Showing posts with label inspired. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspired. Show all posts

Friday, 12 March 2010

AJC10 Week 10 - To be free at Last - Scrap-inspired by Fran Horne

(Forgive the quality of the photo - the piece is red, white and black).

Last Saturday, I took the decision to go to Malvern, a place where I used to live when I was first married. My first marriage was short but was mentally abusive and whilst I love Malvern, there's still a small part of me that fears going there. Anyway, despite feeling nervous, I survived, and found that an art exhibition was on in one of the shops. The artist (Fran Horne) is a book artist and the exhibition was inspiring, as the artist's style could easily be adapted for art journalling. Her website shows some of the work that was on exhibition http://www.franhorne.co.uk/ and my page above is inspired by her work. The page is from "The Self-Esteem Companion" by McKay, Fanning, Honeychurch and Sutker, a book that I accidently ordered twice, but rather than send it back, I thought I would alter one copy and then I saw the Fran Horne Exhibition and it felt serendipendous to do that to a page. The page on "Freeing Your Body" appeared to be relevant for this week

Pens - Kuretake

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

AJC10: Week 5 - Bloom where you Grow


The Blog of the Week for this week's Art Journal journey is Cori Dantini's and her art inspired the above picture. I haven't draw anything for a long time so getting pencil and watercolour paper out was daunting but that why they make pencil rubbers :). I pencilled out the idea and then used my black pen to go round everything using the thicker end to frame the drawing. I used watercolour pens and wetted the drawn hair, adding some pink lines from a sharpie to darken some highlights.
Credits:
Pink background paper and lime green paper used for frame - Studio Mgl scraps, Dreams in Colour 2.0 papers
Watercolour paper, A5 acid-free Sketch Pad, bought from local supermarket
Watercolour pencils - Derwent Inktense pencils
Black pen - Kuretake
Pink and Aqua Sharpie markers
Grey flock sticker - My Mind's Eye, Self adhesive Bloom and Grow Felt Border