Stand Alone and Make it Count By Amanda Southern

Hi Everyone

I have an art journal double page spread in my Dylusions art journal to share with you today, and I've thrown everything at this one.............

Here's What I did:

The first layer of these pages is to just lay down colours of your choice in an haphazard way, add anything you want to it stencilling, stamping, flicks whatever you want as this will be what shows through on your masked figures.

Once you are happy with that lay the masked images over the top and with Cut & Dry Foam work around the masks with a paint colour of your choice, I've gone for a dark midnight colour. To make the group I taped the masked figures together before blending paint around them, the fiddliest bits were where a couple of them have separate heads. With the masks left in place I then continued to ad further stencilling.

To add the Stand Alone statement I stamped in white paint using Tim's foam alphabet stamps and then used them as my guide. You can see that I have added lots of doodling with a white paint pen. Shading on my images and letters has been added using scribble sticks and just blended using a damp finger. 

Just some close ups to show you how the layers have built up.

Lots of flicks of paint and torn washi tape pieces have also been added and then my words finished off by typing them out on my old typewriter. 

Here's what I Used:

Art Journal - I used Dylusions journal

Dina Wakley Funky Silhouettes Stencil

Dina Wakley Stamps  -  Scribbled text Elements & Assorted Borders

Tim Holtz Layering Stencils -  THS102, THS006 & Splotches

Dina Wakley Heavy Body Paints - White, Night, Sky, Ocean

That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints - White, Red, Yellow

Cut & Dry Foam       

Tim Holtz Foam Alphabet - Lowercase Cut Out

Dylusions Paint Pens - Black & White

Washi Tape - Dina Wakley Sets

Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks  

Old Typewriter

The thing about an art journal is that it is yours and you can do whatever you want in it, if you have never tried art journaling why not give it a go, anything goes!

See you all next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X