Wildflowers

Hello! It's the first Friday of this month, and Creative Artiste is back after an end-of-year break with a brand new monthly challenge! As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Mixed Media Goes. (Do visit the challenge blog to check out what is accepted by our challenge as mixed media.) I made this…

Every Small Thing…

Here's a recent art journal spread of mine. I made this on my 10x10cm (4x4") handmade art journal, which I've been using since early last year. Working on this art journal is so different compared to my A6 one--for one, I can use small images as focals, which I find hard to incorporate into taller…

Magical Dreams

Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I made this page using some new supplies that I bought recently--a new stamp, and a much-awaited archival-quality black ink. The page started out with some spray smooshes from a previous session. On this, I used acrylic paints for some finger-painting. I then used more acrylics…

Faces – 4

Hello! Hope the year has started well for you. I've been on some year-end / post-year routines since last week, and haven't had a chance to finish processing my latest art. So here's one of my earlier faces / portraits to get this year's artsy journey started - I liked my use of gesso last…

Success / Failure

Here's a recent art journal page of mine - This page had some remnants of previous gel plate play--there were metallic acrylics that had been printed through a stencil, as well as regular acrylics with texture from a corrugated cardboard piece. (I'm trying to use up and finish the blue in my acrylic stash since…

Happy Place

Today I have the exciting opportunity to be a guest designer at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. I discovered them recently, and have enjoyed joining their monthly Anything Mixed Media Goes challenges. For their challenge this month, here's my guest designer project, an art journal page (of course! 🙂 ) - I used a wax paper…

Playing with Pencils and Sprays

I'm taking the mixed media course, Wanderlust, that started early this year. I diligently followed the first set of classes that used pastels, and started with classes on pencils. Then my 100-day project started, and then I had some health hiccups, and I ended up de-prioritizing this course. I'm now back on the course, playing…

All Dreams

Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I started this spread by smooshing the pages over diluted acrylics and then spritzing some water to make the colors move more freely. I also brushed white acrylic at the edges later. Over this, I adhered hand-torn scrap paper. I then applied modeling paste through a…

100 Days of ATCs (2023) – 7

Here's another bunch of ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) from my still-ongoing 100 Day Project this year. This is the penultimate batch, and there's only a few more ATCs to go, woot! I made another gel-printed background base in the middle of this batch, which gave me an extra 10 partially-prepped ATCs for this project. I…

Wild Flowers

I rarely work on my A6 journal's single pages in landscape mode, so I thought I'd try it out. Here's one of my first ones - I started this page by smooshing acrylics over the page. I then used a handmade stamp with acrylics for some initial texture. Following this, I added acrylic splatters and…