New Year Challenge

Hello Soul Sisters

 

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2018, a year of creativity.

 

We are starting the year off with a new design team click here to read the post if you missed it and a new Soulful Project mood board.

 

 

Be inspired by the images, the colours and the quote, we would love to see what you create and how you were inspired.

 

To enter you will need to be a part of our facebook group Soul Sister. Once you are a member of the group then you will need to find the album and add your photo to it.

 

If you are the lucky winner, which is voted on by the design team you will received a $50 voucher for the Shop and be invited to share what you create with your goodies as a guest designer on our blog.

 

Please note that the voucher can only be won by residents of Australia but if are from overseas and win the challenge you will be offered a guest design team spot.

December SOULFUL PROJECT - Leanne

Hello again.. Yep I am back so soon... 

BUT it is a new month so that means a brand spanking new SOULFUL PROJECT.. 

and here is the prompt.. WOW hey.

so what do I do.. well recently I stumbled across an artist by the name of Deb Weiers... 

(if you want to check her out have a look HERE)

WOW

 so I thought I would channel her.... so started off with the colours. 

so vibrant and bright.....

then added a little blue, a swipe or two of modelling paste and pressed in a Carbelle studio embossing folder for texture... and free handed a face...

THINGS were not as they seemed.. EEK .. YUK.. ok if I colour in with white..

yep that would work... NOPE.. but Don't give up yet... re-draw the face... change it.. add a circle feature or two... and stick on some stamped peoples....

NO no NO>..... Black.. add black.. that always helps..

yep... still not convinced... THEN DISASTER........ WTF...... NO... this is not working..
see..................

RIGHT....get into YOUR head.. and stop trying to be someone you arent.. flip this sucker the other way.. it feels better.. add some texture paste through some stencils, some gold punchinella, staples, carabelle stamps... feeling better.. swipe some Liquitex ink mixed with transparent gesso through a carabelle stencil..

YES>..

YEP .. now we are talking... TEXTURE >.. glorious TEXTURE..

keep on keeping on ...

stick on this super cool stamped head.. add a body.. colour the glasses.. 

IT  IS SAVED..................

 Now go to sleep..

MORNING.. and YES>. I am loving it.. THRILLED... add some finishing touches...

Through in some words that speak from the SOULFUL quote....

AND>.... yeah baby... Have a look at some of this texture.. subtle details.. MAGIC.

and that my friends is how you create.. 

live your own creations.. Inspiration is fantastic but unless you feel the work you are creating it just doesn't happen..

I could have thrown it in the bin and started again. I could have just shared with you the end result.. but I thought that would be a disservice to everyone. We all have some creations that just don't work. so instead of giving up.. let the piece take you to where it needs to be....

Product list:
Dina Wakley heavy body acrylic - tangarine, ruby and lemon..
Liquitex ink, flexible modelling paste, light modelling paste.
Matisse black gesso, transparent gesso.
Atelier gesso primer white (i use it as a white paint)
Stabilo Marks All Pencil (YEP again. the edging of the figure and helps to give some colour to the figure)
Carabelle Studio "with folly" stamp (the face), "background- impression aux pochoirs" stamp, Embossing folder "texte grunge, "1/58" stencil.  *** YEP I am a little obsessed by Carabelle Studio awesomeness..***
Dylusions stencil (letters)
Kaisercraft Brick stencil.
Stazon Jet black ink pad. 
Punchinella, staples, Dymo labeller

So there you go.. I hope you got something out of this...

and PLEASE play along with the SOULFUL challenge..
there is a HUGE $75.00 Voucher to spend at the shop!!!! (instore or online)

Live with Respect..

oh oh ..
don't forget the new design team search.. why not throw YOUR hat in the ring....

My first Technique Post.

Hello Soul Sisters....

It's Leanne Jago here with my first blog post for Art and Soul Studio.

I'm a little nervous but a bit excited. I have created a process video with one of my favourite techniques to add some subtle texture to any piece using Stencils. But first a sneek peak...

 I'll also add some picks of other projects where this technique has also been used...

Now to watch how this was created....

 

Products used from Art and Soul studio...

Liquitex Gesso White, Flexible Modelling Paste.

Matisse Black Gesso, Transparent Gesso.

