Tuesday 2 April 2013

Remember what you were Told About Leftovers…


I like to think of myself as a frugal artist, I don’t like to waste anything (remember what you were told as a child about waste!)  and more and more I’m finding ways of using everything in inventive ways. This is, in part, thanks to the gorgeous Jennibellie whose blog could be entitled "The Frugal Artist", she’s incredible and is helping guide me along as I endeavour to make my own journals from scratch.

So, yesterday after painting on my canvas I had some left over paint and taking my beloved artist sponges I set about slapping the paint onto any journal I could find. This included my trusty A5, black faux leather cover journal. I’ve found these are my favourite type of journal as I don’t have to prep the pages every time (I can just glue a couple together) and the paper quality will stand up to a lot of media. These cost me about £3 from my local ASDA supermarket and come in all sizes. So, as I slapped the paint down in my A5 journal I loved the result instantly as the sponges had soaked up several colours, creating an effect I’d be hard pushed to replicate with a brush…



 

Scrummy, gorgeous, loveliness…I LOVE this pallet!



 

 

I felt inspired to draw on the pages using my favourite black Pitt pens and white uni-ball Signo. I love circles, sprials, wavy lines, the natural world and female figures meaning this double page spread sums up where my a lot of my art is at right now. I'm thrilled with it and it shows me, yet again, what using up those leftovers can lead to!

7 comments:

  1. Hello, just saw you on 'Art Geeks' so thought I would follow your new (ish) blog. Have you applied to Jennie for TAT then? sure she would be happy to interview you, I love your portrait of Castielle, also a fan of Supernatural.

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    1. Hi Lynda,
      Yes, I've emailed Jenni about TAT :). Yeah, love Cas, currently enjoying season 8 where he is still a bad ass and totally endearing too. Thanks so much for the comment and have followed you right back. See you around xxx

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  2. Wonderful results with your leftovers and I love this color combo as well. Some of my all-time favorite leftover bits come from the wax paper I put under my work as I paint. I can then add those bits as collage to something else. Grungy goodness!

    ;-> Felicia
    There are no rules!
    http://feliciathejournaljunkie.blogspot.com/

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    1. Thanks, Felicia! Yes, gorgeous colours I couldn't believe it :). Yes, always keep those splattered pages, kitchen roll scraps etc!

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  3. Oh my goodness, Elvina!! I am so glad that you popped over to my blog and left some love! I have to say that I was deeply involved in a scrapbooking website, including two terms on their design team, and finally left after finding myself spending hours just commenting every day. There seemed to be no time left for me to create! So I joined art journaling.ning (my new passion)and just got sucked right back into spending hours commenting, so I kind of broke away from that, too. While I still spend time visiting the blogs of people whom I admire and who inspire me, it became a win-win situation! So glad now to add you to that list of blogs! But, a favor? Blogspot has a widget (I think that is what it is called, that you add to your sidebar called "subscribe by e-mail" and it would be great if I could follow you via e-mail. That way, I get an e-mail every time you post on your blog--sadly, at my age, it's the only way I remember!

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  4. OK, now to the "art part" of commenting! ;-)
    I have just started to transfer excess paint to blank journal pages, but haven't used any yet. You have inspired me to take a look at the wonderful resources I am creating there! The (assumed) random colors you have added to this spread over time turned out beautifully! I also love that the female form is not the primary focus. I was able to take in the "whole" before I began to look at the pieces'n'parts that make up that whole. Quite brilliant! Hugs!

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    1. I shall certainly add that widget, have been meaning to! Yeah, you did a lot of commenting on artjournaling.ning and I saw it as you being very encouraging but never thought how that was taking you away from your art! Am so happy you've found a better way.

      Thanks so much for your lovely comments on my page, it means a lot to get feedback on this new blog :) xxxx

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