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Michelle Ward's GPP Street Team BlogCrusade No. 27 is calledShape Up!She challenged us to explorea shape: think positive & negative,large & small...
These Art Journal pages were first paintedwith watercolors for the background.Primitive bird shapes were cutfrom paper and then pastelsapplied to the bird shape. I laidthe shape onto the journal pageand rubbed the pastel fromthe stencil onto the journalpage, creating a stencil of the negativeshape. Hand-carved bird stampswere added & quotes in calligraphy.I also included the stencil shapesby gluing them to the page as well.
Michelle Ward's Green Pepper PressStreet Team Crusade No. 28 is"Portion Control."The idea is that a portion of an image,obscured, embellished, or cropped, etc.is much more interesting thanthe plain complete imagein the center of the paper.Some of my supplies areshown above...
These are my Art Journal pagescreated with the goal of "portion control."My previous post showing theexploration of the primitive shapeof a bird is continued...
I used crayons & watercolorfor a resist, portions of poemsin my own handwriting,hand-carved stamps,black acrylic paint,and both the positive andnegative portions ofmy stencils.
