Street Art

Street Art

Hi there!

Hope your week is on track.

I'm supposed to be doing some

art homework today..........who

would have thought that at this

stage in my life I would be back

to homework!  Haha!

Anyway, here is Jane Castle with

a very nice arty page in her new

journal.......

 "I made myself a promise this year to start 

an Art Journal and a Scrap Book. Well the year is 

trundling  along at a pace so I felt I'd better do something 

about one at least so here is my very first page 

of my very first art journal!

I began by applying various layers of Fresco paints 

with a brayer in Wisteria, Blush, Hint of Mint and Stone.

Then once I was happy with the combination added 

some Grunge Paste through a TCW stencil.

This was left to completely dry before applying some 

DI in Weathered Wood to the grunge paste with my finger.

The quote from a PaperArtsy stamp set was then added 

using Denim Adirondack ink. 

I felt this was a very apt quote! 

The dots were stamped in DI Peeled Paint.

Next onto the main stamped images, 

for this I used a selection from Eclectica ETS01. 

As I only wanted the stem part of one stamp I masked 

the unwanted part with a post-it note before inking.

This was removed before stamping onto my page. 

The circle stamp which I chose for my 'Flower Head' 

was marked on the back of the stamp to hi-light the point 

where the 'Stem' and 'Flower' would meet. 

The 3 main images were heat embossed with clear EP.

The circles were then added to the edges and 

using a fine nibbed black pen I added some connecting 

lines and swirls.

Now for a splash of colour......... 

using Claret, Pumpkin Soup, Chartreuse and Autumn Fire 

all transluscent Fresco paints 

and a very fine paint brush I began to fill in various 

sections/segments. 

I finished with a few dots of Metallic Glaze 

on some of the tiny dots.

This was left for a couple of hours to thoroughly dry 

before adding some glossy accents to one section of 

yellow on each of the 3 main images. 

When I went back to take the final pictures I was amazed 

that the Glossy Accents had started to crack ---- 

now I don't know if that was because it's an old bottle 

perhaps 5yrs maybe more 

or that my craft room is outside and it may have 

got too cold for it overnight? 

If you know what caused the cracking please leave 

a message below as I am intrigued"

Material List

Fresco Chalk Paints

PaperArtsy Stamp Sets ETS01, ESN03, EEV06

TCW Mini Raven Mosaic Stencil

PaperArtsy Grunge Paste

Distress Inks

Embossing Powder

Ranger Glossy Accents

Fresco Metallic Glaze

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Adirondack Ink 

Uni-pin Fine Pigment Pen

Thank you Jane for sharing your

new journal with us.  We will look

forward to seeing more of it.......

Have been pondering on your dilemma

with the Glossy Accents - I have some of

equal vintage and it is fine so over to you

followers, any ideas?

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx