Graffiti Art

Graffiti artists create a 'Tag Name'

for themselves,

a sort of self-invention. Like other artists,

they want their name to be 'out there'~~

to make their name and their art

widely known and recognizable.

'Tag' to fit in a business-sized envelope. (above)

Used graffiti style lettering and images.

Craft acrylic paint, Zig pen,

and white gel pen. Inspired by

a graffiti wall with many layers of paint...

Back of tag.

Origami paper, scrapbook paper,

crayon resist & acrylic,

Zig pen & white gel pen.

The tag is to be removed

from the painted/stenciled

envelope below.

Letters stenciled directly onto

envelope painted with acrylics,

and also onto other pieces of

cardstock, then glued on.

Crayon and pen markings

added to background.

These are all part of the Scrappy Green Journal.

Elizabeth had included the yellow

Police Line tape, and I thought 

"Why not Graffiti?"

I drew the little 'cartoon kid', 

applied watercolor, then inked in.

Copyright Dianne Bishop Carey 2011

Petroglyphs: Journal of Antiquities

Petroglyph: Petro-combined form, meaning rock or stone; Glyphs-a shallow vertical channel or carved fluting. (Greek- glyphein: to carve)

After a recent movie night, where I watched

the DVD of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,

I decided that a Journal of Antiquities

would be a fun project.  Indie's dad, Henry Sr.,

had spent years creating

a research journal of all the clues

to finding the Holy Grail. Of course it was

chased  all the way through the movie

and passes through many hands,

both villain and hero...

cryptic clues, diagrams and

drawings make it pretty cool...

I purchased a small journal with

pages 3 1/2" x 5 1/2 ".

I began my search for treasure in a

reference book in our local library.

Amazing diagrams, photos,

maps and explanations fill the book...

Native Americans taking the time to

carve these in stone with

primitive tools must have been

a labor of love, or perhaps

a search for power...

The author of the book didn't claim to know

what these human figures represented.

I have to say it looks to me like there

is some hanky-panky going on!

Perhaps a fertility drawing?

~~~

My antiquities 'research' will continue as

I am fond of ancient cultures and their art:

Egyptian, Mayan, Native American.

There may be some European religious Icons to

be drawn and admired.

Take the journey with me...

Art Journal Collage

More pages in the 

Scrappy Green Journal created by

Elizabeth of Altered Book Lover.

I enjoy getting to work

on the substrates that she

made as they are often 

unexpected and stretch my

skills in new ways.

The square with bird & Tweet is

a pocket which can hold 

tags or other bits of

ephemera.  I don't "Tweet"

but couldn't resist the 

word and the bird together...

I've never outgrown paper dolls.

These are a couple that I just

did this week. Maybe it's silly

but it's "my party, and I'll make

paper dolls if I want to."

This one has a fashion magazine

face, drawn over with marker.

I drew the face on this one--

it has a watercolor background,

stamping, drawing, and a 

wallpaper scrap glued on.

In other news, I got a small journal in which 

to start making mysterious drawings 

and diagrams, ala Henry Jones.

(Indiana Jones dad)

I am going to start with diagrams of 

Native American glyphs from

the Ohio river area...

who knows what treasures will

be uncovered?

Art Journal Pages

Had fun doing the images on these pages,but for some reason "writer's block" struck...so used some quotes that I found inspiring.Watercolor background...

Assorted scrapbook paper snippetsadhered to outside borders, magazine clippingsof flowers and the girl's body. I drew the headand glued it above the body, having fun withthe exaggerated proportions.Doodling and writing added withMicron Pigma pen. A few bits of addedcolor in Sanford Uniball gel pen...