipe - Day 12

Hello All.

It's Day 12 of my February Journal Recipe collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Gold

Shape - Hexagon

Technique 1 - Write 3 words how you're feeling

Technique 2 - Add drips of paint

 I'm linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Days 10 & 11

 Hello All.

If you were wondering what happened to my post yesterday, it was Storm Eunice. She swept across the Uk, affecting the South and South West mainly, with up to 120mph winds. We lost our power around midday, and didn't get it back until 9.10am today. It was a long, dark and cold night! We hardly slept as it was so cold, and this morning discovered a destroyed fence panel. It could have been a lot worse though. Luckily we have a gas oven, matches and plenty of candles. 

Here is yesterday's February Journal Recipe page (Day 10).

The prompts are...

Colour - Lavender

Shape - Use any symbol that has meaning for you. I used circles and numbers.

Technique 1 - Print with bubble wrap.

Technique 2 - Grab an object nearby and draw it's outline. I used an oblong paint palette.

I used watercolour paint for the background and focal image, and acrylic paint to print with the bubble wrap. I traced around my paint palette and outlined my focal with a Stabilo All black pencil, and activated it with water.

Todays prompts (Day 11) are...

Colour - Peach.

Shape - Irregular Polygon.

Technique 1 - Make some wavy lines.

Technique 2 - Draw some fish.

My fish are the 7 sided irregular polygons.

I'm linking up to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's your style theme at Art Journal Journey. Today's fish are a bit quirky, which is probably my style :D

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 9

Hello Everyone!

It's Day 9 of my February Journal Recipe Instagram collaboration with Shilpa, and today our prompts are...

Colour - Turquoise.

Shape - Scribbled Circles.

Technique 1 - Draw a quick self-portrait.

Technique 2 - Add paint splashes.

You must use a minimum of 3 prompts.

Here's what I came up with...

 If you follow my blog, you'll know that scribbles and paint splashes are my style, as well as quick faces occasionally. 

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

February Journal Recipe - Day 8

 Hello All.

It's Day 8 of my February Journal Recipe instagram collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Pink.

Shape - Oval.

Technique - Trace your hand.

Technique - Use string to paint.

You must use a minimum of 3 prompts.

Here's my page for the challenge...

My favourite style of art - Messy! I'm linking my page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting me today.

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 7

 Hi Everyone.

It's Day 7 of February Journal Recipe, my Instagram collaboration with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Purple.

Shape - Triangle.

Technique 1 - Use a face cut out of a magazine.

Technique 2 - Print with cardboard.

As before, you must use at least 3 prompts on your page.

Here's what I came up with...

This one was tricky, as I don't use purple very often, but it does look rather fab with the orange. For the triangles, I used a stencil, a piece of stamp carving rubber cut into a triangle shape, and I folded a piece of cardboard for the gold triangles. 

 I created the magazine lady a gown and hat, with pieces of a gel print and some gold trim. Then I used some text from a book page to finish.

I think you'll agree this is another page in my style (apart from the purple!), so I'm linking it to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for all the lovely comments you're leaving, I really appreciate them.

Alison

Week Two of 28 Hearts and Day 6 of February Journal Recipe.

 Hello All. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have another week of watercolour hearts on teabags to share with you today.

And it's also day 6 of February Journal Recipe, my Instagram collaboration with Shilpa.

We have some Valentine's Day prompts for you today...

Colour - Red

Shape - Heart

Product - Crayons

Technique - Stencils

You must use at least 3 prompts.

Here's my page ...

I used my gelli plate and a stencil to create the turquoise background, then used a red Portfolio oil pastel crayon through a Carabelle Studio hearts stencil, adding black pen outlines and scribbled writing. The Tim Holtz Paper Doll couple stand on some fabric collage fodder, with a Tim Holtz phrase sticker.

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 5

 Hello Everyone.

It's Day 5 of my February Journal Recipe Instagram collaboration challenge with Shilpa, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Orange.

Shape - Scallops.

Splash tea or coffee on your page.

Doodle with a pen or pencil.

You must use a minimum of 3 prompts on your page.

Here's my page for the challenge...

There are teabags in my background, and diluted coffee for the drips and splatters. I used a couple of my hand-carved stamps too, for the face of my lady and for the scallops. I had a lot of fun with this page, I think it's one of my favourites. My lady's hat and hair is a piece of sari ribbon.

I'm linking up to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting today,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 4

Hello All.

It's Day 4 of February Journal Recipe Instagram Challenge, and here are today's prompts...

Colour - Green

Shape - Use connected circles.

Paint some black marks.

Doodle a border around your page.

You should use a minimum of 3 prompts on your page, and have fun!

Here's my page for the challenge...

 This page started with a collage of mostly green pieces of gelprints. I used white acrylic and bubble wrap to print on the page, and used a lid to make the circles. I added some painted black marks, used magazine words for the title, then doodled around the edges.

It's another page in my style to link to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for the lovely comments you've all been leaving for these pages, they're very much appreciated.

Hugs,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 3

Hello Everyone.

Here are today's prompts for mine and Shilpa's February Journal Recipe Instagram challenge.

Colour - Blue

Shape - Use any shape that you see in your environment.

Scribble randomly on your page.

Use words cut from a book or magazine.

You must use at least 3 prompts if you want to join in.

And here's my page - 

I've got an 'X' shaped Xyron sticker maker on my desk, so that's my shape.

I'm linking my mixed media style page to Elizabeth's What's your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

February Journal Recipe Day 2

Hello All.

Today's prompts for February Journal Recipe are...

Colour - Yellow

Shape - Rectangle

Techniques - Apply paint with a lid

                      Splash water drips on your page

Here's my page.

 Yellow isn't a colour I use much, but I really like it combined with black and white. 

For the water drips, I painted the black rectangles, then added the water drips. I waited until the paint was nearly dry, then blotted the water. It takes practise to time it just right, but the resist effect is amazing.

Erika asked if I could run this challenge on blogland, but I don't know how to do that. If you do want to take part, just come back and leave me a comment, and I'll come and visit.

I'm linking my abstract style page to Elizabeth & Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for coming by today.

Alison

February Journal Recipe Instagram Challenge

 Hello Everyone. 

Towards the end of last year, my online friend Shilpa Nagaronkar asked me if I'd like to do an Instagram challenge collaboration with her. 

Shilpa and I have known each other for about 10 years, since we were on The Artistic Stamper design team. 

I agreed to the challenge at once, and came up with some prompts and a title. We decided to do a February challenge. Unfortunately, Shilpa got Covid in January, so we're a little late in starting, and today is Day One.

Day One's prompts are...

The colour red, 

Square shapes, 

Paint some lines, 

and Use watercolours.

If you use Instagram and you'd like to join in, the hashtag is februaryjournalrecipe.

Here's my page for Day One's challenge.

I made an abstract style page, and I'm linking it to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting me today.

Alison

28 Hearts Instagram Challenge 1-7

 Hello All.

I found an Instagram challenge for February, which just involves posting a heart a day. I decided to create 28 watercolour hearts, and I'm attaching them to my favourite round teabags. I've also added quotes inspired by Love Hearts sweets. 

Here are my first 7 hearts.

Thanks for dropping by today, have a great new week.

Alison