Art Spark Wednesday!

It's Wednesday and that means....ART SPARK WEDNESDAY! YAY!

I will admit I took a Wednesday or two off, but I finally edited this video and got it to upload! It runs longer than any of the others. It's just under 35 minutes. I hope that isn't terribly long for ya. I had fun making this one and hope you enjoy it :)

Here is the video:

Thanks for watching and happy Wednedsay!

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

Hello there dear blog readers!

Another Wednesday, another Art Spark Video! I hope you like this week's episode. I had fun with paint and paper.

Here is the video:

Thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

Here is this week's Art Spark Wednesday. I started the background with some photo transfer and then added some stencil numbers and the surround.

Then I dripped some black acrylic paint, and then white acrylic paint. 

Here is the video:

Added some texture with bubble wrap and some tape backing.  

I added the flowers by cutting out the petal shapes from book text and then painted over them with purple acrylic paint. 

I added a quote with some tiny letter stickers. It says "Breathe in inspiration and trust yourself. The answer is yes you can." Then I finished it off with a tag stamped with the date. 

Thanks for stopping by. Now go get crafty!!

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

Welcome Friends. 

I hope your day is going well. We had such nice temperatures here in Ohio the last few days. It was great to feel the sun warm on my skin and not have to wear a heavy coat for a change. Enough about the weather though. Here is my latest Art Spark Wednesday video. You won't believe where this page started from it's finished product. WHEW! I hope you enjoying watching! 

 

Here is this week's video:

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

Dawn here again with the next installment of Art Spark Wednesday! I hope you enjoy this week's video. Here are some snapshots of my finished pages. Look at the paint splatter goodness:

We got some drippers here, yeehaw!

Here is the video:

Thanks for taking a look!

Hope you have a happy Wednesday.

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

           Welcome to this week's Art Spark Wednesday. I had fun playing with some homemade spray inks. Some worked, some didn't. I think I learn more from what doesn't work than what does. Which reminds me of something Donna Downey said in one or two of her Inspiration Wednesday videos on YouTube (look her up if you haven't already, you won't regret it). She taught me to go with those "what if..." moments.What is a what if moment? Well, let's say you're in the middle of  creating a masterpiece and something in your brain says.....what if.....? (what if I paint this sky orange, what if I poke holes in my canvas, etc). By all means try it! You could end up with something really cool and unexpected. You could also end up with a mess that makes you slap your forehead and ask "what was I thinking. Either way you are learning something. And learn I did. I won't lie, I had some forehead slapping moments.....

I cut 2" paper squares from patterned paper and adhered them to my pages with Aleene's Clear Tacky Glue. That glue holds really well by the way. Then I went through my stash and found chipboard, diecuts, paper flowers and added them to my 2" squares. 

Then I sprayed, painted, drew, slung and anything else to help things along.

Here is the video:

I added the quote and the bicycle diecut and VIOLA! 

Thanks for stopping by to have a look. I hope this Wednesday finds you creating.

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

Hello everyone :) Here is my latest art journal page. It took some unexpected twists and turns. I learned some things, made a mess and had fun in the process. Isn't that what it's all about after all? I sure  hope so lol. After the video was done, I turned to my art journal and it "told" me it needed a few more finishing touches. I smeared some gesso around the paper the quote is on and then dripped some white paint onto the pages. Sorry I didn't think of it while making the video.

Here is the video:

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative week!

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

I finally got my video uploaded. It's 17+ minutes of pure entertainment folks (enter sarcasm here). But really, it's my first YouTube video, so please be kind lol. I am working on another one today. It's filmed and uploaded and ready for editing, which with my capability in that regard I should have it ready by next week.:) Here are some photos:

And here is the video:

For the record, I filmed it on a Wednesday lol. 

Thanks for taking a look and if you watch my video, leave me some feedback.

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Monday on Thursday

                  What is Magazine Monday?
         It's a new segment I am trying out on my blog here to help me post more frequently and to practice my painting skills. It's just an ordinary ESPN magazine that was going to end up in the trash. I like it's over sized pages.
    I usually start by finding a quote that "speaks" to me and then I gesso my pages.

 The quote I choose usually determines what I will paint on the pages. This week I went with a Bible verse:
He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge.   Psalms 91:4. So I drew and painted a wing with powder blue acrylic paint.. I also filled in the background with green paint, and then went around the edges with white while the green paint was still wet.

 I added some white paint to the wing so it wasn't so flat. Then added some smaller feather looking spots for interest. I painted the lower right of each of these marks with white paint. I also flicked a white Elmer's Painty Pen to make the white paint splats. Giving the wing freckles :) I also darkened the Bottom of the wing with dark blue paint.

 I wanted the shadow under the wing to be darker, so I coated the pages in a thin layer of Collage Pauge. This makes the surface nonporous. Which works well for adding some India ink from my Pitt Brush pen. I marked it on the paper and smeared it around a little with my finger.

 I finished my pages by adding the Bible verse I chose and hand painted some feathers around the edges. At some point I also added some Twinkling H2O's in  Light Blue, Gold and Yellow to add some sparkle.

I will see you next week, hopefully on Monday next time for another installment of Magazine Monday!

Have a great day!

Hugs, Dawn

Whisper to a Butterfly....

Here is another page from my art journal. I used Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Stamps, Staz-on Ink, White pen, Magazine pages, tissue paper, Mod Podge, book pages, scrapbook paper, Dimensional Magic, Sharpie, fonts printed on copy paper, watercolor pencils, watercolor, rhinestones.
       I am enjoying the process of doing whatever I want with no rules. The best part is getting messy with it :)
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day!
Hugs, Dawn

Art Journaling

I recently became aware of Art Journaling. After watching how to videos and seeing some pages other people have created. I decided I wanted to give it a try as well. Here is one of my first pages. I found a large hardcover book at Goodwill and decided it would work well as an Art Journal. I Gesso'ed the pages before I applied the oil pastels (Crayola Portfolio Water Soluable Oil Pastels to be specific). Then I sprayed some ink, stamped, adhered torn bits of tissue paper, magazine pages and a pattern for making clothes. I then added more paint, doodled and glued whatever I wanted to the pages. Finally I stamped the text and VIOLA! I had so much fun playing with color :)

Thanks for looking

Hugs, Dawn