Stencilled Flower Garden

Recently Julie Balzer has been sharing some of her most used and favorite art supplies on her blog.  She's also featured art by other readers along with some of their favorite art supplies.  I decided to see if I could create an art journal spread using only 10 things.  I counted my three different colors of Archival Ink as just one.  And the three colors of acrylic paint as one.  So call me a cheater but in my head it's one product (even if it is in three different colors).

Here's a photo of the supplies I used:

These supplies include:

1. Luminarte Silks Acrylic Paints

2. Archival Ink stamp pads

3. Color Bloom Spray Mist

4. Golden Acrylic Paint

5. Derwent Inktense Pencils

6. Stabilo All Black Pencil

7. Rubber Stamps

8. Stencils

9. Waterbrush

10. StazOn stamp pad

I love seeing and hearing about other people's favorite art supplies.  Often I say to myself, "oh, I have those Neocolor crayons or Inktense pencils, I just need to remember to use them".  It's also fun to see how different artists combine products to get unique and different looks.  The Internet is like one big show and tell!

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Large Art Journal Paint Scraping Fun!

Lately I have felt a little intimidated to work in my larger Dylusions Art Journal.  Some days it just seems like a lot of space to fill.  Kind of like starting on a large blank canvas.  But on Sunday I decided it was time to stop using that as an excuse and just start applying some paint.

First I dribbled some Golden Acrylic paint and used an old credit card to spread it out.  I did this with four different colors.  Then I used a few light blue Neocolor crayons and went around the edges coloring.  I then took a wet paint brush and blended this color in.  Next I used a few of my newer Dina Wakley stamps with some black Archival Ink.  I also used my green Wink of Stella pen to color in a few of the large circles and did some stenciling with a Crafter's Workshop Stencil and some purple paint.  The last few things I did were to use a black pen to draw a wavy line around the border and then color this area in with my bubblegum pink Dylusions spray ink (that I have poured into a water brush).  Oh, and I drew a few circles in the border that I colored in with a blue Montana Acrylic paint pen and then outlined with a white uni-ball pen.  There are also a few pieces of washi tape placed randomly here and there.

One thing I like about this art journal spread is that I left some white space.  I often feel I have to cover everything in paint.  I really like the look of some white space peeking through.  It lightens things up!

Here's another look:

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