Today's project has been done in response to Wednesday's blog by Barbara Gray. Barbara suggested we all make a piece of artwork which says "Make Art Not War" ... well here is my contribution:
First I wrote out the word ART on of a piece of A4 paper and carefully cut around the letters to give me two masks - the first mask being the three letters and the second mask being the outer section.
Starting with the decoration of the letters, I glued the outer mask onto a piece of white 300gsm card with repositionable glue (and whatever you do, don't use permanent glue by mistake. Yes I'll admit it ... been there, done that, learnt from my earlier mistake!).
With my background area now protected, I placed a Claritystamp Chinese Lanterns 7x7 inch stencil on top of my mask and inked up a 6x6 inch gelli plate with two colours (Teal Zeal Memento Ink and Wild Honey Distress Ink). Using the gelli plate I smooshed the inks through the stencil to fill in the letters with an imprint of the lantern design:
For the next step I removed the outer mask and temporarily attached the three cut-out letters to mask off the word allowing me to work on the background. At this stage I also attached one of the Claritystamp sun/moon masks.
I created a sky behind the ART letters by brushing two colours of Memento Ink (Teal Zeal and Paris Dusk) across the top half of the card. When happy with the colour of the sky I removed the sun mask and used a light dusting of Distress Wild Honey to take away the whiteness of the sun. A waterbrush dragged lightly across the sun and sky gives the idea of a few whispy clouds. The grass was created in a similar style by brushing Memento Cottage Ivy across the lower half of the card - torn paper was used to give the hill outlines.
The figures are from Claritystamp Wee Folk Set 1, stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and the boxed words were created using Claritystamp Woodpress Letters stamped in Memento Northern Pine.
To anchor the letters and people onto the grass I used a make-up sponge to apply a small amount of the Cottage Ivy ink. For the finishing touches a black Micron pen was used to outline the word ART and draw a couple of flocks of birds in the sky.
I hope you like my finished project and it inspires you to create your own piece of artwork.
Happy crafting,
Carolyn x
This is really lovely Carolyn. The trick with the water pen for the clouds is great, and I love the way your beautiful ART letters appear to be growing out of the ground. And of course, a brilliant sentiment we can all buy into!
ReplyDeleteThank you Lucinda. This was an interesting project to do and Barbara has certainly made us all think about this sentiment and the world in which we live. Carolyn x
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