Saturday, November 30, 2013
Adding Stamped Images to Your Inked Backgrounds
Friday, November 29, 2013
Butterfly Magic
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Hazardous-Reviews, Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Unfamiliar with Hazardous-Reviews? Well, that's something we hope to change.
Hazardous-Reviews is a website/movie review blog written and managed by my son, Jason Hendon. He reviews various genres of movies, including movies in theatres, on Redbox, and Netflix.
Today, Hazardous-Reviews has posted a critique of Catching Fire, giving it a 5 out of 5 stars. I've only seen him do that one time before. Click on the link here to read his review.
Love These Colors!
Monday, November 25, 2013
Guest Artist Nancy Wigley
Today I want to share some artistic backgrounds from Nancy Wigley. Nancy is a Facebook friend I met through my The Creator's Leaf page. She has been following my artisitic endeavors for a while now, which led to Nancy giving the inks and sprays a try out of her own.
To make this beautiful blue background you see above, Nancy used Dylusions Ink Spray's London Blue on 100 lb. Strathmore Bristol Board. She first sprayed water onto the board, then spritzed the London Blue on top. Then Nancy added more water, finding that she could use the water to manipulate where the color went. (In the process, she also sprayed her fingers blue, as well as a box sitting on her work surface.) To get the cool designs you see, Nancy placed a stencil over the wet surface, and spritzed more London Blue through the stencil. I love the way it turned out! This one is my favorite!
For this one, Nancy used Dylusions Ink Sprays Fresh Lime and Pure Sunshine (two of my favorites!) Using the same paper, Nancy sprayed the inks onto a dry board, then used water to move the colors around. She blotted the excess water with kleenex, then spritzed ink onto a stamp and stamped images onto the wet paper. I really like the way this one turned out also!
This one is Nancy's favorite! She used the same paper, Dylusions Ink Spray Postbox Red, and Heidi Swapp's Mint Green Color Shine Spray. Again, she layed down the color first, then moved it with water, blotting with a kleenex. That green color shine spray has some fantastic sparkle in it, that unfortunately does not typically photograph.
Nancy offers a tip of taping down your watercolor paper to your work surface. Leaving it taped down until the paper dries helps minimize paper warping.
Nancy, thank you so much for sharing your beautiful backgrounds! These inks are so much fun to work with, and you got some really super results! I can not wait to see what you use these for!
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Making Backgrounds
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Diva Challenge #145
Today I felt like playing with some color. This is one of those blown out rings I showed you how to create two posts back. It just screamed sea urchin to me and thankfully I was perusing Sandy Steen Bartholomew's book Totally Tangled and came across this tangle by Sandra Strait - called urchin! It fits perfectly with the circles and I love the way it turned out.
Monday, November 18, 2013
A Little Christmas Fun
There's some more of that awesome, intentional feathering.
www.thecreatorsleaf.blogspot.com
alice hendon
- clear ornaments,
- Ranger Alcohol Inks,
- Compressed air.
And that is literally all you need. I didn't even need my towel! And the whole project took less than 5 minutes to make three ornaments. Now that I know it works, I will probably go buy more ornaments and make some more! Once again, thanks, Sandy!
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