Playing with media.

Last month I went to a Media weekend at Art From The Heart.  It was taught by Dyan

 

We arrived on the Friday evening to a pile of paper, textured, ribbed, watercolour, kraft etc. By the end of the weekend I'd made this:

It was a great opportunity to try out all sorts of media and decide what you liked using and what you didn't.  My favourites were the Dylusion Inks and golden acrylic paints. I found I preferred inktense sticks to artbars and pan pastels are so vibrant.

 It's amazing what you can do with stencils when you think outside the box.

We were all asked what our least favourite colour was and then given that colour to play with!

Mine was orange, but with a touch of pink and some gesso I actually found I liked it.

Here's a lemon and lime page:

This is my first attempt at Art Journalling:

A little twee maybe, but it says what I wanted to say.  I don't think it's finished yet.

It's great to dip in and out of and has helped keep my mojo flowing and is a great record of all the techniques we used and media we tried.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Lynne x

 

 

 

Comments

[jayne]

This is a great way to experiment, Learn new techniques & have a piece of art at the end of it. Love what you have done so far x

[Leanne]

I'm a mixed media lover, and think you've made a great start on a journal there - can't wait to see where you go from here- please update us soon! x

[Katherine]

Gorgeous...I sooooo need to have a go at this :)

[Mandy]

Wow... Looks like you had an amazing time!

[Erika]

Looks like lots of inky fun there Lynne.
Hugs Erika.