Weekend Art

Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you. Today I have an art post because I want to share some recently made pieces, especially a tag for Michele's theme at Tag Tuesday before that challenge ends. 

I'll start with a new page in my journal for Wendy's Above Us Only Sky at Art Journal Journey.

Today's page started with me using up some extra clear sparkle paint. The paint dries clear but these cool sparkles are left behind. It does create some fun texture, and even better since I got the bottle for under a dollar on a markdown table. (Now I wish I had bought a couple more at the price they were.) 😏

After the paint dried,I  randomly inked my page with a blue ink pad and added  some punch out images. I thought the gear clusters were shaped like clouds, so I used the 2 that were in the booklet. One I used whole, and the other one I snipped in half. After I glued them down I took some white gesso and sponged it on them. I wanted them to look like clouds with gears in them. Once the gesso dried I took a black Stabilo pencil as well as a wet paintbrush and made the cloud border. After that I glued down the planes and also the quote. That quote came from the same punch out book.

As I mentioned, I also have a tag to share for Michele's challenge at Tag Tuesday. Her theme is Farm Animals. 

I used a chicken die and some black paper to make these silhouette hens. The background  sky is inked with 2 shades of blue, and the ground is a piece of brown packing paper that I marked up with a brown colored pencil.   I freehand painted the sun and the clouds. Then I stamped the quote using a birthday stamp set, and since they used the word spring, I created some flowers using  dots of pink paint and a green marker for the stems along the horizon line. 

And finally, just to share but not for any particular challenge, here's the front and the back of the letter A in my Christmas alphabet book. This is the project  made in the old phone directory. 

I went with A for the admit one ticket I added. Since it's the first page, you are now admitted to see the rest of the book.

Here's the back. I was very disappointed that the gold marker I had used on the cups smeared when I used some matte media to attach the cups and the teapot to my page.  But I was not so disappointed  that I went and redid them. Perhaps the tea drinkers were just messy and the gold paint they'd been crafting with was still wet on their fingers when they went to grab a cup of tea. When they went to wipe it off the china it just smeared everywhere. (And I can't say that has ever happened to me-grin 😏.)

Maybe I should splatter some gold paint to make it less obvious? What do you think?

Now you 're familiar with A, B and C. There's a whole lot of letters left to go.

That's all for me today. Have a great weekend.