Monday 31 October 2016

Spooky art journaling!

Images and borders by Tumblefish Studios and Crowabout Studio B
Texture stamp by me! for Stampotique Originals
Paints by Dina Wakley

Boo! It's Halloween! Of course I just had to incorporate a little bit of spookiness into my latest art journal page. I decided not to go too gory, but instead add little witchy hats to these sweet vintage little girls.


This became a page to teach at my latest regular art journaling class at Art from the Heart (Harrogate UK). The page was done entirely with tools - no brushes allowed! - so we used brayers, silicone brushes and Catalyst blades. And then we added lots of doodling, scratching into wet paint, stencilling, oil pastels and anything else we felt like!

When teaching I usually start with a practice / techniques page, and so to start with we used all of these techniques but added journaling as a focal feature (predictably there was much grumbling at this point!)


And then we moved onto our main page. Here's how mine looked in its various stages:



Mmmmmm lots of scratchy goodness!




I used mini letter stamps to add a quote:


And here are the class hard at work producing some fabulous pages! As always we had a fun, messy and very creative day :-)







7 comments:

  1. Kate ..you know i LOVE all your art so much!!! Can you tell where you get those sweet vintage girls to use!

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    1. Thanks Jane! The image was from Tumblefish at Mischief Circus. Tumblefish isn't designing for them any more so her designs have been retired :-( Plenty more at the website though! https://www.mischiefcircus.com

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  2. Fabulous page Kate...Loving your girlies..:)xxx

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    1. Thanks She! The girlies are by Tumblefish at Mischief Circus. She is taking a break from it all at the mo though but she will be back...

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  3. So wonderful page Kate !! Love these so happy colours, big hugs, Caty

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