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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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Air drying clay pots

This was my 4th ever try at pottery, I totally sucked the first 2 times. The 1st try was 20 years ago, my clay sculpture was so ugly that I still remember how disappointed I was in my absence of pottery talent. 2nd try was 3 years ago, I made 3 mini pots, fired them in the kiln and glazed them, and totally hate these ugly creatures, even now. I decided to give up on clay. And then came Misty with her online workshop "Full Circle" and inspired me to try the clay again. This time I pulled off a very cute owl, and 2 weeks late I actually got 5 functional pots for my art room tools. Yeaa!

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I used to use this plastic container for my brushes and now made a duplicate out of air drying clay. So much more character!

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I just want to share where I learned to make a face from air drying clay, in this small simple well explained workshop of Jennifer Rizzo. She just rolls small balls and sausages in her hands and press them into face to create cheeks, chin, lips, eyes etc. So simple!

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Ok, I admit, I bought these stones at the craft shop to insert into my pot while the clay is still wet. They can be easily made, but it saved me some time:

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This weird one I call "Organic Pot". I found this organic matter (some kind of coral) also at the craft shop. I first made and dried the pot, then smudged modelling paste all over it and pressed the grass into the paste. Once dry, I treated coral with Poertex (hardening agent), it didn't solidify it but made it harder. After it dried, I trimmed excess of he grass and painted pot in raw umber and grass in Renaissance Gold acrylic. If I had to do it again, I would add color to the modelling paste before smudging it on the pot, because later it was very hard to get into all white spots around the grass, trying to paint the pot.

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Easiest way to make a cool pot is stamps! I rolled slab of clay into this old carved wooden tray and when I lifted the slab - the print was on the other side of it. Put the sides of slab together, attach round bottom - and you got the pot. Will definitely do this one again, such a time saver. I also pressed some wooden beads into clay for extra texture.

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Last pot: I made it plain and simply so I could paint on it like on canvas:

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My clay owl-woman with pocket in front:

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Mixed Media Dream Box - Journal about dreams

Here is my finished box of Dreams, made with sturdy 300 lb paper, collage, stamps, sowing and embellishments. The only thing missing is filling it with my list of dreams I would like to come true and may be some quotes about dreams. Idea of 3-dimensional journal is very interesting, it's never going to be tucked away on the shelf with other books, but instead, like all sculptures will stand out and scream "pick me! open me!" Collage designed in a way that there is space to write my thoughts on, there are actually 25+ mini pages to write on, wow.

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Few completed art projects.

Photographic project, titled "Day in my life" was fun and fairly easy one to do. I did some photoshop enhancement on the orange color and it came out quite well:

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Made this cute sculpture of a folk owl-woman using air-drying clay and acrylics. Added pocket in front to hold something in, may be business cards? (Etsy Shop)

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Gessoed vintage 1910 music book to transform it into an art journal. The cover before:

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The cover after:

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Vintage book primed with gesso and added collage:

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Did some value studies for Misty Mawn workshop "Full Circle". Still life by the window:

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Victorian girl. (Etsy Shop):

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