Willa Wanders' Fodder Challenge 2022 - Days 1- 5

 Hi Everyone.

Wendy Solganik's Fodder Challenge started last week, Tuesday I think. Anyway, I'm up to Day 5, so I thought I'd share my projects so far.

Day 1 - Peace Catcher with Lucie Duclos. I gifted this to a friend for her birthday.

Day 2 - Gelli Prints to finished art pieces with Drew Steinbrecher.

Day 3 - The Study of Shapes with Julie Hamilton. There is some fabric on these, the dotty green and black circles and leaves.

Day 4 - Paper Weaving with Rebecca Sower. I stitched it to some watercolour paper. Think I may have to frame it :-)

Day 5 - Luggage Tags with Liz Constable. The tags were dyed and stamped with coffee before I decorated them.

I hope you like these, I'll share some more pieces in a few days time.

Alison 

AJJ - Spring

 Hello All.

I have another page to share for Valerie's Spring theme at Art Journal Journey.

This started off as a gelprint for GelliArts' March Printing Challenge over on Instagram. The prompt was sunshine. I've used my hand-carved foliage stamp on the print, and I used my circle stamp on the edges of the background. The little house is one of a series of watercolours for The 100 Day Project, and I used some book text for the words. 

Below, you should be able to see the gold watercolour that I used on the house and the sun.

Thanks for visiting me today.

Alison

GJJ - Days 29 & 30

 Hello All.

Here are my final two pages for Gratitude Junk Journal.

Day 29 - Gratitude for Doodles with Sandy Allnock.

For this spread I used watercolour paint, graphite and Stabilo All black pencils, and a black pen.

I got very engrossed in making all of the lines and marks. It was a very calming exercise.

Day 30 - Gratitude for Courage with Janette Simmons.

Gel-printing, collage, stencilling, lots of layers, mixed media - This was my kind of art!

Thanks so much to all of you who followed my Gratitude Junk Journal journey. I really enjoyed Tiare Smith's course.

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend.

Alison

More Life Book Art

 Happy Sunday Everyone!

Here are a few more pieces of Life Book art.

Holly McLaughlin - Mindful Art. I'm not really into meditation in art, but I did enjoy creating this abstract piece, and adding all of the marks.

Emma Petitt - This class blew me away. Using a magazine image for reference, we painted in the shading first in a very abstract way, then added the facial outlines and details. I love how this turned out, and I'll try this technique again. I had to add some splashes of paint, just to make it my own 😉

Dyan Reaveley - Art Journaling with Prompts. On top of a simple painted background (I used a Gelli Plate to create mine), we cut some small phrases from magazines, then wrote in some thoughts relating to them. To hide the journaling a little, I created a flap, and added some of my hand-carved stamp creatures. I'm linking this page to Tracey's My Favourite Colour Is October theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Alison

Art Journal Calendar - May 2021

 Hello All!

We've had a mixed bag of weather here today. Fortunately, it was fine until late afternoon. I went walking with Hubby on the golf course first thing, and then with my Mum and Dad and our River Walkers group later in the morning. I love the river walk, especially now with all the river birds having their chicks. Here are the Egyptian Geese and Coot families. Aren't they adorable?!

Back to the title of my post. Here is my May art journal calendar spread. I'm linking it to Elle's Language theme at Art Journal Journey. I think the theme of my spread could be the language of colour, as I do love my brights. I've also used PaperArtsy script stamps on the tickets, and scribble journaled around the edge of my spread. Or maybe it's the language of those two birds, chatting away at the bottom of the page.

I used my Gelli Plate with PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic paints to make the colourful background, and the tickets were sprayed with pink Dylusions ink.

I used some Dina Wakley stamps, and also one of my hand-carved stamps. It's our birthdays and anniversary month in May, so I used a couple of Dina's bird stamps for us lovebirds 😍 It'll be our 30th anniversary next week.

Before I go, here is my April spread with those Easter eggs all filled out with daily walks and lots of arty time.

Thanks for visiting me today,

Alison xox

GelliArts March Printing Challenge - Days 24-31

 Hello All. Happy April!

I have my final few March mono-prints to share with you today. 

It's been a fun challenge, and has inspired a few of my hand-carved stamps in March. The elephant is one of my favourites.

Thank you for all of your lovely comments on my prints over the last month, they're very much appreciated.

Alison xox

GelliArts March Printing Challenge - 18-23

Hello All.

I have a few more gel prints to share with you today. As usual, the daily themes are top left of each photo.

 

Those hand-carved stamps have been useful again. I carved the 'love is' right way round to work with my gel plate, and I need to do one wrong way round to stamp with.

Hope you're all having a good week. 

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

GelliArts March Printing Challenge - Days 8-17

 Hello Everyone! Happy St. Patricks Day to you all!

I thought I'd bring you up to date with my gel prints for GelliArts March Printing Challenge.

My favourite one has to be 'Beach' this week. I'm so happy with how that one turned out. You never know what you're going to get with a mono-print. Can you see the huge waves crashing in from the left of the print?

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox