Good Lawd ! Am I ever glad the working part of Monday is over ! Once again I clawed my way through the work. Days like this I could do without workwise, but I let it go as soon as I clocked off my work station. It wasn't quite as horrible as I make it sound, but it really wasn't fun. Work should be fun don't you think? In the perfect world I suppose.
Since my family chose to do our Easter meal on Saturday, I had yesterday to myself. I was the laziest bum you could ever imagine.
I didn't know what I was going to start next, so I chose to do some more arty papers for tearing up and gluing. That seems weird to create something to tear up, doesn't it?
This time I chose to make marks and use stencils over coloring book and doodle book pages. I thought having something busy in the background might add interest.
So I made marks and swirls and yadda yadda over whatever was already there, obscuring the original design and of course, since I will only use torn off pieces, the original will be unrecognizable.
I also marked up the edges too so I could use that as well.
I used some colored markers before the black on this one.
Upclose was pretty neat with the layers.
This was the back of an elephant 😄 I randomly colored in parts of the design before I stenciled over it. Interesting, yes?
Some of it turned out pretty neat and if you think I showed you too many arty papers, this wasn't all, but I thought I'd spare you.
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Now a quick detour. One of the artists on some of the videos I watched used this kind of bottle for some of her paints and glazes and glues. They are sold for condiments like catsup and mustard or the such, maybe BBQ sauce? I thought it was really neat. I had a large bottle of black paint that it was clunky when I tried to pour just a little, so I had ordered these bottles (monkey see, monkey do 🐒) and it was really, REALLY awesome and made it so much easier to use the black paint. I could squeeze a lot out or just a drip or two. I don't have giant jars of all my colors, but I can see using it for white and black and maybe for the liquid glue or sealer.
OK... back to my art.
Although when I was making the papers, I had not made a plan for what I would do after I finished them. Turns out I stared tearing them apart and gluing them all around on another practice board.
I kind of liked the hodge podge way it looked. Unfortunately, I feel like I am still doing lots of it... well, I would say wrong although there is supposed to be no such thing as wrong, but since this is the bottom layer, most of the interesting parts will be painted and papered over as the future layers go on. I've got to remember to save anything I really like for closer to last so it's goodness won't be wasted. So-so stuff on the bottom, better stuff nearer the surface.
Now some random paint.
As I was going along, I decided I wanted some little houses along the horizon of something, so I went through my stash of fun papers I previously made, some of these were in the first batch I ever created. I cut out some random house shapes, laid them across the paper, called them good and glued them on. Then I made sidewalks for each out of the same paper they had been cut from.
Somehow, after the houses were glued on, I realized they were not supposed to be people houses, but bird houses. They were much to large to be on a horizon on this piece. It simply wasn't big enough. Now the sidewalks became wonky birdhouse posts!
As funny as it sounds when artists say they let the art tell them what it wanted to be (a bunch of hokum I usually say! LOL).... but this time it really happent ! Go figure.
Once I post this, I am going to feed myself something for supper and go to my art table and clean up the mess I made yesterday. I already sorted a couple of things during break and got the painty water taken care of and the brushes cleaned. There's a lot of scraps though, some too small to keep and some that just need to be sorted.
