Art Journal Adventure: August 2017

So in between my October projects, I managed to complete my August pages.

The Art Journal Adventure is hosted at Joggles.com and they have a Facebook group for sharing. Find the details on the link.

Let's dive!

Week 32: Water: Octopi:  With the theme of water, I just decided to pull out all the octopus stamps I have. (and wouldn't you know I did forget one. On the up side, it's probably too large to make it into a single page layout along with all the rest.) I'm not a big fan of fussy cutting so I knew I wanted to stamp the octopus on the page directly. I'm also not a big fan of coloring in a background around focal images. Sooo...I stamped the octopi directly over the blue background. I used Moonlight Sakura gelly roll pens to color them in. It worked way better than I thought it would. Those pens are really opaque so they came out well on the colored surface. (I did lose some color intensity as it dried but I didn't mind that as these sea creatures are supposed to be underwater.)    

Week 33: Mythology/Fairy Tales: St. George and the Dragon:  This was just a quick page with nothing special about it. I just wanted to preserve that sheet of paper I've been hoarding for years. Remember that Once Upon a Time paper pack from DCWV? I think you can still get it. The papers are so cool that I don't like to use them. So why not just preserve the stuff I like.

Week 34: Patchwork or Mosaic: Luna:  I called this page Luna because the sticky snippet in the center (on the yellow square) reminds me of the moon. It has a lot more detail to it that the photo suggests. All these bits of paper came out of my scrap pile and I used up some old stickers as well. The doodling is done with a metallic gelly roll pen.

 Week 35: Collage:  Butterfly Kiss:  When I decide to do a collage, I generally start with a color palette. I had just received my new Dylusions colors so decided to test some out here. I used Rose Quartz and Lilac paint on the background then added stenciling with the Lilac spray. I really liked the soft pink and found the photo of the woman (as seen below) to match it well. That led me down a victorian, romantic, shabby chic, floral, soft lilac and pink path. All my collage elements were arranged in a horizontal line then I added the vertical. 

Even though I have a page of similar color in this journal, I decided to add a butterfly just like that one. Well, almost. This is the new butterfly stamp I have...the one from the new Dyan Reaveley set. The set with the tentacles. (I have no shame in admitting that I bought the set for the tentacles. I've got a million butterflies it seems but I had to have those tentacles! Those will be showing up soon.) I cut the butterfly from some scraps of already sprayed paper and just glued her down. These might be Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays...leftover from my Masquerade page.

So that's August. Not sure when I'll get September done as I'm using my art time for October projects. We'll see what September brings. Have a great week.
-Wy