I just LOVE this stencil! I used different colors of acrylic paint through the stencil, then sponged a bit more atound the edges to finish it off.
This pg is a little weird I think. Of course I scraped paint first. Then I dribbled som black ink and blew on it so it would run. Then I dribbled some plum color wash spray ink and blew on it. After it all dried I decided to stencil some bright flowers in yellow acrylic. You can see though that where the paint is on the color wash ink it bleeds through. I like the way it turned out, but it was unexpected. I'm taking Julie Balzer's stencil class. Haven't actually been able to start yet- I'm hoping to feel well enough today to start. I'm really enjoying using stencils- there's tons you can do with them!
Happy Monday!
Great pages! I have that same stencil and I use it quite a lot. The spray inks will always bleed through paint or gesso. Sometimes it can be a very interesting effect. I like it on your flower page.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing Julie's stencil class too. I hope you feel better today so you can play a little bit.
Shawn, to answer your question as to why I use phone book pages....they're easy to find, almost everyone has them readily available, they don't cost anything, and they free me up because if I make a bad drawing I'm not wasting good paper.
ReplyDeleteWhen I have the basic drawing done on the phone book page I adhere it to some watercolor paper or some Bristol paper and it just adds more texture and interest in the background.
Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI really like your page with the flowers, fantastic :]