Thrift Store HAUL + Weird Junk & Fabric Journals FLIP THROUGH

    

A Thrift Store Haul and a Weird Journals Flip Through

DIY: Reviving an Old Nightie By Painting & Stenciling on its Fabric, Ins...

   

Come and dream with me,

This opens an ocean of possibilities...

Tutorial: STAMPING w/ Stencils & Paper Towels, Hit & Miss, Experimentation

   

Hands in the paint, really!

How not to be fascinated by paint marks on paper or even on fabric. Experimenting is something that I do daily in my Art as in my Craft. There is nothing more enjoyable than playing, the hands in the paint. But it is not very obvious to have the hands in the paints and on the camera in the same time! :-)

In this video, I am trying to convey this excitement we feel when we are trying something new, unknown, and about to succeed. Making mistakes is the best way to learn. Even as an ex-arts and crafts teacher and author of an arts & crafts book, I make mistakes every day, and it's good, because I am learning from them every day.

Conclusion: be happy to start and make mistakes, because this is will be the great beginning of your creative journey.

How To Improvise Abstract PAGES on a Handmade Journal: Stencils, Ink Sta...

   

Creating, coloring, improvising, not always easy, but so much fun!!!

Colors and more Supplies used in this video:
- Daler Rowney Watercolors
- Impellist Watercolors (pearl gold)
- Color & Co Lefranc & Bourgeois Gouaches Temperas (fluo pink & more... They are made for children at school)
- Glitter Poster Paints for children (in small jars)
- Fine Acrylic Lefranc & Bourgeois (primary yellow)
- Basics Acrylic Liquitex (deep violet)
- Golden Acrylics (interference blue)
- Neo Art Watersoluble wax pastels
- Oil Pastel Sennelier (pale gold #112 & pale pink Madder Lake #77)
- Omnya Color Fine Marker (yellow)
- TDK CD-R Pen (black)
- Japanese fluo Wax Pastels (name unknown, it's written in Japanese!)
- Markal Oil Paintstik (light green)
- Gelatos Faber-Castell (passion fruit, tangerine, pistachio)
- I used some Scented Kids Paints Craft Dab on the paper towel, they act like an ink and take some time to dry which allows to transfer the colors on several layers in the same time
- Fixatif for Pastel & Charcoal Gallery, to seal the watercolors here
- Glue used: Elmer's School Glue available at Target's but any PVA glue will be fine
- The circles stencil is a Traci Bautista's creation: "Circles Circles" and the little flowers stencil is named "Gigi Stencil". You can both find them at http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/
- The Journal was handmade with some raw handmade watercolor paper for the cover and some drawing/painting slightly thick paper for the pages. Any paper which can support some waterbased paint will be fine
- My brushes are very old and some of them have no name anymore, but any brush working for stenciling will be fine, and find a simple thin brush which would work with watercolors and any watersoluble color. The hands are great too sometimes...

TUTORIAL, How To Decorate A NOTEBOOK, Part 2: Decoupaging, Enhancing

  



This is the Part 2 and end result of my previous video.

Envelope Junk Journal: NEW PAGE on An Existing Background, Part1

   

A little exercise

How To STENCIL with Markal Oil Sticks & Acrylic Paints, The Basics

   

Connecting again with my old stencils and technique...

JOURNAL, Easy Collages, Tea Bags, Stencils, Recycled Box & Flowers

      

A new free Arts & Crafts lesson

Mark Hollis Tomorrow Started Painting STRETCHING The Canvas, Talk Talk

I can't wait to start this new painting! If I was not so buried under my work, it would be already done and I would already be on the next one.

But I am going to enjoy every second of it. 

It will be about this amazing song named "Tomorrow Started" by Talk Talk (Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollis), that you will originally find on the It's My Life Album.

This song conveys so many images in my mind, that beside its beauty, I had to put these images on a canvas especially when you think that most of these images have been in my mind since more than 30 years! It is more than time to express myself with this.

As weird as it may sound, I don't approach all of this as any fan would do. Even though I have the highest respect for fans of all sorts, as long as they remain polite, decent and nice.  I have rather the feeling that I am in a kind of artistic research after having discovered an infinitely huge treasure that was waiting there just in front of me during all these years, and that I could only really see just now, maybe because I am older?

And my mission is to show this treasure to the World. 

It is there: beautiful, fantastic, smart, so, so clever, so delicate and deep, so sensitive and full of Love. How could I miss it before? How can some people still not see it?

I recommend that you go by all means listen to this song, Tomorrow Started, listen to the sound of the lyrics too, appreciate the beauty of the voice, don't go too deep down in the meaning of the song, otherwise you are going to be depressed, just enjoy the moment of this marvel.