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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Shape Up!

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.