Ken Oliver Color Bursts

After work yesterday I needed to do some art and I have just received the new set of 6 color bursts, so out came the water sprayer and lots of paper and card, ooh and  few stencils.  I had great fun, however even though I cleaned my worktop afterwards, I still get coloured water if I spill any water on it today. Anyway here's the photos for your to see ....

this was my first play with the new colours and then I got some bigger stencils out and once you start you cant stop as there is always excess to mop up, and you clean your stencil by taking a last print, but when you pick it up there's another print underneath, and so it continues, until you have to be strict with yourself and just wipe  up what's left, otherwise I would have played all night. 

 

Would recommend these if only for the fun of using them, but today I'm going to see what cards and art I can make using the myriad of prints I have, will post results for you to see later, have a good Sunday x

Journal play

So one Sunday I decided to try and kickstart some art.  I got out my large journal and decided to just do messy backgrounds ready for me to create on. I did some ombre backgrounds, some gesso backgrounds, with spray ink and some squirt the paint on the page and try to arfully blend together, which is where this one started.  I started working on the one opposite which was oranges and pinks when some of the pink ended up on this background (messy artist) and it caught my eye and I liked the contrast, so I switched pages and created some more layers, including book circles coloured with inks. I liked them and decided the rest of the bookpage would look good as a dress for a whimsical girl, so I bravely (or so I thought) blocked out the figure and I've been working on it on and off since then. The flowers ended up because the book page had a hole in it form where I'd cut out circles before realising I wanted a dress shape, LOL, that's what you call serendipity Now I think its finished or virtually anyway. 

So what do you think?

                                               

forgot to mention the lips, first off all I was going for a singing angel, but it all looked a bit non- angelic, so I painted out and started again, and then again, I wish Id stopped at the second set.

getting proud of my shading and its all thanks to the fabby Kate Crane, a great teacher.