Joy

Happy Easter Saturday Everyone!

There's still some joy to be had, despite all the doom and gloom. Sitting in my garden every morning, listening to the birds almost drowning out the distant motorway traffic, brings me a lot of joy.

And a new technique to me, using a pipette to mix water into acrylic paint, then dropping it from a height to create splatters, gave me a lot of joy. Here's another page for Valerie's Geometric Shapes theme at Art Journal Journey.

I've only one more blank page left in my Dina Wakley art journal, and you can see how the ink dripped down that steep slope. Lol!

Wishing you joy,

Alison xox

Be Still My Beating Heart

Morning my lovelies! I have another art journal page to share today, for Elizabeth & Bleubeard's Heart theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used a canvas page in my Dina Wakley art journal. I scraped on some white acrylic, then added the green colour with Faber-Castell markers, blending them with a wet paintbrush. 

Then I added some marks with Posca paint pens. I handcut some different sized hearts from gel prints, outlined with scribbly black lines, and journaled in the centre with a black Posca pen then a white gel pen. 

The shadow around the large heart was made using a black Posca paint pen, then blended out with a wet paintbrush. I finished with some splatters and multiple date stamping.

Wishing you all a happy and creative week,

Alison xox

Where There Is Love...

Happy new week!

I was glad to get back to my art journal today. It's been a bit neglected lately, due to all sorts of things. I created a page for Elizabeth & Bleubeard's Heart theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used a canvas page in my Dina Wakley journal, using DW acrylic paints also. I added doodled collage hearts & circles, and some marks and hearts made with paintbrushes and black & turquoise DW acrylic. I finished with black posca paint pen splatters, and a DW stamped quote.

I hope you all have a creative Monday,

Alison xox

Art Journal Journey - Words & Numbers

Hello everyone! I have an art journal page to share with you today, for Yvonne's Words & Numbers theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used some collage materials I had lying on my desk, including part of a Christmas cracker that my friend Jan gave me. After adding some white gesso, stencilling and stamping of dots, I wrote a quote from a beautiful book that my son gave me for Christmas, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. The pen and ink illustrations, and the words on love, friendship and kindness are simply stunning.

Love & Blessings,

Alison xox

Grateful

Hi Everyone! Dina Wakley has a new monthly 'Gratitude' challenge on the RangerInk blog, and this month it's being grateful for small things. As you can see on my page, I'm grateful for a good journaling pen. I just bought some Uniball Gel Impact pens, which seem really good on my painty gel print page.

I'm also linking my page to Erika's Polkadots, Stripes, Plaids or Patterns theme at Art Journal Journey.

Wishing you all a happy Wednesday,

Alison xox

AJJ - Anything With Eyes

Morning Folks!

Here's another page for Gill's Anything With Eyes theme at Art Journal Journey.

A layer of gesso, then DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics blues and green gold, then face sketched with Dina Wakley Night Scribble Stick, activated with a wet paintbrush. Finished with black Bombay India Ink scribbles and outlines, then splashes of black ink and white Posca Paint Pen.

I'm linking up to Try It On Tuesday's Splatters and Splodges challenge also.

Wishing you all a creative Monday,

Alison xox