In With The New

 Hi everyone.  

It's hard to believe the holidays have come and gone, and it is time to start another year of challenges at Try It on Tuesday. Congrats to all our spotlight artists. Next week we will post the top for 5 for our snowflake challenge which ran before the holidays.

Our first in 2022  challenge is 

IN WITH THE NEW!

It's time to try something new. Perhaps a new technique, some new stamp(s) or media, a new style, or something you've been wanting to do but  haven't yet.

My something new was some Hero Arts liquid inks used with some Dina Wakely spray paint. The spray paint wasn't new, but the inks ( a gift from a friend) and the inks used with the spray paint were.

I put some drops of ink on my water color paper and then sprayed the page with water to spread out the inks. I wondered what would happen if I sprayed some paint onto the page while the inks were still wet, and when I did that I created this background that reminded me of a bright night sky.  There might even be a bit of the northern lights going on here too. 

I stamped an evergreen tree several times in black along the bottom of the page, and I also used a stamp to create the moon. I colored in the center circle  of the moon with some watered down iridescent white  paint. I also stamped the snowman and his pup on some paper; then after coloring and fussy cutting them, I added them to some white space at the bottom of the page. I also stamped the "snowflakes" around the snowman and the quote, using a bit of paint pen for each snowflake.

I must say I like these Hero Arts liquid watercolors. The colors stayed bold when sprayed with water, and I like how I can spray them to create these spontaneous backgrounds. I know you could spray with a puddle of regular watercolors also, but since these are liquid to start with, you can get a really large spray area if you use a big drop.

All forms of art are accepted at Try It On Tuesday, and this challenge will run for 2 weeks. Don't forget to visit the other designer's blogs too. There's lots of great inspiration there also.

As my journal page also has the snowman's and the snowdog's faces on it, I am linking up to this month's challenge at 

Art Journal Journey.  That new challenge  is Let's Face It.

Thanks for visiting my page. I hope your new year is going well.