Colour wheel week: Art Journal

Hi, 
Another colour wheel day and complementary colours this time with  Gio and this beautiful Art Journal page. Look at all the details on there, how she did her journaling, the doodling on her sleeves and ring on her finger, the little heart on the camera lens... love it... 
What do you think? Have you tried Art Journaling yet?

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 An AJ page, with a bit of scrapbooking (I used a picture of me of 2010 Halloween). I used the complementary colours: Purple, Green and Orange.

I glued some pieces of torn book pages to the page with Claudine Hellmuth Multi Mediums Matte.

When dry I covered the background with Claudine Hellmuth Gesso spreading it with an old credit card. This add some texture to the page.

Once this is dry, I drew the camera tracing out the same credit card, then I coloured the page with TH Distress Ink and TH Distress Stains. I sprayed with water, I blotted with a wipe and I dried everything with the heat gun.

I painted the camera with TH Distress Inks using a Zig BrusH2O Waterbrush. I add some details with a permanent black pen. I put the picture on the page and I traced out the silhouette with a pencil and then with TH Distress Ink black soot and the waterbrush. 

I stamped the background with Andy Skinner stamps: Antiques using distress ink and Emerald Archival ink.

I stamped the journal with Crafty Secrets: Artsy Alphabet stamp and TH Distress ink Dusty Concord

I glued the picture to the background and I doodled it with a white permanent marker. I pat lightly here and there with Versamark ink pad and I sprinkled some Cosmic Shimmer Blaze Embossing powder: raspberry violet and I melted it with the heat gun, to add more texture.

I glued to the bottom of the page some torn gessoed pieces of old book page.

Andy Skinner acrylic stamps: Antiques

Artcoe Blue bell spiral cartrige book: short edge A5 

Claudine Hellmuth Multi Mediums Matte

Claudine Hellmuth Gesso

Crafty Secrets: Artsy Alphabet 

TH Distress Inks Dusty Concord, Black Soot, Forest Moss

TH Distress Stains Wild Honey 

Archival Ink Emerald

Versamark ink pad

Fantastic work, thank you Gio. 

See you tomorrow

Colour wheel week: tags

Hi,
Neil is your host today and made 3 beautiful tags in different colours to show you how different it can look depending on the colour, even if the image/stamp is the same...

I made 3 tags the same but in different colours 

1. Neighbouring colours

 Colours used: Purple, blue and green

I coloured the tag with Dusty concord, Stormy sky and Peeled paint Distress Atains and dried with a heat gun. I used Distress inks in the same colours to add cogs using the Tando mask. 

The main image and bottles were stamped with black archival ink. I inked up the compass and stamped it onto scrap before stamping onto the tag to create the background. I stamped the sentiment onto half a journal tag. 

The main tag and the journalling tag was distressed using the distress tool and the main tag was inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and the small tag with Peeled Paint Distress Stain and attached with a small brad.

2. Complimentary colours

 Yellow and purple

Dusty Concord and Scattered Straw. 

3. Triadic

Red, blue and yellow

Fired Brick, Faded Jeans and Scattered Straw.

Products used:

Distress stain - peeled paint, stormy sky, dusty concord, faded jeans and fired brick.

Distress ink; same colours as above plus walnut stain.

Stamps - Paperartsy HP1110

Tando mask - cogs

Tim Holtz journalling tags

Small brads

See you tomorrow

Colour wheel week

{{ SORRY, this should have appeared earlier in the week and for some reason, it did not... 

As I am still on holiday, I only saw it today. Hope you find it useful...

Izzy ...  }}

Hi,
This week, as part of our "back to basic" month, we are going to talk about colours and particularly how to use the colour wheel.
This is something a lot of crafters struggle with. I have had emails (through the Craft Barn or me personally) asking about colour balance and how to get it right. So hopefully, this week will help you a bit.

If you are one of those who struggle with the choice of colours, the best thing is to use a Colour Wheel. You can find them here on our website. Those wheel or colour guides will help you as they are the perfect aid to selecting, mixing and understanding colours.

In the meantime, the DT will show you samples throughout the week using different colour combinations, sometimes with the same designs/stamps so you can see how different it looks depending on your colour choice.

Here are a few facts about colours

Primary colours (red, yellow and blue) are the 3 basic pigment colours that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colours. All other colours are derived from these 3 hues.


Secondary colours (green, orange and purple) are the colours you will get by mixing the primary colours.


Tertiary colours (yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green) are the hues you will get by mixing a primary and a secondary colour.

Now to create something pleasing to the eye, here are a few tips. 

You can use analogous colours, also known as "neighbouring" colours.
They are any three colors which are side by side on a colour wheel. Usually one of the three colors predominates.

You can use complementary colours. Those are any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green , blue and orange, purple and yellow.

You can use triadic colours. Those colours are evenly spaced around the color wheel. Triadic colour harmonies tend to be quite vibrant so should be carefully balanced. It is best to let one colour dominate and use the two others for accent.


Tones, shades and tints
Those words are often confusing and used incorrectly so here's a bit of help...
A tint is when a colour is made lighter by adding white
A shade is when a colour is made darker by adding black .
And if grey is added, the result is a different tone.

I hope this will help you a bit in understanding colours and being more confident when you create. So why not giving it a go? Take your inks or paints out along with pieces of cards and have a play. You can keep those as swatches for reference (write the brand of ink or paint you have used as well as the name of the colours at the back...).

See you tomorrow