Hello friends! :) I feel so lucky and happy to be participating in blog hops when my artsy friends bring out new products! I get to play with their awesome new artsy products and show off some new art created yay!
So the fabulous Jill Berry also has a new set of stencils out with Artistcellar. These babies are texture-based and I just love them. I particularly love the stencils that look like lettering of some sorts though I can't figure out what kind of lettering it is and to me it looks like Elvish (LOTR)! So magical! :)
So I used some of these stencils in my journal this week. I love using stencils as part of my layering and background making (many of you who follow my work or have been on my classes will know this!). :)
This week I also filmed & prepared my first lesson for Life Book 2014 (eeeee, only 2 more weeks or so until this fabulous art feast begins - make sure to sign up to experience it all from the beginning by the way!).
In my first lesson we'll do a variety of things, first we listen to a meditation in which we are guided to meet our 'inner artist guardian angel' :). She is the person inside of all of us guarding us against any negative inner critic thoughts and talks that many of us suffer from. :) So in the meditation we meet this wonderful being and we are also guided to find our 'word for the year' and our 'colour that resonates the most with us in the moment'. We then take some of the imagery from the meditation with us into our art exercises. :)
We start with a warm up exercise in which we do some really easy techniques for those with 'blank page fear' and we learn more about colour theory too. (We create bright colourful paint feasts such as in the image above!)
Then we do a main project in which we draw our artist guardian angel in a mixed media style. Lots of layering/ distressed and textured effects. :) It's allll so yummy. :-)
Anyhoo, I mention what we do in my first lesson because I felt so inspired by the "inner artist guardian girl" I had created, that I wanted to create her again in my journal which is also when I grabbed Jill's stencils and used them too.
So here are some photos of what I've done:
You can do truly fabulous things with these texture stencils! :D
Follow the blog hop to see what other artists are doing with them, here is the list (note: US date format: mm/dd):
12/7 Artistcellar www.artistcellar.com/wp
12/8 Kecia Deveney http://www.lemoncholys.
12/9 Sketchbook Challenge/Jill http://sketchbookchallenge.
12/10 Brian Kasstle http://apaperbear.wordpress.
12/11 Mel Kolstad http://reliefpress.blogspot.com
12/12 Kim Rae Nugent http://www.kimraenugent.
12/13 Jodi Ohl www.sweetrepeats.blogspot.com
12/14 Effy Wild www.effywild.com
12/15 Tamara Laporte www.willowing.org/blog
12/16 Jane Davenport http://janedavenport.com/
12/17 Chris Cozen http://chriscozenartist.
12/18 Guadalupe Brizuela Cabal http;//guadasartplace.
12/19 Jill Berry http://jillberrydesign.com/
And woot woot: I can give away 1 set of Jill's stencils to a lucky winner!
To enter the give away, leave a comment below telling me how you'd use Jill's stencils if you won them.
Love always,
Tam x
I love this! I would use the stencils in some of work during lifebook next year :) So excited to finally be able to participate!
ReplyDeleteI would use these stencils to create journal page backgrounds & picture frame borders.
ReplyDeleteoh i would like to use it like you do....and draw faces over it...it is so nice....i would like having them....
ReplyDeleteHi Tam Iam just starting out and looking forward to learning techniques with you. I would use Jill's stencil to follow you in your teachings I believe it would help me start out. Can't wait till the start, just hope my guardian angel works out ok. As you can hear in my writing I am a bit fearful of putting everything together. Have a lovely Christmas and I feel 2014 will be. Good one foe you.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful! I admire you, the lady!
ReplyDeleteI would love to use these wonderful stencils in my Lifebook lessons next year and in other projects in my journal, or if someone makes me brave enough on canvas too.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see how the stencils work for making borders. I also really like what you've done with them... gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLovely Journal pages and canvas art work would benefit from these beautiful stencils!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful backgrounds and other fun experiments-maybe some gelli plate fun!
ReplyDeleteI am so thrilled to be a part of LifeBook this year! These stencils are so fun! I can see myself using them with modeling paste on a canvas or in my art journal. It would be fun to use with my gelli plate too.. Lots of possiblities! :)
ReplyDeleteLove these, would use them in the Art Journals I am currently creating for 6 - 13 year old children to promote and inspire them to start creating their own art journal. :)
ReplyDeleteLove these, would use them in the Art Journals I am currently creating for 6 - 13 year old children to promote and inspire them to start creating their own art journal. :)
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