Art and crafting by Rebecca Davies-Sandall. Art journaling, Spectrum Noir Design Team, Crafters Companion, paper crafting, mixed media, stamping and more.
Here is another art journal entry featuring exclusively only Sheena Douglass stamps from her A Little Bit Magical range. I hope you enjoy the video and that it inspires you
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So I had a lot of fun playing with the Pebeo goods that I’ve been collecting and wanted to put the fantasy paints to good use! Here’s some crazy heart shaped flower I painted, plus I then went on to make another two to match!
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This was briefed as “a time of the day” and my favourite has to be sunrise in the morning. Aquatints were the best choice for getting a nice background down. I then used stencils by Sheena Douglass to build up a line of trees that the sky could shine through. At first I wasn’t sure what to stencil with and thought about modelling paste, acrylic paint, etc. In the end I remembered I had these nice embossing powders that are sort of black but one shines green and the other shines red making a lovely effect for this.
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My challenge today was “your favourite colour” but I don’t really have a favourite. Sometimes it’s purple so I went with that and also I wanted to include a cheeky picture of me. This layout features Aqua Tints, gelatos, distress ink, modelling paste, gilding wax, liquid pearls, liquid glass, papers by Craftwork Cards, stencil by Sheena Douglass, clear hologram embossing powder by Wow and more.
The sparkly hologram embossing powder creates a resist from the water colours but stamping with distress ink instead of embossing ink accents the purples in the sparkles.
I am liking this liquid glass but I still like glossy accents.
I’ve been playing with my Aqua Tints by Spectrum Noir (super awesome liquid watercolours) and have been inspired by Sheena Douglass to create my own set of technique tags. A lot of these were suggested by Sheena on her colouring DVD and YouTube channel but I have added some other techniques from here and there. I’d like to keep adding to this page when I do more! The tags used are Craftwork Cards Essentials Tags.
From left to right: original colour, mixed with white (opaque goache), mixed with black (tint)
Mica paints: mixed with silver (more silver), mixed with gold (less gold)
Mica resist using Sheena’s stencil with gold and then washing colour over
Pastel layers using two layers of pastel blocks allowing to dry in between layers
Using glycerine and cut ‘n’ dry foam to blend colours
Salt technique: add salt to wet colours and leave to dry
Brayering: two colours added one at a time with brayer, also distress ink around edge
Gesso surface: colour painted on top, also flicked water to create faux bleaching
Sponging with kitchen sponge
Cling Film wrinkles with silver
White stamping top layer
Marbling by dragging through colours but needs to include white
White top layer over coloured layer
My brief this time was ‘your favourite animal’… as a bit of a cat lady that was easy. Whilst mesmerised by my cats eyes I wanted to know how realistically I could recreate a cat’s eye on paper. Their eyes look as though they are made from layers of cosmic realms with crackles and encapsulated in a crystal clear top layer. Having practised in my art journal I know I’ll by doing this again. I’m very satisfied with the results.
Ingredients for the Eye
Ingredients for the rest of the page
I love the amazing depth of the specialist paints for the eye and the two-tone colours of the letters!