DecoArt Media Matte Medium.

Dylusions Paint - Cut Grass, London Blue. 

Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint - Blushing, Ocean. Heavy body Acrylic paint Lapis.

Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks.

Dyan Reaveley's for Dylusions Old School Stencil,

Scrap FX Puddles stencil.

Stabilo marks All pencil - Black, Graphite. 

As promised some picks of other projects where this stencil technique has been used.

 Again removing black paint....

 YEP.. addicted to adding and removing black paint....

this one is part of the original art journal page created for the November Soulful challenge.... 

Just a reminder of the November Soulful challenge...

Thank you all for visiting and please leave a message on any techniques you would like to see... 

Live with Respect... 

Leanne xo

Looking on the bright side

Good Morning Soul Sisters

 

Today I am sharing with you are art journal page that I created as inspiration for the Soulful Project in our facebook group.

 

Here is the quote that we had to use

And here is my art journal page.

 

products used from the shop

dina wakley media acrylic paint - night

marabu art spray - flamingo, sky blue and lemon

kaisercraft stamp - texture script

 

Happy Creating



'The Blue divide' Art Journal Page by Elisa Ablett

Hi Soul Sisters, 

Elisa here from the design team with my latest project which I based around this month's soulful project quote.

 the link to the facebook album is here for your entries - July Soulfull

there is a $75 voucher to the store up for grabs so get your entries in.

Here is my project, a very personal mixed media art journal page inspired by the quote and featuring products from Art and Soul Studio Store.

To me it symbolises the swirls of thoughts through our brains, the struggle between anxiety and panic and happy cheerful thoughts. How something so beautiful as your brain can be a little dented and scratched, so to speak .... 

Here is a close up of the thoughts, words cut from an old book.

I wanted to show you how I achieved my page using some of the materials from the store.

Step 1 - Using a new Mixed Media Journal from X-press It, it has beautiful 300gsm aqua paper! draw a face silhouette with a waterproof black marker, add a circle and line down your page where you want to showcase the line drawn between your thoughts in your head... (more symbolism)

https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&path=226&product_id=18645

Step 2 - Grab your desired colours of acrylic paint - I used Vicki Boutin Mixed Media Acrylic Paint available from the store on the link below. The colours are glorious! and it spreads like margarine.

Using a palette knife or silicone spatula spread the three colours inside the circle on your page and let dry.

http://artandsoulstudio.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&path=649&product_id=19229

Step 3 - Using an old sheet of music paper and a sheet of patterned paper (Abstract Art by Kaisercraft - Basecoast 4 collection) tear small strips of the papers and use to build the silhoutte's clothing on the lower half of the page plus also part of the background on the right.

I also used the patterned paper and using a new bohemian flower die from the store, I diecut my flowers and put them aside for later.

Cherry Lynn Designs - Mehndi Botanicals 4

http://artandsoulstudio.com.au/index.php?route=product/product&path=631_713&product_id=20611

Step 4 - Using a paint brush add a small wash of gesso over the top of your patterned and glued paper to dull the colours a little. Then grab your favourite watercolour inks and spray bottle and a paintbrush add colour to your silhoutte page on the right side. I used the FABULOUS ecoline inks available in store individually or in packs of 6 or 10 colours. - 

Ecoline Watercolour Inks - Pack 10

Step 5 - Use a large paintbrush and water as well to add a wash affect over the top of your inks.

Last steps - Once your page has dried and you have added all the colour inks you want, using a versafine inkpad which is archival, stamp around your circle and line to create depth on your page. 

Also add your title, either handwrite or use stamps as I have using the same black versafine inkpad.

To finish - add your die cut flowers, eyes that i ripped from a magazine and some important words from an old book to represent the war our brain sometimes has when we are anxious, sad and confused and stressed.

Add some finishing touches like colour to the lips or outline your flowers to give them more depth.

And you are finished!!

Hope you have enjoyed my project and the tutorial, the quote immediately 'spoke' to me and I wanted to create a page that symbolised the real struggle that a lot of people go through with the warring thoughts in their minds. Art is Therapy.....

Make sure you leave me some love and head on over to the store to check out the amazing products the store is stocking to help you on your artistic journey...

Elisa xx