Showing posts with label Distress Markers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Distress Markers. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Starting a Journal

I have decided to start an Art journal. I am really nervous about this new venture, as I haven't kept even a sketch book since I was in Architecture School nearly 23 years ago! So I have dived straight in and started with a little sketch of some quirky houses.  It's not very 'Arty', but I just thought that I would easy.


This is how I started out. I used pencil and Distress Markers to draw and colour the houses.


And this is where I ended up. I stamped on tissue paper and added it to the roofs and paths. I painted the houses with a heavier acrylic paint. The sky was a little bit of a disaster. I had used Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze to drip down the page ( hoping for a meteor shower effect) but it just wasn't working, so I over-painted it with ranger Paint Dabbers. Who knew that the glaze (should have worked it out from the name) would resist! I then painted some violet ink over the top and used my Inktense pencils to deepen the colour. The stars are from a Dylusions stencil, which I picked up from Create with Kate
Stay tuned for my (hopeful) improvement over the next few months.



Thursday, December 20, 2012

Ranger Challenge



All of my packages have been wrapped and placed under the tree. The tags for this year's presents were made using the Ranger No. 8 tags which were decorated using distress inks added with an Ink blending tool. I speckled the tags with water to make it look like snow was falling. The stamped images were coloured using distress inks and markers and the whole lot had Stickles added for a bit of sparkle. Happy Christmas everyone.

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