Wanderlust : The art of painterliness

Gosh it's been a month since I posted a Wanderlust lesson! When I was prepping a page in my large art journal with black gesso for a recent A Year of Mary lesson, I decided to also prep a spread in my smaller Wanderlust journal for a lesson with Kate Crane on the theme of Texture. Kate shared texture in a painterly style using larger brushes and all sorts of found texture tools. This lesson was about being loose and free in your art journaling, with a focus on making marks, and creating lots of layers. Plus she adds stitched embellishments which are always a winner in my book. All that = loved this lesson.  

It's been dreary weather here this past weekend and we can't go anywhere cos of lockdown so I've been making the most of creative time. So grateful I have art in my life to escape into and to replenish me. See all my other posts about this class HERE.

A Year of Mary : Pay attention

I love Effy Wild's "A Year of Mary" monthly lessons and am having a bit of a catch-up. I've been picking my lessons using a random number generator. It's time for August's lesson and Effy used Autumnal colours but encouraged us to use colours that are reflective of our situation. We are still officially in Winter here in New Zealand but are being blessed with some gorgeous days of sunshine to hint at Spring....also my Magnolia is starting to bloom which always makes me want to use pink. 

This was a layered technique using glazes or washes of colour over white doodles. I used white ink for mine and they faded into my watercolour background.

But I love the look with my glazes added over the top - these paints are fluid acrylics and for this technique I just used a few drops of colour with water added to give more transparency

I took a photo of her to use as a print on future cards before I added the quote

And here's the finished spread - I was thrilled to find the gold rub-on letters in my stash.

Effy Wild is doing "A Year of Mary" as a monthly lesson exclusively on her Patreon at the $5 (speed painting) or $10 (full length tutorial and PDF) per month levels. Lessons are released mid-month. See all my art from this class HERE.

52 Tags : Week 34

I'm participating in Anne Brooke's weekly Tag challenge. You can view her demo each week on Youtube #52tagshannemade. Week 34 : A lovely cuppa. This was a really cool challenge and a chance for me to mix things up again - I love using paper and fabric together. 

The "tea bag" tag is a New Zealand stamp and that together with the butterfly and button are the only bits hand stitched this time. I began by gluing a tea bag to some coffee bean scrapbook paper.

I fused the fabric cup and steam to the paper before machine stitching the layers together. Glued the coffee bean paper background to the tag right at the end. Very appropriate - drinking lots of coffee, fruit tea, and the occasional glass of wine during this lockdown. This link will take you to all of my posts about this challenge.