More Zentangles and hot glue

I'll tell ya - I had a bit of a hard time remembering how to use a compass properly from math class!….but I finally got the hang of it again.  I had fun filling in all the sections and learned to do a new sort of flower and leaves.

For Donna Downey's Inspiration Wednesday this time round we used hot glue guns to create our own stencils.  What fun!  I will be making more of these for sure.

Especially when the pages turn out like this.  I put gesso on the pages as a bottom coat, put down the stencils (once they were hard and dry) and then painted with watercolours, letting the stencils stay where they were while the paint dried.

You can't tell from the picture, but the paper sort of rippled into the stencils too - probably because it wasn't water-colour paper.

I will definitely be doing this again.  Tons of fun!

Create Something everyday.

Joan

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

 Agnes Martin

Releasing…twice

One of our projects for the Novel Approach workshop was to create a grudgy background using NeocolorII crayons and covering it with bits of acrylic paint - you can see the scribbles in the background.  Release is my word for the year - so I decided to doodle it onto the page.  I ended up misspelling it - but I was able to sneak the A in and incorporate it into the doodle.  Yay.

I quite enjoy doing these grids with the little pictures I am forever cutting out and keeping.  This was an exercise for our Novel Approach workshop, but instead of just leaving the painted background, which was green in this case, I did a favourite zentangle over top and I quite like the effect.

Try something new from time to time when you create something everyday.

Joan

Double spread Zentangle

I have a large found paper book that I created which is 12 x 12.  The page sizes inside vary quite a bit, and I love working in it.  I did this piece back in December.  

The paper is actually one of my Stampin'Up! place mats.  I covered it with circles and a couple of rectangles. (which I traced!)  Then I filled all the spaces with different zentangles.  It is one of my favourite pieces that I've done.

I still didn't get any doodling done last night - I made cookies in the afternoon to take to church for our soup supper before our Lenten service and then I had choir practice…..busy busy!  So I'm leaving you with blasts from the past.

Have a good day….here are some close ups of the two pages.