A New Journ

Finished it! That journal I was talking about in my previous post, that is ;) It was handmade from a large sheet of Canson watercolor paper and a little help from Teesha Moore via YouTube. I love it! I already have ideas for the second and third one (and need new sheets of paper after that, lol).

A New Journ
Journal, handmade
Mixed media on watercolor paper

New Style

More ATCs fun! Love this style I've discovered. Involving a spray painted background with an acrylic focal image on top, plus some lines, journaling, and patterns. Thinking of doing an entire art journal this way!

ATCs Again

Finally got back on the ATCs horse. Hope you like them!

Swap: Illustrated Encouragement
Acrylics

Swap: Steampunk Fairy Tales
Acrylics on mixed media background

Journal Spread 6

Trying to mix fine art with mixed media. I really want this to take a couple of steps further, but for now, this was a fun experiment. 

Inspire Create
Mixed media on journal spread

Art Journal Fun

Having fun in my journal! Still trying out new toys and techniques, but also getting rid of some ideas. I hope to turn some of these spreads into canvas art at some point.

Mixed media, too many to name, but I will tell you that the coffee was done with soft pastels. In case you were wondering :)

Imagination is more important than Knowledge
Mixed media on journal spread

Morning Coffee
Mixed media on journal spread

Valentine Tag Walkthrough

Made a Valentine's Tag, inspired by 12 Tags of 2013 - February, over at Tim Holtz's blog. I'm not sure I followed the rules, but the stamp that's used in the example is one that I don't have. And since I have spent way too much money on new supplies recently (there was an awesome arts & crafts fair here in NL not too long ago), I couldn't afford to buy the queen of hearts stamp. So I improvised! 

Most of the supplies you will see here are new and bought at the fair. Now, down to business! (Scroll down to see the end result.)

Valentine's Tag

#8 Manila tag dragged through Distress Inks.
Colors: Fired Brick, Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar.

Distressed the sides with the distresser
and colored them with the blending tool and Fired Brick.

Added Script to the background with Distress Ink Fired Brick.

Created a label from pink card stock and punched a heart from it.
Stamped hearts on that same card stock and cut them out. 

Colored a piece of string, because the original color
of the string didn't fit the color scheme I was working with.

Because I don't have stamps in the Blue Print line (yet),
I decided to draw my own and colored it with Copic markers.

I glued the separate elements on the tag.

Because I felt that the colored hearts didn't
fit the color scheme and because I wanted to ad
some glitter, I went over them with
Twinkling H2Os: Jasmine and Love Struck.

I also added the string and glued hearts at
the ends, because the ends were ugly looking.

Finally, I added a string with beads to the top.

New Toys and Productivity

Been playing around with my new toys. That is to say, all the stuff I bought on a 'local' arts & crafts fair. I spent so much money there, it's not even funny anymore. But it's awesome to play around with all my new supplies. As the images below testify :)

Love and Art
Journal spread
Mixed media: Acrylics, collage, stamps

Turn and Turn
Journal spread
Mixed media: Ink misters, acrylics,
water-soluble crayons, stencils, stamps, label

Wonder Always
ATC
Mixed media: Ink misters, acrylics,
water-soluble crayons, stamps

January Art Envelope

Trying my hand at creating art videos. I love watching them, so I thought, why not make them myself as well? Maybe they'll be useful to others.

Anyway, since it's only a try-out, this one is just about adding a bit of text to a previously created altered envelope. Hope you like it anyway!

January Altered Envelope
Mixed media on envelope
A5

Neon Experiment

My neon experiment. I painted the background of this canvas neon pink - a very unnatural color - and then tried a realistic landscape on top. Fun! Also, no orange was used...

Neon Pink
Acrylics and mixed media
Canvas

November Art Envelope

Finished my November art envelope.

November Art Envie
Mixed media on envelope
A5

A Castle on the Ground

Built a castle today...

Okay, painted one. But still! Quite happy with it, too.

Castle
Acrylics/mixed media
ATC

Circles and WIP

Having fun with mixed media and circular mini canvasses.

Mixed media on canvas
(collage, stencil, acrylics, pencil)

And something else I'm working on. My very first large canvas! Yay! Lots of fun and learning here ^_^

ManMade (WIP)
Acrylics on canvas
(40 x 50 cm)

My Little Brother in the Sky continued

Hello!

Though I'm super busy at the moment, I haven't been completely inactive. Been working on my storybook idea. Redid the earlier illustration and played around with it in Indesign. I like how it came out.

I know the clouds on the left page look off. They've been cut out and copy/pasted from the right page. I still need to make individual clouds for the left page.

SGA comic no. 2

Well, this is the sequal to my previous SGA comic. I wanted to stick to the art/craft look and had a lot of fun with it, too. Plus, the whole thing is (supposed to be) funny, so I had my laughs while making this.

I know there are major stereotypes in there and I did not mean to offend anyone. I just saw Sheppard hangin' like that in my head and I had to draw it.

Did this with ink, colored ink, colored pencil, and collage. Enjoy!

SGA (c) MGM

Sketch Dump

Whooooo! I finally got around to do some drawing! And, since I finished my illustration course (finally), I get to draw what I want! Yay!
But no, in all fairness, that course was great. I made some pretty fun and cool things during that course, so I'll scan and show them in the near future.
Other than that, now that I've finished that part of my mandatory drawing process, I thought of setting myself some goals and assignments to keep drawing. As some of you know, I've collected quite some drawing books over the years. Now I plan to make at least one drawing from each book and save and collect all of those in a folder, like I did with my illustration course. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with myself. Lol.

But anyway, here are some drawings by me. It's a sketch dump and a couple of the sketches are of Daniel from ARC. I really like Daniel, which is a good thing, but also a bad thing, because I neglect the other characters. But oh well, I'll see to them soon enough. I have time now! Yay!