Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 74

Today is Day 74 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge.  This week the prompt is to use "Crayons".

For this piece, I lightly drew the outline of a butterfly in pencil, then using red, orange and pink coloured crayons, I started adding dots of colour to the wings, towards the body, I added lines of the three colours so that they practically blended in with each other, then used the orange crayon to draw over my pencil lines.  For the body of the butterfly, I used a black fine liner pen and a white gel pen.

Stamping and Zentangle Art Fusion

On my earlier post, I shared two zentangle doodles I made while at the caravan.  We came back home today, so I decided to work with one of the dentangles and stamp on it.

I used a golden yellow shade of paint fromt the Prima "Tropicals" Water Colour Confections paint set, to paint the large zentangle circles.

while the paint was drying, I drew a circle the same size as the large circles on a post it note, I cut the inner area out to create a mask for stamping.

Using the post-it note to protect the area around the circles, I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp four different patterns from the Funky Fossil Designs A7 stamp sets.  The sets that I used were:  Vintage Script, Round in dots, Inky Grid and Ditsy Flowers.

I mounted the card on to a piece of black card and then used orange and white coloured Posca Pens to add a bit of colour within the large circles.

Zentangles at the caravan

We've been away at the caravan for a few days.  While there, I miss my crafting so always take a bag of bits and bobs with me to play with.  This time I had a note pad and black pen, so doodled some Zentangle designs. It's very calming.

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 43

It's Day 43 of Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challnege.  As it is Sunday, there is a new theme, this week is all about stamps and stamping.

I started with a square piece of card.  Using a black fine liner pen, I drew a square.  Then within that square, I drew four more squares.

I painted each of the four boxes a different colour using Prima "Tropicals" water colour paints.

Once the paint was dry, which was almost immediately I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp each of the Lavinia Stamps animals.  The stamps I have used are "Mooch" the cat, the "Snail Set", the "Large Owls" and one of the hares from the "Whimsical Hares" stamp set.

I outlined the stamping using a white Uniball Signo pen.  I added a touch of colour to the snail shell using  pastel pencils as the orange was a bit too strong on the shell area.

I decided that I would doodle in the background of each of the boxes.  I used a gold gel pen to create dots in the hare box.  I used a black fine liner pen to add squiggly horizontal lines with dots in the Mooch box.  In the snail box I drew lots of circles with the fine liner, then filled in the gaps between the circles using the same pen.  Finally, behind the owl, I used a black fine liner pen to draw broken vertical lines with green dots of gel pen between the breaks in the lines.

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 42

Today is Day 42 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge.  This is the last day of charcoal / pastel week.

For the background, I have used lots of colours of Faber Castell "Soft Pastel Sticks", blending the colours lightly with my finger tip.  I spritzed the surface with hair spray to set the pastel on the surface rather than on me!

For the broad patterned lines, I used Versafine Clair "Nocture" black ink to stamp one of the Funky Fossil Designs "Doodle Borders".  Then I coloured in the edges in black.

I drew squiggly lines, dashes and lots of circles from the top left, drifting down to the bottom right hand corner, colouring them with a white gel pen, but the white was quite weak, which wasn't the look I was after, so I decided to cover them with Ranger White "Enamel Accents".  Finally adding a few touches of coloured Posca Pen across the surface and a Tim Holtz, Idea-ology "Big Chat" Word Sticker.

  

Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay Challenge - Day 41

Today is Day 41 of the Tiffany Johnson Creative #100daysartplay challenge.  This week is all about using pastels and charcoal.  For this piece I have used both.

Today took me totally out of my comfort zone again, getting messy with soft pastel sticks and charcoal pencils.  I really don't like getting messy and trying to control the dust is a nightmare,  somehow I managed to get some on my face!

I started by tearing a page out of an old book with foxing and yellowed pages.

I used Faber Castell Soft Pastel sticks to draw the leaf, using greens, blues, mauves and pink colours. I didn't spend much time on it, I just went for it.

I used a Derwent Charcoal pencil to draw the dots in the background.  Then splattered white and black Posca Pen paint across the surface of the page.

Using a black fine liner pen, I drew three squiggly lines around the page and then drew circles on the leaf area itself.  Finally, I added a word sticker saying "and breathe..." then spritzed the surface with hairspray to set the chalky finish.

Lavinia Stamps "Lupin the silhouette Hare" Tag

I recently saw a post on Instagram where somebody used Q-tips to create a bokeh look and also used the Q-tips for stamping.  Sorry, I don't recall who inspired me, but thank you, I had to give it a go and this tag is the result of my effort.

I had a small piece of water colour card left over from a previous project, so decided to use that for the base.  I used a wash of water and "Faded Jeans" Distress Oxide Ink, applied with a wide paint brush in rough strokes horizontally.  I then ran the heat gun over the surface to dry it.

Using a wet Q-tip, I painted dots of water across the surface, rubbing the Q-tip in the middle of the dots to achieve a lighter look.  I then used a fan shaped paint brush to create smaller splatters of water, dabbing them off with a piece of kitchen roll.  These two techniques created the mottled background you see.

I used a fine tipped black pen to draw branches dangling down from the top right hand side of the tag.

I then dipped a Q-tip into "Festive Berries" Distress Oxide Ink and dobbed the Q-tip to create round berry shapes.  I extended the branches on to the berries to make them look more realistic.

At this stage, I really wasn't sure if I was just going to stamp a sentiment or create an actual image, I decided on the latter.

I used the Lavinia Stamps "Lupin the Silhouette Hare" stamp, stamped in two shades of Versafine Clair inks (Acorn and Pine Cone).

I used the Lavinia Stamps "Hill Mask" to create the landscape using Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.

I added colour to the hare using Van Goch pastel pencils.  I then added highlights to the hare and the berries using a white gel pen.

Finally, I mounted the tag on to a piece of dark red card to match the shade of the berries.