Friday, April 3, 2015

Art is...


Nothing better than when I get to just play in my Art Journal.. When I made my other little flip out journal. I had this one open to rub off the DecoArt Andy Skinner code breaker stencil. I was using the DecoArt Media Line Black Gesso and I had it all over the stencil so I just kept going with it on each side of this background. I always seem to have a few things going at once. The blue background was rub offs from another stencil page I did. I then thought hmm think I feel like doing some stamping today and I have hardly used the terrific grab bag of stamps I got from Teesha Moore. So I stamped the girl and coloured her in with Dylusions and my waterbrush. Fussy cut her out and stuck her on. The wording across the top of her is a stamp from Teesha too it says. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. Then I grabbed one of the artstronauts collage sheets and matched some colours cut and pasted. I love trees, so popped that one on and then just took a pen and drew it off the piece of collage onto the page. Added some swirls to the little blue heart with my Gelli roll pen to make it sparkly. Then I just did some doodling with my black Pilot pen. Used the white signo uniball for some dashes.. Wrote the quote that I thought suited the page. Quote says "Art is not what you see but what you make others see." So more fun with some coloured pencils too.  Just for a bit more blue here and there and even a bit of shading with some Neocolour II around the girl. Liked the way it looks a bit sketchy around her. 

Going to pop this over at Paint Part Friday.
Joining in also at Balzer Designs
I was asked so nicely to join this blog post over at Art Journal Journey so popping a link in there.. 

Happy Easter 
Sandy :)

14 comments:

  1. Lovely journal pages. You would be welcome to link to our challenge at Art Journal Journey, this would fit there really well! Valerie
    http://art-journal-journey.blogspot.de/

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  2. fantastic . Happy PPF!
    You can link to
    ART-JOURNAL-JOURNEY-CHALLENGE
    as well since we have favourite poems and quotes there this month..
    would be great to welcome you there!
    xxx
    Susi

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  3. Ooh love that quote...so true...beautiful pages!

    Hugs Giggles

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  4. So glad you followed our invitation and joined us at Art Journal Journey, hope to see you there again with more beautiful pages! Valerie

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  5. This is really lovely and I may need to borrow that quote - it's fab!!

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  6. Oh my such detail in this one. Gorgeous work

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  7. Thank you for linking Sandy! Welcome to Art Journal Journey Challenge - hope to see you more often in the future!
    xxx
    Susi

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  8. love this journalpage, and the limited use of colours.

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  9. Love the journal pages and the quote is perfect !

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  10. Wow, love your journal pages. They are gorgeous!!

    Have a great day!
    Nora

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  11. What fun! It is great to see how you used Teesha's stamps. I have a slew of them and was about to sell them because I hardly ever use them.. I might just change my mind.

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  12. What fabulous pages! Love the great quote too. Great job!

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Thank-you for the lovely comment..