Art Journal - Shapes and Compositions

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Here is a cute 8'X8' art journal I made on Misty Mawn new workshop, using collage, acrylics and stabilo pencil. Backgrounds were created with paynes gray, titanium buff and raw umber, using scraper, then added collage, stamps, stencils, washi tapes, and drawings. It took 2 hours of preparation and 8 of execution and was lots of fun. 16 pages of yummy ideas on what to paint on a large scale next. And yay - I discovered I can paint a whimsical face! I thought I can only do realistic ones, and just look at these!

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Some hand-carved stamps I used in this project:

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Here is some backgrounds before I added collage. Feel free to use them for your collages or digital work:

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These two look like landscapes:

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