Artful August Day 27 - Animal

 Hello All.

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

 Hello Everyone.

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

 Hello All.

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

 Hello All.

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

 Hello All.

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

 Hi Everyone!

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

 Hello All.

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