Stencils, plaster and a cork stamp
Apr 16th, 2008 by iHanna
I gave stencil cutting another go, this time cutting out numbers for a mixed media piece I’ve been thinking about. Very Lynne Perrella inspired (and Michelle Ward too I guess) who is my favorite mixed media inspiration. Only when I cut the last line of the last number (9!) I cut myself and there were a lot of blood on everything, especially on the knife I was holding. Though it turned out to be a happy accident, wait and see!
When I had my stencils I wanted to really play with them and my other art supplies so I set up a mini studio for once. I noticed how much I have missed this when I sat there painting, stamping, stenciling and playing. I miss having a desk of my own, a place of my own. I’ve been making a lot of collages in bed, but painting and messing things up is not fun in bed. I need a table and a room of my own to do it.
Insence candles, acrylic paint, glue stick, pen, cutting board and knife for stencil making and dirty paint water. What else could a girl ask for?
A cork turned into a round stamp - I loooove this stamp. I want to use it all over everything. So easy and so much fun.
And then, when the blood stoped dripping I took the plaster of and just noticed it had some small holes on each side. I had to try;
Ha! What about this stencil?
I preped my art journal with acrylic paint, some stencils and stamping:
Love how these two pages turned out. Yummy!
This is how my painting/mixed media collage turned out:
Scanned image.
I hope you’re having a creative & happy day!
I love all the textures you’ve used on the pages. It’s so fun how you’re willing to try pretty much anything when it comes to your art and crafts. I always get inspired when I visit your blog or your Flickr.
*hugs*
Sophie
This is amazing with layers! The colors are beautiful, too!
I’m going to get out my bandaids tonight…
Yummy indeed! And the bandaid as mark-making implement? Inspired!
o my goodness! i love the pattern the band-aid made. what a happy accident!! :-)
Hanna - great post! Love your process photos and the finished piece. The cork is a great stamp (you know you can carve a little something out from one side of it?) But the band-aid? Very clever. We should add that to the list of our Cheap Trick crusade from last year. Thanks for sharing your work, especially with the street team.
oooh I love your collage - love the colours im inspired to go paint….
Too funny ! Your plaster as a stencil ! The GPP street team crusade has made us stencil crazy ! The strangest part is that it looked really good ! I love the colors in your mixed media piece. Very Perella-esque. Keep on having fun, but stay safe ! Those fingers are valuable !!!!!
Kim
Isn’t fun to just use whatever is at arm’s (or bloody finger’s) reach?! Yesterday I painted with a baby spoon.
Hanna - great journal pages and collage! The colors are lovely! And your bandage makes a nice little dot stencil! :)
What an awesome collage!!! I love it!
I love how this turned out, very cool.
Talk about art being in your blood! Scary, creative, innovative and great pages — it’s all here. How excellent!
I like your stencils… I love letters, numbers and text in art! I just stumbled on to your site and I am sure to stumble back by.
Thanks
Robin
i feel like i went on a journey with you, a good one. :) hope your hand is ok. i’m going to grab my corks and some band aids and add them to my creative kit! thanks for the great ideas :) i just wont cut myself though.
Love it…the bandaid thing? Genius.
I absolutely love what you have done. Did you use a model to copy from when making your stencils? I fancy making some too - you’ve inspired me. Pippa x
Skulle jag bara ha tid skulle jag gärna göra dagliga konstkort som du gör, men kanske när barnen blir lite större…
Härlig bild med siffror! Jag gillar siffror…
Jag är bara lite nyfiken…bor du i Sverige eller utomlands?
wow ~ thats so cool…all the textures and found objects as tools, very exciting to see so thanks for sharing! :)
Just looked at your previous posts and I now know how you made your stencils. I’m going to have a go too! Always love your work. Pippa x
I’m rather jealous of all the wonderful things you produce in your work book!
I landed here through stumbleupon. I’m also on etsy and make switch plates. I use a pencil eraser the same way you use the cork. I love the primitive look you get with it. Great blog, I’ll visit often!
Gina
My goodness!! Your work is killer. Love it.
I love the peek at your working environment….and the band aid stencil :)
I came here by way of Leah @ Create Everyday. This is so cool! Love the colores esp the one dark design that looks like a piece of fabric or perhaps wrapping paper - it’s rather feminine looking. The band aid is like a blessing in desguise. Love it when that happens.
Wow, this is brilliant. You’re so creative! Love love love how it turned out.
It sounds like you have had soooo much fun! Your number stencils are great and your pages look Fab! I love the colours. How funny, and fantastic, is it that we look at every day items and find ways to use them in our art….love the plaster stencilling!
[…] * THE CRUSADES: I’ve been doing quite a few of Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team Crusades where she once a month posts an Art Journal Exercise that usually is both fun, challenging and learning something new! I adore her heavy posts about Art Journaling with plenty of examples from her own books. For example I participated in March (number 18) making stamps by carving and in April (number 19) cutting out a stencil, also something I did this year for the first time! I even made art on canvas using number stencils I cut out. Oh what fun! […]
[…] * THE CRUSADES: I’ve been doing quite a few of Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team Crusades where she once a month posts an Art Journal Exercise that usually is both fun, challenging and learning something new! I adore her heavy posts about Art Journaling with plenty of examples from her own books. For example I participated in March (number 18) making stamps by carving and in April (number 19) cutting out a stencil, also something I did this year for the first time! I even made art on canvas using number stencils I cut out. Oh what fun! […]