Wow, its been a long time since I posted on the blog! I have been busy stocking the shop with lots and lots of new goodies to play with!
I have also been really busy designing new stencils, and as always first play with the stencils myself before adding it to the shop. I have been working on a template for houses for a while and came up with the "My Neighbourhood" stencil that includes a fun border as well as a picket fence and some pots and plants. The cute buildings can be either houses or shops, like a bakery in my tutorial.
My "Sunshine Houses" Art Journal Page:
SUPPLIES NEEDED:
Strathmore
Visual Journal 9x12 Bristol Smooth Paper
Heritage
Craft Products Gesso Paste
Acrylic
Sprays
Stencil-Art
stencils – My Neighbourhood STDS015, Cherry Blossoms STDS014 &
Sun Rays
STBP024
Patterned
Scrapbook and Text Paper
Heritage
Craft Products 3D Crystal Acrylic Paint – Fire Engine
Tim Holtz
Distress Paint – Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Picket Fence & Mustard Seed
Sakura
Glaze Pen – white
Faber-Castell
Big Brush pens – Warm Grey 273, White 101, Skyblue 146, Orange Glaze 113,
Walnut Brown
177, Green Gold 268, Cold Grey 230
Deep Scarlet 219
& Permanent Green 167
Heritage
Craft Products Free Flow Acrylic Paint – Carmine, Turquoise, Orange & Red
Oxide
Portfolio
Water-Soluble Oil Pastels – Orange, Red Orange, Yellow Orange, Yellow, Blue
Green,
Red, Green, Gray & Cerulean
Sharpie
Extra Fine Point White Paint Marker
INSTRUCTIONS:
IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS LET ONE LAYER DRY BEFORE ADDING ANOTHER!
- Apply gesso paste to the background with a palette knife to create some texture.
- Use home-made acrylic sprays to the background, move the page to create interesting patterns and to mix the colours a bit. (Watch the tutorial how to make your own acrylic sprays Click here).
- I initially planned to paint the 3 houses using the “My Neighbourhood” stencil as a template, but changed my mind and used patterned scrapbook to cut out 3 houses. I collaged the houses to the background with Ranger’s Multi Medium Matte.
- I tore a page out of an old childrens book and cut out the shapes for the windows and doors and adhered it in place with the Multi Medium.
- To get the paper houses to look like it was part of the page, I applied a wash of gesso to the whole page.
- I used the Cherry Blossom stencil and Heritage 3D Crystal Acrylic Paint to add flowers in the foreground – almost as if you were looking at the houses from behind some flowers. I left it to dry over night – I found that the 3D Crystal Acrylic bubbles and burns and looses its transparency when dried with a heat tool.
- I lined the stencil up over the flowers and applied Distress Paint in Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Picket Fence and Mustard Seed to the flowers and leaves.
- I used Faber-Castell Big Brush pens to add the pavement blocks and other details to the houses.
- I applied Heritage Free Flow Acrylic Paint to the awnings and roofs of the houses.
- Use the Sun Rays stencil to add sun rays behind the houses and lengthen the rays with a ruler. I made use of Portfolio Water-Soluble Oil Pastels for this – use the Inkssentials Craft Nib to blend the pastels as it fits in tight spaces where your fingers can’t. I also used the oil pastels to shade around the flowers.
- I created some flowers on watercolour paper the same way as in step 6 & 7 and cut out the flowers and leaves. Create some dimension on the flowers and leaves by rubbing and blending oil pastels to the edges. Adhere to the page with Multi Medium Matte.
- Colour in the pavement blocks with a Oil Pastel in Gray and blend with a water brush. Shade around the houses with oil pastels.
- Add some final details to the houses with Faber-Castell Big Brush pens.
- Finally add the quote and the date with a Sharpie Extra Fine Point White Paint Marker.
Youtube video:
