Hi everyone. Happy weekend.
Today I am sharing art for Tracey's latest challenge at Art Journal Journey and also a piece for Elizabeth's
Second on the Second challenge.
Here's my second look piece. I went for Halloween this time, since I always enjoy making a "fun" scary page. (I am really a big chicken when it comes to real scary.-smile)
This first journal page is from 2017 in my Halloween altered book. It's a little bit dark, but not meant to be scary. I know some of you are not into Halloween at all, and me, I like it in a fun, vintage way. Here's the original link: White Crows.
Here's a how I made my page as I wrote about in this post: So my art today is my brain on the dark side. Or the nighttime side at least. I created this textured background with some modeling past, printed tissue paper, painted deli wrap, dark paper tape and some watered down down black paint.
So I was going for opposites and made my crows albinos. Ghost crows if you'd like.
And this next piece is a new page I made awhile back.
This page is for Tracy's AJJ My Favorite Colour is October challenge. It is from my garden journal.
October doesn't have to be about foliage colors. With the cooler, less humid air, the sky can also be so blue in October. Of course the squirrels are always busy with their acorns too.
This piece began as one of the denim pages in my book that I painted this brighter blue. There is some stenciling and stamping on it. I then went on to add a thin piece of blue and white paper as well as some vintage lace (a bit embellished with a small white pearl in each whirl), an embossing powder embossed leaf (made last fall from a leaf I picked up off the ground), some stamped fussy cut and colored acorns, as well as a quote block. The squirrel was a bit of a project, as when it was stamped on the background, it was rather hard to see clearly. The white part is the original stamped in pigment ink. Then I stamped the squirrel with Staz On ink a second time on acetate, fussy cut it and overlaid that over my white squirrel. I actually like the 2 tones of Mr. Squirrel now. The leaf branch is a die cut/embossing folder that was made with white paper and inked with a gold ink pad.
I know you wouldn't find lace during a walk in the forest, but I did like how it looked on the page. I like to think of the lace as some white fall wildflower like perhaps asters that we have here in NH.
I hope your new month is going well for you, at least for these 2 days. Have a great start to the weekend and, as always
thanks so much for stopping by my blog.
