Art journal page - Lost and found and lucky in art

Simple A4 (cca 8.5" x 11.5") journal page with an interesting accident :0)

I wanted to use a gel medium transfer technique. I found a few pictures of hot air balloons in the news paper, so I played a little bit with the background (Distress paints and Silks acrylic paint) and transferred the pictures on, but the paper was too thin and distressed a lot during the revelation process and kept quite dull. Therefore I decided to re-colored the pictures a little bit more and used alcohol markers. I started on the big balloon with red marker, but it became clear soon, that it was not my best choice - the result was horrible :0) No problem - I covered both balloons with Dylusions black paint and stamped and stenciled the background with black archival ink. At the end I used white Dylusions paint to stamp with it on the balloons. Surprise, surprise - although the big balloon was completely covered with black, the red marker "soaked" through the paint and become visible on the white paint as a pastel version of the original strong red marker color :0o.... Very unexpected effect :0) But it can be useful, so I decided to share this journal page with you :0)

Enjoy your creative experimenting and have a very nice day :0)

20.5.2016 "Lost and found and lucky in art" 

Playful art journal page 9

Today's journal page is just a simple combination of some elements I wanted to use once. And topic... "Around the world" :0)

Background is made with stamping and Pan pastels again, postal stamps die cuts were embossed with embossing folders with script, travel and postal theme sprayed with Distress inks with some Pan pastels on it for more matte look. A globe is a gorgeous die from Tim Holtz. And than these nice stamps I have from my parcels and letters with crafty things...irresistible :0)

So no special technique today, just a little challenge with grey background...it is really not a color I would use a lot :D Just one funny thing - when I took my photos of this page, if the sunlight came from other side, the embossed parts looked like deeply debossed. Very cool - but not truth :0))

3.5.2016 Playful art journal page 9

Playful art journal pages 1 and 2

Today I have just two small art journal pages. I really would like to do something just for the fun, not too complicated, something I can finish in few hours, without too much thinking about the subject (just to be inspired with something - technique, color, shape, picture) and feel that great satisfaction from the finished work in the same day - or the next day at the latest :0)) For me it is very difficult, because I mostly have a quite exact idea or topic in my head and I try to transfer it on the paper as best I can (at least in my own eyes) and sometimes it takes a lot of time and there is not so much creative fun and relaxation I would like to feel during the process .... These two pages are my first trials for a relatively quick and playful creation and I hope that it will be easier and easier for me ,0) 

I decided to use Seawhite hardcover art journal for it (25x19 cm / 10"x7.5").

Have a nice and playful day too :0)

18.2.2016 Playful journal page 1

8.3.2016 Playful journal page 2