Hi Everyone,
last time I posted a new tutorial I was still in short sleeves. All of a sudden winter is here and I am sitting next to a heater and swaddled in layers of clothing! The early mornings and late afternoons are quite cold here on the highveld, but luckily the sun is shining during the day!
I once again designed 2 new stencils and gives it a test drive on this art journal page - Star Flowers and Butterflies 3.
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| Journal page - Butterfly by Sareana van As |
SUPPLIES
NEEDED:
Strathmore
9x12 Visual Journal - Bristol Smooth Paper
Liquitex
Clear Gesso
Ranger Mini
Ink Blending Tool
Distress
Ink Pads -Festive Berries, Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed
&
Picked Raspberry
Heritage 3D
Contour Paste Gel - Matte (Gel Medium)
Heritage
Artist’s Acrylic - Pearl #06 & Brilliant Gold #M13
Stencil-Art
Stencils - Star Flowers, Butterflies 1, Butterflies 3, Flowers Mixed & Dots
Small
Mul-Tex
Laminated Mulberry Fiber Sheet
Lindy
Stampgang Starburst Sprays - Poinsettia Red Gold & Jazzy Jivin’ Purple
Lindy
Stampgang Moon Shadow Mist - Smoky Sapphire
Ranger
Multi Medium Matte
Distress Paint
- Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door & Mowed Lawn
Zig 2-Way
Glue Pen
Big Brush
pens - Black #199, Permanent Green Olive #167, Deep Scarlet Red #219 &
Cadmium
Yellow #107
Lisa
Pavelka Craft Foil Sheets - Rainbow
Faber-Castell
Pitt Artists pens - black
Sharpie
White Extra fine point paint marker
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Apply Liquitex Clear Gesso with a paintbrush through the Star Flowers stencil. As always I will let each layer dry (either with the heat tool or let it stand for a while) before adding any new layer of medium on top.
- Use the mini ink blending tool to apply Distress Inks in a circular motion to the page. I used Festive Berries, Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.
- Distress Inks will always reactivate with liquid so I will seal this layer with Gel Medium so that I can add more layers of wet mediums on top.
- Dab some Pearly Acrylic paint with the mini ink blending tool through the Butterflies 1 stencil to add just a faint pearly shimmer of flying butterflies to the background.
- Cut a piece of Mul-Tex large enough so that the butterfly from the Butterflies 3 stencil will fit in and stick it down to the craft sheet with some masking tape.
- Colour the Piece of Mul-Tex with Lindy Stampgang Sprays and set aside to dry. I used Starburst Poinsettia Red Gold, Starburst Jazzy Jivin’ Purple and Moon Shadow Smoky Sapphire.
- I always clean my stencils and excess paints and inks in the local telephone directory. I just love using this tissue paper for collage in my art journal.
- Choose some of the papers and draw flowers and leaves with the Flowers Mixed stencil with a white Sharpie paint marker. I designed this stencil specifically with doodling in mind. Then continue to cut out all the shapes.
- Draw the butterfly with a Gold pen on the coloured Mul-Tex and cut it out. The Mul-Tex kept on curling so I scrunched it up so that it can lay flat.
- I moved my collage elements around until I was satisfied with the placement and adhered it with Multi Medium Matte by Ranger.
- The red butterfly was standing out to much so I painted it with acrylic metallic paint in Brilliant Gold by Heritage to give it a more of an orangy colour. This metallic paint is translucent so the bottom layers of colour will show trough.
- I adhered the Butterflies 3 stencil with masking tape to the page and use the Dots Small stencil to add texture with Distress Paint dabbers in Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Barn Door, again drying in between each addition of colour. Then add some dots of Mowed Lawn Distress paint to the bottom of the page.
- Use a Zig 2-Way Glue Pen to add details to the butterfly. While I wait for the glue to turn from blue to clear once sticky, I draw the stems with a Green Olive Big Brush pen and add the leaves with Multi Medium.
- Gently adhere the Craft foil with a paint brush or you fingers to the butterfly. The foil will adhere to the glue. You’ll see that I waited too long and the glue started drying. For best results the glue must still be sticky. Use the glue and foil to add antennas to the butterfly.
- Mark out the lines for the quote and write a rough outline for the words with a pencil. Once I was happy with the layout of the words, I went over the outlines with a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush pen and filled it in with the black Big Brush pen.
- Use your white Sharpie Paint pen and black Pitt Artist pens to add details, outlines and doodles to the butterfly, flowers and leaves. Use the Flowers Mixed stencils as necessary.
- Add vines and tiny leaves to the words with the Green Olive Big Brush pen and outline the words with the white Sharpie paint pen. Doodle a border around the page and then add tiny flowers to the words with the Deep Scarlet Red Big Brush pen.
- Lastly shade around the butterfly, flowers and leaves with Big Brush pens in Deep Scarlet Red, Green Olive and Cadmium Yellow.
- I always finish off my page with the date stamp!
