Mission Inspiration & Artist Gang

I haven't only been doing Icad cards - I've been doing other stuff too.  The above journal spread is the May Mission Inspiration.  The first thing we were to do was to use three colours to create drips on the page.  I used three shades of green and used them as the stems for the daises.  The daisies are created with molding paste which I outlined and coloured.  The butterflies are "collage elements".  I had to add some glitter or gems, so it was quite convenient that the yellow cut out butterfly already had gems on it in the photo - so I just took some gold gems and added them on top.  I love this challenge because the outcomes from everyone who participates are all so different.  So much fun!

This spread is from one of the Artist Gang from this year's Inspiration Wednesday.  I don't mind this page, but I am not one for leaving this much empty space - which is why I added so many speckles.  I do like how the right side of the page turned out though!

Create something everyday.

Joan

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. 

Pablo Picasso

Mission Inspiration

Here is another Mission Inspiration of 10 prompts.  One of the prompts was to turn the book upside down and then add paint drips - I did that, keeping the book upside down for a couple more prompts, but it wasn't' until I turned the book over again, that my treble and bass clefs were upside down - oh well - I covered them with a bit of music…..which I took artistic licence on, because the prompt was to add text from a book.  Well - I decided that the text from a music book is - music.  Tada.

Create Something Everyday,

Joan

"Painting is not a means of communication or even self-expression, but rather a process of discovering, or uncovering. "  Louis de Brocquy

Mission Inspiration for February

I've been enjoying doing these little missions with a list of 10 prompts to go through that need to be incorporated into the piece.  So far I've read the requirements and then watched Mike Deakin's video and I haven't veered much from what he's done.  So, I think for the next one I'm just going to read the prompts and go from there. It's always up to personal interpretation anyway - right!

Create Something Everyday.

Joan

" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."  Vincent Van Gogh

Pros and Cons and Butterflies

This was fun spread to do for Muse30.  I tried going through my box of words - but couldn't come up with everything I wanted.  So I  just went to magazines and cut the prefixes of the words that went had "pro" or "con".  I also used my label maker to add words that were more difficult to find, but which I wanted to have added to the spread.  A stencil with sharpie was used for the headings and the "winning" banner was made with a piece of linen ribbon written on with sharpie.

This was another page that I had a lot of fun doing!  I follow Mike Deakin  on Youtube and decided to try one of his "Mission Inspiration" - what fun.  He gave a 10 point criteria that had to be completed on the journal spread - step by step.  However, I had the 1st and 10th criteria already in my journal waiting to be worked with - so I started from there.  It's fun to see all the different ways that people interpreted the list too. Tons of fun, and I really enjoy his other videos.   I will probably go back and do some of the other Mission Inspirations.

The butterflies on this spread are punched with our Stampin'Up! punch and the flowers were cut out of a seed magazine .  The greenery is stencilled and then outlined. Swishes of paint and credit card markings of paint also. 

Create something everyday.

Joan