Wanderlust Live Day 3 with Iris Fritschi-Cussons

 Hello All.

I've been a very bad blogger lately, although I have been making art, and continuing with the Wanderlust Live free taster sessions. They are still available on the Everything Art website if you want to jump in. 

Did I mention that I recently had a holiday in Derbyshire, and the Everything Art shop was in the next town? I had to visit of course, and I met a lovely lady called Rachel that I met through Instagram there. And we also met the talented owner Kasia Avery, who is every bit as lovely as she appears in her videos. It was definitely a highlight of the holiday. Well that and the badgers we saw each night outside of our cottage 😊 😍 We stayed on a farm, and the farmer put out peanuts for the badgers every evening.

Anyway, I digress! Here is an intuitive art journal page I made for Iris Fritschi-Cussons' second Wanderlust Live class.

I'm linking this spread to Try It On Tuesday's Autumn challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

365 Somethings 268-275

 Hello All.

Here are my latest two sets of mini collages for the 365 Somethings challenge.

Days 268-271

Did you spot that I used some pieces cut from the watercolour flowers pages that I made in Wanderlust live recently? Francisca suggested cutting them up to use on our art.

Days 272-275

The wonky black circles on these are a Crafty Individuals stamp.

Thanks so much for visiting and leaving your lovely comments on these little collages. I really appreciate it.

Alison xox

October Art Journal Calendar

 Hello friends.

Today I'm sharing my art journal calendar for October.

I started by gluing down some torn 7 Gypsies patterned paper and book pages to my pages, placing a piece with 'Life Is Good' in the bottom right corner. I added a light layer of gesso to this. Then I stamped some Stampin Up gears with Ranger archival sienna ink.

I found a piece of Tim Holtz red paper from his Christmas patterned paper pad, and brayered some PaperArtsy Cherry Red Fresco acrylic paint on to make it a deeper red. I cut out 31 1.5 " squares for journaling, and stamped gears and clock faces on them in Sienna ink.

When I was gluing down my red squares with gel medium, a happy accident occurred, the sienna ink bled and turned my background a lovely rusty colour 😁

I stencilled my title using a PaperArtsy stencil and Cherry Red Fresco acrylic, then added outlines and numbers with a black gel pen.

I'm linking my October Calendar to Neet's In Gear theme at Art Journal Journey.

Finally, here's my completed September calendar.

Thanks for dropping by. Have a wonderful October.

Alison

Wanderlust Live Day Two

 Hi Everyone.

I have a few more projects from the Wanderlust Live weekend to share today.

First up is a pile of gel-printed collage fodder created with Iris Fritschi-Cussons. 

This was a fun exercise, using printer paper, book pages, tissue, teabags and a brown paper bag, acrylic and watercolour paint, Stabilo Woodys water-soluble crayons, pens and pencils.

Next I created a mixed media tag art journal spread with Arlyna Blanchard.

We created beautiful loose watercolour flowers with Francisca Nunes.

And finally for today, we created space for our inner light with Christine Karpiac.

There are more classes from the weekend I haven't yet done, so watch out for those.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Alison xox

365 Somethings 260-267

 Hello All.

Here are another two sets of mini collages for the 365 Somethings challenge. My bases are roughly cut from cereal boxes and are roughly ATC size.

Days 260-263

Days 264-267

Thank you so much for visiting today.

Alison

Wanderlust Live Day One

 Hi everyone.

I've been catching up with Everything Art's Wanderlust Live Weekend, a weekend of free arty lessons on YouTube with some of the teachers from Wanderlust 2024, which was launched for registration a couple of weeks ago.

Here is my art from Day One.

Mini Abstracts with Nicki Traikos

 

Colour Play with Christine Karpiac

Peaceful Pages with Nicole Warrington - These are just watercolour backgrounds at the moment. I may do some journaling on them eventually.

Thanks for visiting.

Have a great weekend,

Alison

365 Somethings 252-259

 Hello all.

Here are my latest two sets of mini collages for the 365 Somethings challenge.

Days 252-255

Days 256-259

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison