Hi everyone. I hope you're having a good weekend. Last night we changed the clocks (spring ahead), and so today I will probably be all out of whack. 😂 The light evenings are going to be great though, and it means we're on our way to better weather. 👍 (Hopefully soon.)
Today I am joining lots of different challenges with some spring themed art. It is Sunday so I'll be joining Nicole for Sunday in the Art Room (also known as SITAR). I'm also joining Gillena for her Sunday Smiles . I have a journal page so I'll be joining Chris for her Spring Forward challenge over at Art Journal Journey. And last but never least, I have a spring flower tag so I'll be joining Tag Along (and ATCS) for Lynn's Spring Flowers challenge.
My journal page today is definitely a mixed media piece. My inspiration started with this set of metallic stickers with a couple of children and lots of kites. I'm not sure why kites always make me think of March and spring, but they do.
Besides the stickers, I also used some paint. I started by inking the background with a blue ink pad. Then I used some blue watercolor paint over it to brighten it up a bit more. The paint also covered in all the little spots that the ink pad missed.
I wanted the children to be flying their kits in a grassy field. and I didn't want them to be way down at the bottom so my page would be all sky. I placed them part way up the page. At this point they were floating in the sky. 😉 Then I used 3 colors of green acrylic paint and painted "stripes" to represent the grasses. The beauty about metallic stickers is while the paint is wet you can wipe it off the image, and even when it dries, you can lightly scrape off any little bit you don't want. I also covered up the foot on each person who was standing in the ground because my stripes made the grass look long, and therefore their standing foot wouldn't be showing.
It didn't look exactly right at this point, so I used some green paint and painted a few horizontal stripes to create the actual ground. When I was doing a bit of watercolor splatter on the other page of this journal spread, I accidentally got a bit of red-brown paint on this one, but I don't mind that. In fact, I'm happy with the way my ground came out. Making grass come out is a trickier process than it seems.
I colored the kites with Sharpies and added a couple of other kite stickers. I used some slightly watered down white acrylic paint to make the white clouds, and I cut the blue clouds out of a sheet of paper. I outlined those clouds with a black Sharpie. The sun is also a metallic sticker from another sheet, and I used Sharpies to color in the face.
To finish off my page I stamped the main quote from a TH set, and I pulled off a quote and mini butterfly stickers from the same sticker set as the kites and added them to the grass. It's hard to read that quote but it says laugh and play. Finally, to pull it all together, I used some of the same blue watercolor paint I used for the sky and lightly splattered it on the background and I used some more watered down white acrylic paint for a second light splatter.
Now that was a long explanation. Sorry. 😏 Here's my tag that I will be linking a up to
Tag Along (and ATCS).
I started with an old black tag from my stash. The right side was a bit rough so I used a black Sharpie on the edge to cover up where the black had worn off.
Then I experimented and took some iridescent ink pads and rubbed them directly on the tag. I then let the ink on the tag dry for a few days.I really like the sheen that they created
When the ink was dry, I fussy cut some spring flowers from some 49 and Market paper and added them. I then added a punch out letter from a set from Stamperia (I think). I die cut the green clover using an old Quickkutz die. I inked the clover to give it some depth and drew in the details. I then added some metallic paper items. They include the gold clover, the pink flower border and also the yellow chick. I did a bit of coloring on the chick to bring out the details. Finally I stamped the quote in white from an old clear stamp set, but since I don't have the paper labeling any longer, I am not sure who made it.
That's all for me. I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend and have a super start to the new week.
15 comments:
The Province of British Columbia just announced that it is switching to permanent Daylight Savings Time. I suspect that more jurisdictions will follow, although I have never been able to understand the fuss over one hour. All the best - David
That tag is fab! I love the deep color and the flowers. We don't change our clocks until later in the month, but that will mess me up too. I never have a problem with the autumn time change, but always do with the spring one. Then again, spring depresses me so maybe it's just another part of that. Enjoy your day!
...an early taste of spring arrived here, I hope that it has for you too!
Loved the children playing with their kites in the grass. This is ne awesome entry for Chris's theme at AJJ.
What a stunning tag. There's something about black and metallic. They pop! This is beautiful.
Good morning, I love your art and the kites brought back fond memories of my childhood-happy new week
Hopefully, warm temps this week will melt the snow and get us to the joy of Spring depicted in your page and tags. Enjoy the rest of your weekend
I just caught up on your posts from the past few days, and really enjoyed them. I especially liked your post about Richard Halliburton, whose books were my favorites when I was around 12 years old. Last summer, I finally visited the Acropolis and other ancient sites that were covered in his books, a kind of lifelong dream (though not obsessive). My post:
https://maefood.blogspot.com/2025/09/richard-halliburton-and-acropolis.html
Beautiful art pieces, both of them! You are very creative at devising how to use mixed media! I have a set of coloured Sharpies too and love them. They come in handy for a whole bunch of stuff.
The last tag is my favourite.
Happy Sunday
Thank you for linkkng to SundaySmiles
Much love
Lovely page and tag! -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
You are right about each day having a story. This piece of art has several stories that I can see. Sending Smiles is a brilliant piece of art. You managed to create rich full colors. I really love this. Thank you for sharing with SITAR and have a nice Sunday.
These are fun. The children playing really makes me smile!
You are right, the texture and "feel" of grass is hard to capture.
...and I meant to add, but you did a nice job of it.
I love how you use multiple kinds of art to complete the whole journal page and the Tag. Both are awesome and yet very different. I think my fav is the Tag as it seems to have so much debth and I love the flowers. Little chickens and bunnies are showing up in the stores already as Easter is only 4 weeks away ... and that means Spring to me. I can't wait for the fresh air and warm sunshine :)
As for Daylight Savings Time ... I lose an hour of sleep and I don't like that part. But, I like having daylight later in the evening ... gives me more time to enjoy the birds and the soon to be blooming flowers. Nice post, Erika ...
Andrea @ From the Sol
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