'The Art of Living' by Elisa Ablett - August Watercolour Mixed Media Kit

Hi everyone, 

Elisa here from the design team with my latest creation for Artified - A mixed media Art Journal Page using the awesome products from the  NEW and exciting Mixed Media Kit - August Edition.

The kit is perfect for those wanting to try out new products and also to add to your mixed media stash!

The link to the Shop for the kit - Head on over to check it out!

Artified - August Watercolour Mixed Media Kit

Here is my project - The Art of Living.

Tutorial time 😀

Step 1 - Using the dictionary paper provided cut two feathers either by hand or using a template and also cut a few rectangles (about 5 or 6 ) depending on the size.

Step 2 - Using gesso from your stash, give your feathers and rectangles a coat and let dry

Step 3 - While your feathers are drying, lets start the background! Coat your page with gesso and let dry, then spray your page with the Gold Acrylic Marabu Spray and while wet add drips of colour onto your page from your watercolour palette (the greens, browns, oranges and yellows). With a very wet paintbrush grab your colour and add to the wet areas on the page. Using a heatgun dry and then keep applying colour til you are happy with the page.

Step 4 - Add colour to your feathers and rectangles by spraying each with water. Spray water onto a craft mat and add some of your colour to the water. Then using a paintbrush add colour to the wet area of your feathers and dry using heatgun.

Step 5 - Some paper weaving! cut thin strips about 10cm long and lay the first few on top of each other and then start weaving over and under, doesn't have to be neat. Then spray over the top with the gold Marabu Art Spray and let dry.

Step 6 - Add some stamping to your rectangles and background page using the stamp and an archival black inkpad and an acrylic block. 

Extra steps - Using the stencil and white modelling paste add texture to your background page

Cut a piece of white cardstock to stick your elements to the background page

Wrap some extra strips of the dictionary paper around a stick and add some ivory coloured cotton

Highlight some words from your dictionary or book paper - i was lucky enough to find the words - The Art of Living!

Stick down your rectangles, paper weaving, stick and feathers as shown in the main photo, overlapping each layer

Grab the thin paintbrush or water brush that comes with your kit and fill it with water, using the black colour add hand painted elements to your page, I added dandelions and grass.

I also used a dauber and a black inkpad through the stencil to add a butterfly to my page.

My theme was to tie in the words The Art of living with natural earth tones and flora and fauna.

Here are some close ups!

That's it from me today! I hope you have enjoyed my Art Journal page tutorial and also looking through the NEW Mixed Media Kit from Artified - Artified August Mixed Media Kit. Make sure you leave me some love!

Also make sure you join the new Artified facebook group to share your creations and keep up to date with all things Artified - https://www.facebook.com/groups/246759415835526/?ref=br_rs

'My Sanity' Art Journal page by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone, 

My turn up on the Artified Blog with a fun and colourful (tongue in cheek) Art Journal page.

Featuring loads of awesome Artified goodies including Tim Holtz layering stencils, distress paints, prima watercolour confection pans and a gorgeous Stampotique unicorn stamp.

Here are just some of the wonderful products used to create my Art Journal page, follow on for the step by step tutorial.

Step 1 - Using Dina Wakely heavy body white paint paint/glue old book paper and medical gauze to your page to add texture and depth.

Step 2 - while you are waiting on your page to dry, stamp your unicorn onto smooth watercolour paper with archival ink and colour with your prima watercolours using a paint brush. Fussy cut your unicorn out. I also drew a couple of bears to ride the unicorn in keeping with my funny saying and coloured them as well. 

Step 3 - Add some more texture to your page with modelling paste and your Tim Holtz Layering stencils. 

Step 4 - Once your paste has dried, using the side of a ruler ( i added black indian ink to the side of the ruler) and spritz my page with water in the middle, then pressed my ruler to the page to create black lines 

Step 5 - Add some circles to your page using stamps, toilet rolls, plastic lids etc and ink, start colouring the larger circles with watercolours or distress paint. Then start colouring your page using distress paint and water colours spritzing with water when needed.

Step 6 - Add some visual interest by gluing some colourful strips of paper. and then using a baby wipe over the top of a stencil to take away colour from your page.

Another chance to add some stamping !

Step 7 - Last steps - Add a large grungy circle in the middle of your page with a ink nib pen and Indian ink so that your unicorn can sit inside it and you can add your quote around the circle. 

Here are some close ups !!

Here are some links to the products in the Artified Store:

dina-wakley-media-heavy-body-2oz-acrylic-paints

india-ink

stampotique-stamps - unicorn

prima-watercolor-confections-watercolor-pans-12-pkg

layered-stencils

Well that's it from me today!!

Hope you have enjoyed seeing my Art Journal come together :-) 

Elisa xx

Playing with Watercolour Confections by Prima.

Hi everyone Michelle here and I am having fun with these,

 Watercolour collections by Prima!

 Now I am no expert on watercolours, in fact I am a complete newbie so all the following projects are created by me just having a play really, so bear with me as I go on this voyage of "Discovery"!

First up I played with a few background on watercolour paper and here are the cool results:

There are a few techniques I had fun with:

• First up I tried "wet on wet", this means I wet the paper first, then added the colour, splashed more water, then watched the magic happen, I then left it to air dry. Adding more water splashes creates those fabulous "Blooms" you see.

• Next technique is adding cling wrap onto the still wet paint splashes and leaving it to dry completely before taking off the wrap. Create lots of creases in the wrap to add drama! 

• This one was wet on wet again, then I took to it with a heat gun to half dry it, then splashed more colour.

• Last background was my fave! I added salt while it dried naturally. Once the paper was completely dry I brushed off the salt to reveal fabulous "spottage" (yes technical term!)

I loved this one so much I had a little play with my fineliner, I will probably use it for a card a little later, what do you think? 

A simple idea but I kind of like it!

Next up I had a go at making some loose Blooms, I really have to get use to how the colours behave, they really do have a life of their own!

This was done on dry paper:

When using watercolour you cannot "paint" so much as "move" colour. As I said I am no expert and my skill is not perfect but, hey, I have had fun!!!!

 

I was actually very surprised by how much pigment were in these sets for the price, compared to artist water colours. They are fabulously bright and vibrant and easy peasy to use! Yep my kinda product!!

Last piece is this silhouette using all watercolour. I wanted to test the depth of the black colour and how it reacts when adding more colour. This is another simple idea that helped with my water colour education!!

I was a little scared to add more colour after working with the black so I did wait till it was dry before playing more and creating the Blooming garland on her head.

 

I used the watercolours on stamps to add some loose flower images to give the garland some definition, worked a treat!

So that is all from me for now, do yourself a favour get a set of these babies they are awesome fun to experiment with!! 

Artified have them HERE!