Artful August - Day 30 Nature and Day 31 Layers

 Hi Everyone.

Here are my final two pages for Rachel Greig's Artful August. 

Day 30 - Nature. This one took about 30 minutes in the end, although it doesn't look like it 😆

I really love that quote that I found online.

Day 31 - Layers. All sorts of layers, and Tim Holtz PaperDolls and word sticker. And this was a 15 minute page...just!

I'm linking this page to Wendy's Vintage theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for all your lovely comments on this challenge. Watch this space for the September ones, I found three! 😂

Alison

Artful August Day 28 - Fabric and Day 29 - Love

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Here's my Day 28 Fabric themed page for Rachel Greig's Artful August.

This page came together in 10 minutes! I put that lovely vintage chap on my page, so I'm linking up to Wendy's Vintage theme at Art Journal Journey.

And here's my Day 29 Love page. This one took 15 minutes.

Happy September!

Alison

Artful August Day 27 - Animal

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Here's my Animal page for Day 27 of Rachel Greig's Artful August Challenge. 

This is also my page for Week 34 of Raspberry Blue Sky's 52 Weeks Art Journal Challenge, with the theme 'Vacation'. Anything that involves hiking in the countryside, with lots of animals and birds to spot, is my kind of holiday.

I love sheep, so I decided to create some using my favourite technique with a wine cork and white paint. Just 7 cork marks, then details added with a black pen. 

The hills are made with some green/turquoise monoprints, and the sun with a yellow/orange monoprint. The sky was painted with turquoise acrylic, then 'clouds' printed with white acrylic and bubble wrap.

I used a black Stabilo All pencil to ground the sheep, and finished with a cut up Tim Holtz phrase sticker. I love that quote...I love to wander, and so do sheep!

By the way, I allowed myself 30 minutes for this page, if you're wondering 😁

I'm linking up with Neet's Type theme again at Art Journal Journey for one last time.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 26 - Collage

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Here's my 'Collage' page for Day 26 of Rachel Greig's Artful August Challenge.

A few different types of collage papers with different textures, a hand-sketched little plant, some Tim Holtz phrase stickers, and white and neon pink ink splashes. Another 15 minute page.

I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 25 - Home

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Here's my 'Home' page for Rachel Greig's Artful August challenge Day 25.

If you don't know the Paul Young song, then you'll be wondering what this has to do with 'Home'. It was originally recorded by Marvin Gaye the year I was born, 1962. But Paul Young recorded it in 1983 when I was 21, and it was a favourite song of mine back then. I sketched my favourite type of hat, big and floppy, onto a monoprint, cut it out and glued it onto a collaged and roughly painted page. Then I wrote the song title with a black Stabilo All pencil that I dipped into water.

I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Wishing you all a happy weekend,

Alison

Artful August Day 24 - Triangles

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Here's my Triangles page for Day 24 of Rachel Greig's Artful August challenge.

A 20 minute page today, I started by gluing down some torn triangle collage, then stamped the Darkroom Door houses with their triangular roofs. After I grounded them with the numbers, I had the idea to create the number triangles. I stamped the quote, added a little scribble writing, and decided it need some blue drips. I finished with neon pink and white ink splashes.

With all those different types of triangles, I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 23 - Butterflies

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Here's my Butterflies page for Rachel Greig's Artful August Day 23.

Believe it or not, this page only took 10 minutes! I had the collage and butterfly sheets nearby, so it was just a matter of cutting out the butterflies and glue sticking everything down onto my security envelope page. I finished with some black dotty marks and a cut up phrase sticker.

 I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 21 - Ocean

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Here's my Ocean page for Day 21 of Rachel Greig's Artful August challenge.

I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

Artful August Day 22 - Marks

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Here's my Day 22 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August Challenge, with the prompt 'Marks'.

Some collage, paint, stamping with my hand-carved stamps and paint, some scribbled writing, a word sticker, and red paint splashes.

A few different types of marks, definitely my type of page, and I'm linking to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 20 - Pattern

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Here's my Day 20 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August Challenge. The prompt is Pattern.

A 15 minutes page with collaged gel printed squares, black paint stencilling, some pieces of collage fodder, a Tim Holtz word sticker, and white and neon pink ink splatters. I had a bit of time left, so I used the pink ink to colour the flowers, and a little green paint for the leaves. That little piece of tea-dyed fabric was stamped with one of my hand-carved stamps.

I have a pile of brown packing paper that I saved, and whenever I have some leftover black paint, I tear off a piece and paint some marks on it. It makes fabulous collage fodder.

I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks so much for visiting. I really appreciate the lovely comments you leave too 😘

Alison

Artful August Day 19 - Bird

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Here's my Day 19 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August. The prompt is Bird.

Some different types of collage, and stamping with my own hand-carved stamps. Another quick 15 minutes page, although I confess the dotty outline was added after.

I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for popping by,

Alison

Artful August Day 18 - Words

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Here's my Day 18 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August. The prompt is Words.

Another 15 minutes page, with collage, paint, a few red paint brush marks, and some words stamped in paint with my own hand-carved stamps.

I'm linking up to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks so much for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 17 - Silhouette

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Here's my day 17 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August. Silhouette is the prompt.

A quick 15 minutes page with collage paint, stencilling, and a Tim Holtz phrase sticker. I'm linking up to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 16 - Torn

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Here's my page for Rachel Greig's Artful August Day 16, with the prompt 'Torn'.

I've got some different types of gel prints on this page, and my stamped and torn word, so I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey. Used the neon pink acrylic ink again for some bright splashes.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison 

Artful August Day 15 - Food

 Hello Lovelies.

Here's my Day 15 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August, with the prompt Food. I went a couple of minutes over the 15 on this page, as I decided to add the words.

So what have I got for Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey today? Well, there are a few different types of collage, magazine page, dress pattern instructions, teabag papers, patterned paper, and corrugated card. And there are two types of paint, acrylic and watercolour.

Artful August Day 14 - Small

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Here's my day 14 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August, with the prompt Small. Another 15 minute page.

I'm linking this page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey, there are a few different types of media on this page, ink, pencil, paint and collage.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 13 - Rainbow

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Here's my day 13 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August, with the theme Rainbow. I think this was just a 10 minute page.

There's some 'type' on the collage in the background, and some asemic writing, a different type of text, so I'm linking to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey. There's also different types of colours, cool and warm.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 12 - Squares

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Here's my day 12 page for Rachel Greig's Artful August, with the prompt Squares.

A few different types of squares here for Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey, including one of my hand-carved stamps. 

This was another 15 minute page. 'Do be do' 😄

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

Artful August Day 11 - Flowers

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Here is my Day Eleven 15 minute page for Artful August, with the prompt Flowers.

Some different types of flowers, and types of text, so I'm linking up to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Artful August Day 10 - Lines

 Hello Lovelies.

Here's my Day 10 page for Artful August with the prompt 'Lines'.

There are a few different types of media, collage, ink, pencil and paint, plus the 'type' on the found text, so it's another page I can link to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison