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1. Introduction: We're on an epic
journey of discovery, and in this class, we're going beyond reality crafting real and
imagined worlds. Welcome to the studio.
It's Frole here. I'm a mixed media artist, and I've been painting and exhibiting for over
three decades. I've journeyed through
most stils of art, and I found that
mixed media collage is my absolute most
favorite medium. What do I love about
mixed media collage? Well, there's absolute
freedom of expression. You can't get it wrong. You can create
with what you have and from the depth
of your imagination. You can express
yourself so easily, and with just a few art supplies and a little bit of courage, you can create anything. In this class, we're
going out of this world. My intention is to
encourage you to create past your own
preconceived boundaries, to expand your creativity and
stretch your imagination. This is class five celebrate
your creative self, and it's the most comprehensive
mixed media art class that I've ever created. We'll be heading
into unknown lands exploring a steam pump fantasy. We'll challenge our
own beliefs about ourselves with a
surreal self portrait, step into a parallel universe and explore nature's fantasy. Up up and away for a space odyssey
adventure and we'll step back in time
for a timeless tale. Then we'll put it all
together in mystical realms. It's going to be so much fun. There's so much adventure, and there's so many
ways to expand your creativity using
your own imagination, a few techniques,
some art supplies, and permission to play. You'll be inspired by new
techniques and encouraged to create art that you may
have not ever tried before. Every project you
undertake will reflect your own individual style
and interpretation. This art class is about how you personally respond
to the prompts. You can't get it wrong. And you can be as inventive and as creative as you
allow yourself to be. This class is for
anyone wanting to develop their creativity
through mixed media collage. Perfect for beginners
because I will lead you step by step
through every lesson, showing you the
exact materials I use and how you can
create similar results. Or if you're a more
advanced art maker, you're going to thrive
with the incentive to create artworks that you may not have ever
thought of before. The prompts are there to
challenge you, inspire you, and push you on
to really develop your own personal expression
and your creativity. It's going to be so much fun, so get strapped in
because I can't wait to take you on this ride
to Infinity and beyond.
2. Material List: Oh. I'm so excited
for this class. Class Number five. Beyond reality crafting real and imagined world, how
incredibly exciting. Now, this class is going to be completely different
to the last class, which is what's
so fabulous about the compounding ongoing workshop
of 100 days of college, because we're going to learn
and grow and develop with each class and learn new
skills and techniques, and it's just so much fun. Now, I hope that
you're traveling with me along the journey, because we're going
to be using prints, papers, Mmm, some trinkets, some bits and pieces found objects from the
previous classes. We'll be putting them into this class and using
them along the way. So I hope you've
stored them in a box. Pretty sure I've mentioned
that quite a few times. Now with this class,
the material list, we're going to be
using acrylic paints, all of the other
art supplies that we've used in the
previous classes, water based materials,
Different paint pens, different pieces, found objects, and the glorious textures
from the last class. So we'll be using some
acrylic skins and definitely a heap of the jelly prints that we
now have accumulating. This class is going to
be about putting it all together and creating
real and imagined worlds. We're going to be stretching
our composition ideas, and we're going to be creating narratives
in our collages, thinking about stories, really
expanding our imagination, and it's going to be
a whole lot of fun. In this class, I'm
also going to be using some additional craft papers to help with those
imagined worlds. So that's going to be
a whole lot of fun. Remember, you don't have
to use what I'm using. You can use whatever you have in your crafter room or
art room or studio. Make sure you gather all
of the art supplies you already have first before
rushing out to buy some. But really, we have so many
textures from the last class. We've got a lot to use. It's really a lot of fun. Of course, I've put together a full supply list
of what I'm using. If you want to find
something specific, especially the cool
little trinkets. Have a look at the
material list. There's links there
if you want to find out exactly what
the materials are. Let's gather our material. Let's make hard and let's
step into unknown words.
3. Steampunk Fantasy: A. Day 29 steam punk
fantasy, how very exciting. So what does it mean to create
with a steam punk theme. Well, here's a few examples
to get you excited. Steam punk can be
defined as where history and fantasy
collide with technology. How exciting is that? More specifically, steam punk is a genre of science fiction that typically features
steam powered machinery rather than advanced technology. Most steam punk
culture bases its aesthetic and narrative on machinery from the 19th century. So it's going to be
a whole lot of fun. It's going to be very whimsical, and I can't wait to
get it started using all the trinkets and bits and
pieces that I've collected. So we're going to craft
a collage that combines Victorian era elements with
futuristic technology, incorporating gears, cogs and metallic textures for
a steam punk vibe. Doesn't that sound exotic. I think this class is
going to really stretch our imagination and
our narrative skills for creating stories
within our collages. I'm really excited for it
because it's so different from all the other classes that we've been doing in this series. I'm going to put out some
steam punk craft paper pieces, definitely some cogs
and some trinkets, and let's see what
we can create with this absolutely
fascinating theme. Right. So I've got these prints and these
fabulous jelly prints. I created with this pig basket. Now, I found this fabulous cheap dollar store
peg basket for the last class of making textures and look how
fabulous they print. It was a whole lot of fun. I'm thinking that cog like shape really works well
for my steam punk theme. I'm going to use some
of these prints. I also have this fantastic
Spira scrapbooking pad, which has got some really
great steam punk images in it, and I'm going to definitely
choose something from here. To put on these pages. I also have some of
my acrylic skins, some trinkets with some cogs
and possibly a stencil. All of that's going to fit on my fabulously way too
small little art journal. I think I'll start with this. I'm going to put
it on this side. I haven't decided exactly
what else I might want. But I think that's a
good place to start. This side, I'm definitely going to choose one of these pages, possibly This one. I like this. I like this image here. That looks like fun, and I think it's such
a good representation of the steam punk seam. I'm going to use this one here. Now, I will put this particular stamperia
scrapbooking pad in your notes with a
link if you want to find it and if you want to
use some of these images, they really are a lot of fun. The backgrounds are
all down, beautiful. I love this is so much fun. The print looks so good. Now, I think what
I'm going to do next is embellish these pages, and I'm going to
add some of these onto that side because
I'm just loving them. Then over here, I think I'll add some of the other bits and
pieces that are found, and definitely I
definitely have to use some of the glorious
prints and coal Okay. I know. I did get a little
crazy buying them from Amazon. I was so excited for this class. So I'm going to put some on here and also some
of my glass beads. I want to put those on as well. And how much can I get on
the page? Is the question? If I put that whole piece on, it's going to cover my glorious print which
I really like. Oh, man, I'm going to have
to cut it down some more so I can see all
of the things on my page that I really
liked the most. Which one? I've got so many beautiful
papers to work with. It's always a tough decision. That's going to go
there and then that leaves more of my print exposed, and I'm definitely going to find the next piece
to put on there. Right. So my glass
bead skins are down. We created those
in the last class, and I absolutely love them. They will dry perfectly clear, and I'll see that glorious
print pattern underneath. Now, I'm thinking
I'd really like to add one of these to them. But I just have to
decide do I want silver? That looks good, or do
I want the gold color? I'm that too. What do I want the brass. The brass does match this page. Here do I want to be matching? Well, you know, I always
do love matching. That's a pretty good
one. I like that one. Yes, my art journal is never going to close, but that's okay. I already accepted
that a long time ago. I could put that one there. That matches nice too. I do like the gold.
That's pretty fun. That one? That one? No, I think I like
that one better. So far and do we want silver or do we want the bronze color. That does match this
page just saying, well, I'll give it some thought. I'll have to decide, I might even put a few
extra ones on like this because that looks
pretty cute too, like that. Then we'll move on to this page. I'm going to put these
little cold trinkets on with PVA because they would
just glue a bit better. You definitely want to use
something that's going to dry clear because If you like me, you just might get
glue everywhere. That's looking pretty nice. It's matching nice. I'm liking the composition in
that. All right. I'll glue those down and then decide what we're
doing on this page. The cogs and gears
are all glued down. They'll take a fair amount
of time to dry, I'd say. Now I just have to decide
what am I going to put on this side of the page to add
to this glorious background. I don't want to add too much because I really
like the pattern, It's such a great picture. And it's just so
representational of the steam punk thing.
I'm loving it. Now, I could add a few
of these if I wanted to, or I could add some more of these ones from that
side as well, see? That would work. For sure. For sure. I actually
really like that. Because it's mirroring
this side of the page, so it creates more of a unity. The colors work really well. That is a strong idea
to put on this side, but what else will I add? It needs a little bling, but not the same ones. I've got some of these shapes that might work in this
beautiful gold color. A year baby. Look
how that shines. We could add some of this
on here perhaps maybe baby. Okay. Do we want to
add that on there? Well, we're just
going to have to decide or I might have
another look through the paper pad and see what other images I
really like better. I had a little rummage and I
decided I want to bring in another color to add a little bit of life and
excitement to the page. I'm going to put some
of this is Coso paper, the beautiful mulberry paper. I'm going to tear a
piece of this some size, haven't quite
decided on the size, but it's going to go here. Then I'm going to stencil one of these
beautiful keys on it because keys and
locks are all part of the steam pump theme, and I think a beautiful
key on there probably in the champagne gold densel
butter and put it there. That's pretty much
all I want to do to the page because I really
like the rest of it. I like the feel of it. I love the imagery. Unless I put one
of these on here, which could be possible, but at the moment, I'm just thinking, I want to
leave the rest of it alone. You never quite.
Nothing's a guarantee until you see it at
the end. I'll do that. I'll put those little bits on and then we'll
see where we're at. The beautiful Mulberry paper looks fabulous,
already glued down, and I'm tossing up between the champagne gold
or the copper penny. Both would look beautiful. That's going to be
richer and warmer. That's going to be obviously
more blingy and gold. It is rather a hard decision, but I think I'll go
with the copper. Now I've just got to
hold the stencil on steady while I put the
beautiful key in place. I think I'll go with this shape because it just looks
like a lot of fun. Right. How does it look? It looks beautiful. Now, I think I'm
going to have to change this piece here because it's too fat and I don't think it's going
to stick down well. But other than that, I'm
happy with my pages. They look fabulous. I love the steam punk vibe, I now just have to wait for
all of these elements to dry.
4. Surreal Self Portrait: A Day 30 surreal self portrait. Create a portrait
collage that reflects your real world identity and your inner world of
dreams and aspirations. I know it's going
to be a challenge. Use photographs of yourself as the foundation and incorporate surreal and imaginative
elements to depict the layers of your
personality and aspirations. Really stretching ourselves now, it's going to be a
challenge number one to use a portrait
of yourself. I find it really
challenging to find photos that I
actually like myself. Okay. And then we want
to create something with that photograph that's really expressive
and imaginative. And I want to really
encourage you to pour it all out
there on the collage, really open the door
to your heart and your imagination and allow yourself to really
express who you are, because nobody's
going to see it. It's in your art journal. It's private just for you. Unless you want
to show somebody. It's a really safe place
to have a go at creating something you've
always wanted to or showing a different
angle of who you are. Ooh. I know. It's a lot of fun. You might feel a little vulnerable in using
a photo of yourself, but I want to encourage
you to push past that because it's so good for
yourself, your self esteem, your inner core to
really allow yourself to express exactly how you
want the world to see you. I know it will be a challenge, but I really look
forward to maybe seeing what you create if you give me that
privilege and honor, I would love to see it. Otherwise, you're very welcome
to keep it to yourself, but have a good time
and really allow yourself to let go and be as
expressive as you can be. Okay, well, you get to
see my inner workings. Which which could
be a little ravine. But I'm sure I'm going
to have lots of color. Although I might use
some of those cogs from the previous lesson because
I really enjoyed using them. Right. So first of all, you need to choose a photo and you have to choose a
photo that you like. Don't pull out anything that
you're looking at going, I don't like that because
that's not going to help you. Now, this photo that I chose, I absolutely love it. It's nothing special. It's not touched up or
making me look glamorous. It's just a simple click
Selfie down at the beach. But what's so special
about it is that we had just moved here
to where we live now. It was a huge
upheaval to get here. I was so relieved
I was so happy. The day was beautiful, and I was down at the beach at the pier where I
absolutely love to go. It's one of my favorite
places in Napier. I was just feeling
so good and so relieved really to have
all that stress finished. Simple selfie, but
I look at it and I remember how beautiful the day was and how good I was feeling. I'm going to use this
photo and then I'm going to put it into canva.com. Now, this is a really
simple program. I use it all the time to
create my thumbnails or to fix my digital images for
anything that I'm working on. And you can get a free account. So I put the photo
into a new document, and then I decided
I wanted to add a film strip behind
it because there's been such an impact
in my life in the last three years since I've been doing
my online videos. When I first started on YouTube, I was absolutely terrified. I didn't like the way I looked. I didn't like the way I sounded. I'm so boomy, and I laugh
a lot and I'm very me. And looking at yourself
can be really difficult. I found that my
insecurities were staring me in the face and it was a
really difficult process. But to create the videos
that I wanted to create, I had to push past
all of my fears and phobias and I literally
had to look at myself. In the face each week as
I was editing the videos, and I had to confront what it is I really felt about
what I would see. And I'm hoping that
this lesson and this activity is really
going to encourage you. Because after a
while of creating the videos and
looking at myself, I had to really get to a
place of self acceptance, and self acceptance is the greatest gift you
can give yourself. In fact, you're the only
one who can give it to you. If you can choose a photo, look at the photo and go, Okay, well, I don't really like
this and this and this. Maybe I've got too
many wrinkles or maybe my double chin's
not looking good. But if you can look at that photo and accept
that this is who you are and give yourself
that gift of self acceptance, it really is incredibly empowering for your identity and your sense of self worth. So I've put a film strip behind my favorite little
snapshot selfie of me because I've found that doing the videos has really
empowered me to accept myself, What's in all to push past the insecurities to
overcome those fears and to accept that
this is who I am and everybody else can either
accept that or not. I think doing the
videos has really empowered me even
more as a person. I've got my image, I've got my selfie
and my film strip. I'm going to print that out now and use it for my collage today. What am I going to put with it? Well, definitely
my favorite color. Right. I've got my fabulous self portrait
all printed out. I'm going to put it on here. Now, I have to, of course, add some of my favorite
color, which is red. And this particular
pattern on this paper is a jelly print using my fabulous script palm
Sentil slash mask. I love this stencil. The poem means so much to me. I wrote it at a time that I just needed some
encouragement. I needed to be my own
cheerleader and I wrote this poem and put it into the collage that
I was working on. Now I have it as a stencil, in case you haven't heard it, let me share it with you. Dream Big. There's
nobody like you. You are unique, one of
a kind, irreplaceable. Beautiful. Cherish who you are. Love out loud and allow
yourself to shine. Be kind, generous, and
know that you are loved. Darling, you are a work of art. I absolutely love it.
It means so much. It's the very core of
who I am as a person, why I create and what
I'm passionate about. I'm really passionate about
encouraging others to believe in themselves through the
expression of their artwork. That's what really drives me. That's why I create these particular workshops
and classes that I create. Now, this piece is the stencil or mask
actually is what it is. On the gel plate, we're
pulling the print with the paint around the shapes of the letters and
the scripting. Then this piece is the
beautiful ghost print. Both of them look really good and I might even
use both of them. I also have the palm script in a smaller stencil and sometimes that seems to find
its way into my collages. I might be doing that as well. I'm also wanting to use some of my steam punk lift over images. I'm really enjoying
them and I think they'll really
contribute to my story. I think I might use one of
these ones because it's been such a metamorphose for
me in the past few years, quite significant in the
unfolding of my wings as to say. I'm liking one of those perhaps some of
these cogs because I find that my brain is always
going. It's always on. I really have a
hard time sleeping and I'm thinking that this
could work really well. I also really like this one
because I like the compass. I'd really like to travel some more next year doing some different
artworks and things. Perhaps I might even put
compass on the page. I don't know, man, all of
this is not going to fit obviously and I will have to think about
what I really want. But I've got myself portrait. I'm pretty happy with
the printout of that, and I'm definitely using some of my favorite stencils
with my favorite colors. That's a great place to start. So all these pieces are
down, they look great. And I think I might use
this whole piece for this side and then decide
what I want to add on it. Background on first,
loving the color of the bronze and the
black, and the red one. They really are my
favorite colors with my favorite texture. That's what you've got to do. Just create your page exactly how you want to
express who you are, what you love, what
you're all about, where you want to head. This is definitely
my brain inside. I 3:00 this morning when I remembered
something I hadn't done. Okay. Oh, man, I'm telling you. Those cobs are always turning. I think I might put one
of those little ones, all those little
metal ones in there. I'll have to go and
find one of those from yesterday's collage
because I think that would really be fun
sitting one in there. Maybe two. All right. I'll have a look at
that. Backgrounds down. I'll just cut around
these shapes. Put them on and then see if
I want to add anything else. Might need a little pop
of color in this side, perhaps something bright.
I'll go and have a look. I ended up putting one of my favorite colored
tissue pieces on that side just to bring in some warmth and
color because I didn't want the background
to be all too somber. Now I've got this beautiful
piece going on in the middle. That's going to be
fabulous focal point and I've cut out my compass. I'm going to put it
underneath it right. There. Right. Those pieces
are on and I'm just going to have a little think
about whether or not I want to add any more. Definitely going to find a little cog for
over on that side. I'll let these pages dry. I'm pretty happy
with how they look. I've decided to add a
little of my small tiny, we stencil mask onto here
to add that extra texture. I love it. It looks fabulous it's so textual and it's beautiful
because of course, it's covered in the
golden bronze fin from being used for painting. I know it is so exciting
because it looks so beautiful. That's going on there. The
cogs are going on here, and I'll give you a once
it's all nice and dry.
5. Parallel Universe: Day 31 parallel universe. Create a collage that
explores the juxtaposition of real world elements
and imaginative realms. I know it's so exciting blurring the boundaries
between the two. Combine photographs or cut out of everyday scenes
with dream like surreal elements to create a composition that transports viewers to a parallel universe. I'll tell you a little secret. I'm totally a sci fi nerd. Absolutely. Love
sip I find it so exciting and exhilarating to think of other
parallel universes. What would I be like in a parallel universe?
I don't know, man. But I love thinking of
different things like that. Love science fiction. So I'm pretty excited for
these kinds of prompts and themes because it
stretches our imagination. It makes us think
beyond creating what we think is expected or
what we normally do, and that's really stretching
for your creativity. To push past the boundaries
of what you already know. So I want to encourage you. Maybe you could have a look at some of the surreal artists and see how weird and wacky
those paintings are. Some of the artworks
you just go. Were you on drugs?
And maybe they were. But I think it's a
great way to really stretch your creativity and
build some artistic muscle. So parallel universe,
what does it look like? What elements are
you going to do and our inspiration is going to come from the
surreal artists. It's going to be a
whole lot of fun. Right. So for my
parallel universe, I've pulled out some of my digital collage papers
that are printed. These are actually laser print. They're not going
to bleed when I put copious amounts of
mat medium on them. But if you're using
prints from your inkjet, you might want to give them
a little bit of a spray with the mat varnish because
it just helps to seal the papers so that
when you're putting your other collage elements or your glue or any kind
of fluid medium on top, they don't smear
and go everywhere. Now, these ones are
copies of my original national geographic dissolved beautiful
fantastic collage papers, and I really like using the digital versions
even more than the originals because they don't smell and they don't
bleed everywhere. I love using the copied versions because the original ones
just tend to make a mess. I've got some of those, some of my other digital collage paper, some fabulous
interesting jelly prints that I pulled out
of the drawer and some no magazines
that haven't yet been destroyed by dissolving
them with crasol. Yes. I do still have a few I'm just going
to look at that, have a flick through the
magazines and pull out some images that's going to work for my parallel universe. Love that bird. That's a good place to start. Let's snip him out, and I'm thinking, I'm going to put him
onto something else. Let's put the bird head on
something because we're being inspired by the surrealist
artists and really, you can't get any more weird
than those surreal artists. I showed you some of them. I'm telling you they are weird. I'm going to have
a flip through. These look at that. I love National
Geographic magazines. The burn photographs are
absolutely beautiful. Look at the colors. They're just glorious. I might just keep
that picture aside. Well, that's fun, too. A man, now I got to decide. Right, I'll just have a quick flick through these
magazines and pull out some bits that I think might work well for my
parallel universe. Yeah. I also created this fabulous image
transfer on the gel plate. I've used T bag paper to pull the print and that's the
first time I've ever used it. But it feels really nice, I'm definitely going to have
to explore it some more. What I'm thinking
is I want something real to put in my
parallel universe. But I put her on this very
transparent paper because I'm thinking about adding one of these textures under her so
she doesn't look so normal. If I put her on top of that, the paper should go quite transparent and then she'll
probably look like a lizard. Because it's got these
fabulous colors and textures. Then we can't have
her looking normal. It's a surreal piece of art. I'm going to try that idea, and then I might add
some more elements around the side of her as well. So you just have to
get an idea head in a direction and then
develop that idea as you go. You can always add
more images to it, you can paint over it,
you can change it. So don't be stressed out
about starting or trying because you just have to get off the starting box and get moving. And then once you're moving, you can chop and
change your mind, come up with some more ideas
and see where you're at. So image, transfer,
a few jelly prints, some digital collage papers
and some GO magazines, and I'm pretty happy. I think I'll start by putting
down my background of my digital print onto there and then putting
her face on there. Then once that's glued down, I'll think about what I'm
going to add around the side. Hopefully you should see some of that image
coming through. On this side, look, I
found another astronaut. I'm pretty excited about that. I'm going to glue that on
there and then I'm going to put the head of the bird on. I'm pretty excited about this. I don't think I've ever actually created a
surrealist piece, so it's all very exciting. I might put some of this background around the
side there perhaps underneath. I think that would work. I'm liking some of this
on the side as well. Just a few of those
numbers and things, or I might use some of my
beautiful dance moves writing. That might look all right too. Maybe I should put
some under her face. Yeah. Something is
going to happen. Definitely. Something like that. This background was
such a good decision. It looks beautiful and it
really sees my space. Okay. Same so much of it's
getting covered up. Well, least I know how beautiful it was and the little bit that you can
see looks amazing. What about my
fabulous lizard girl? She's come out well. The tabag paper has
dissolved nicely. Astronauts on and I've chopped out that
fabulous bird head. Man, he's just too cute. I had to use him. I'm going
to put him right there. Then I'm going to
decide what else I want to add on this page. Thinking this one's
filled up quite nicely with the astronaut and
my beautiful background. But I might add some more
elements to this page. The whole idea of this parallel universe and the surrealist art has
been just so much fun. Have a look at that.
I'm loving it. It makes me smile. Right. What's next? So I added some craft
paper onto that side of trees because we can't
have it looking to normal. We're doing a surrealist piece. So now I'm going to
add some other shapes onto the page just to make
it look even more weird. I'm telling you this has really
been a lot of fun letting your imagination run wild and crazy with whatever
you can possibly think of. Adding a few other
little elements to the page just to make it
more bizarre, more surreal. What about a fish? I'm thinking? Yes. Let's put a
fish on the trees. That's work. And what
else have I got, I've got some more fish. Well, maybe we'll
add some more fish. Then the fish are down and I've decided to add a
little bit of bling to the page just to
lift the colors with one of my beautiful
dance moves stencils, which I've put with stencil
butter onto white tissue. Now the reason I did
that was because the white tissue should
dissolve quite well. Then you just see the
beautiful shape of the dance moves that hopefully, blend quite well
into the background. It just means that it's a little easier than trying
to get the stencil in the right place where I want it by having it on
the white tissue. But we'll see how it dries
if that theory is correct. I like that you can see a little eye peeking
through there. You like my flying fish. It really is all a bit of fun and we'll see
how it dries up, and if I add
anything else to it. Mm, a little tempted
with this owl. He's rather cute,
don't you think? Yeah, maybe I just
might have to finish it with this crowned owl in
the corner like that. Question is, is it
bizarre enough, yes, I think so. What do you think of
my parallel universe? I had so much fun putting
these elements together, getting really creative and knowing you just can't be
too bizarre with this theme. Looking at the
surrealist artists, you can see how weird and
wacky the art movement was. It's really a lot of fun
to allow yourself to play, to explore, put something
crazy together. I really hope I get to see
some of your universes? That would be just so much fun.
6. Nature's Fantasy: Day 32, nature's fantasy. Explore the magic of
nature by crafting a fantastical world inspired by the beauty of
the natural realm. Mix real world flora
and fauna with your imaginative creations in a collage that celebrates
the wonders of the Earth. So you can be as real or
imaginative as you want to be. Maybe you want your collage
to be more realistic. Perhaps the parallel universe
sent you over the edge. Or maybe you're really enjoying these imaginative landscapes and creative realms and
you want to keep going incorporating these fantastical
themes into your college. Really, it's up to you Mm hmm. I think I'm going to
do a bit of both, a little bit of nature, a little bit of
fantasy and see where my fantastic nature
inspired collage ends up. It might be on another planet. But I know it's going to
be a whole lot of fun. Don't forget to use the
prints and the textures from the previous classes
because I know they're going to work really
well with these themes. Right. Let's get the
art journal out. Find all the supplies and
let's make something amazing. Pretty excited for this lesson and I had a brilliant idea. I decided I wanted to create some jelly prints with
some actual fresh flowers. I walked to my
local floors shop. It's actually called
the village Florist. The floor shop is
absolutely beautiful. Don't they smell amazing
when you walk in. A all of the colors and shapes
of the glorious flowers, and I ended up deciding on
one of the beautiful poses. It was actually quite hard. There's so many to choose from. But I came home with this one and I'm pretty happy
with my choice. The lady at the Florist
actually gave me some extra flowers because I told her I was going
to print with them. She gave me some
flowers that were a little bit old or that
she couldn't use. I thought that was pretty kind. I've pulled out my jelly
plate and I decided I would use my extra flowers first
and see how they print. I'm putting muted
pink on the plate. One simple color, I decided I was going
to start very simply, push the flowers onto the plate, see how they print,
and then I thought I would develop my
brilliant ideas from there. Using the extra flowers, they work so good. Look how detailed they are
and how beautiful they look. I pushed the flowers into the paint and pulled the
print straight away, and I'm using tea bag paper. I've never actually used
tea bag paper before. I bought some recently, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's pretty soft. It pulls quite well. It's very strong. I'm going to experiment
some more with it. It's definitely not as strong
as wet strength tissue, but it does feel more textured and softer,
which I really like. Look at the incredible
detail of the flowers. I'm so impressed with
how they printed. Yes, of course, I might have gotten into a
printing frenzy. Next, I pulled apart the posy and picked out
some more of the flowers. I'm using orange on the plate, definitely influenced by the beautiful
colors of the flowers. Even the posy, yes. I picked the one with
the orange paper around it because I
just love these colors. They're so happy to me. I'm using a couple of
different sizes on the plate, which look really good. The flowers just work
like a stamp, basically. Then I pulled the print with
liquitex basics in gold. Look how fabulous it is. This one's actually
still got some of the ghost print from
the print before, from that color,
but it works really well because it's a
really nice texture. I like all the different shapes and the variety of the flowers. I think it's working
really well, and it's just so easy to do. This one on being very brave
and starting with yellow. This is a nickel so yellow. It's a beautiful paint. It's very transparent. Of course, I had to
throw in a bit of orange because it was
just a little too yellow. I pushed the different
flowers on and let it dry. I rolled on the next color. I think it was magenta, and I sprayed it
with a little water. Now, you know how
this technique goes. You have to wait for each layer to dry before you move
on to the next one. That's going to make
successful prints and a really beautiful texture. Then I pulled this
print with bronze. Now, what I absolutely love about this print is
I put the flowers back on the same places when the paint had
already started to dry. As I pushed the flower
on and pulled it off, it pulled more of the paint off. I have more of the background
color coming through, and I think that works
really well because it makes a more defined print you can see bigger areas of the flowers, and that really is
a whole lot of fun. I love that you can see the beautiful bronze coming through. That worked really well. There's so many ways to
print these flowers, you just have to experiment, try some ideas and
see what works. Now the next one, I
started with muted pink again and created my beautiful
flower pattern design. I then put on a layer of
transparent iron oxide, and of course, I sprayed it with gold mine because now
I'm just on a roll. Now I just have to spray that
beautiful bling everywhere. I pulled the print
with titan buff and it did pull a
little on the plate. Yes, because there was a spot of the gold mine in
that wasn't quite dry. Now, what did I say? Wait for each layer to dry. But I absolutely love the details in these prints
and I was having so much fun. I was getting so excited. I just wanted to try the
next one and the next one. You can see the beautiful
gold mine in this, you can see the splashes
coming through there. This one is really quite detailed in the
beautiful flower prints. I'm really loving and I
think it looks beautiful. Remember, You do have to
wait for the layers to dry. Then I pulled the posy
apart a little more and pulled out some of the leaves and some of the smaller flowers. I wanted to see what the other shapes of the
flowers would print like, if they would print at
all because they're very delicate and
they're really tiny. I wasn't sure how
well they would print if they would
leave much of a mark. I was using muted
gray with this one. It's a really nice color. I'm really enjoying these liquitex muted series
at the moment. I think the colors
are beautiful. Now, the flowers
work like a mask. The first print, you're just taking off the paint
from around the flowers. It's the ghost print
that we really want. Of course, you can add
color to that first print. You can print over it
again with more shakes, which we've done before, or you could spray
it with the zinc, or you can use it in
your collage to add multiple layers because if you've put it on
any of the tissues, you'll be able to see underneath
layers coming through. There's so many possibilities
for using that print. But of course, I absolutely
love the ghost print best. I gave it a spray with a little bronze shimmer and pulled the print
with tightened buff. I absolutely love it. Look how good it looks. You could see the
texture there from the beautiful spray bronze
shimmer on the print, and I really love the detail of the flowers and the leaves
in the beautiful gray color. It works better than I
thought it was going to. I'm pretty happy with it. Of course, I had to do it again. Why would we want to do it
once when we can do it twice. I'm using the same muted
gray with this one, putting a bunch of the
little tiny flowers and the leaves on the plate, pushing it down
with wet strength, tissue, just to get all of that paint from
around the flowers. Now you have to give it
a really good press with your fingers to get in and around all those little
bits and pieces. I even gave it a roll
with my brayer just to make sure it was really getting contact
with the gel plate. Because you want to try and get as much detail in that
ghost print as you can. Now, this time after the
ghost print was dry, I put on another layer of paint and decided to push
the flowers into it because I wanted to create a background of
the flower shapes behind the beautiful
little tiny ones and the leaves that I was
printing with the ghost print. I decided, let's try it. I pushed the flowers
into the paint. Of course, you have
to let it dry, gave it a spritz everything
got thrown onto this print. And then I pulled the
print with titan bath. I absolutely love it. You can see the
glorious flowers here. You can see the leaves
in the muted gray. You can see all the
tiny little ones. But then behind
that, you can see the fabulous shapes of the flower prints where
I've pushed it into. I think it was transparent
enoxide that I was using. Pushed those flowers
onto the plate to get that great design
behind it as a background. I'm loving it. I think
it looks fabulous. And I really liked the
way that I built up the ideas and created the
prints consecutively, using the flowers and then
using the little ones. Then the last one has
got everything in it. Flowers and the little ones, the leaves and the
bronze shimmer, all of the above, and I
enjoyed myself immensely. Possibilities are endless. I could have kept going
and going and printing and printing because I was
having so much fun. I'm quite surprised at how
detailed the flowers print. I'm really impressed with them. Now I just have to
decide which ones do I want to use to
create my collage, my nature's fantasy, am I going to add something other
worldly in my collage? That's a question too, or am I just going to leave it with these beautiful
floor prints. Well, we'll have to pull
out the art journal, have a little think and see
what we're going to create.
7. Finishing Project 32: I've got my art journal
out and all of my prints. Now the problem is going to be deciding because I
absolutely love all of them. I love the gold shining
through on this one. That would work really well. I really like these
ones as well. I have to decide which
ones I'm going to use, and then what am
I going to add to it to make it a
little bit different? Give it another dimension. I'm not sure because they're just beautiful and
I really love them. Look at that the way
that flower printed. These ones with the
beautiful sparkly gold mine on the man, that just glorious. Now, I have to decide
I'm going to have to break it down into what
can I not live without. I'm thinking maybe
this one because I just think the prince
really defined well, and it's got my sparkly
bling which I love. Then I was thinking if I
put a print on like this. I think I might add some glass beads as
they added dimension. If I put a stencil
on in glass beads, which has got some
flowery shapes on top of my flower print, I'm adding another
dimension to it. I really like the
thought of that. Now, we looked at glass
beads in the previous class. If you've still got some, how much fun is this? I love using the
materials a few times. When I put them on, they're
going to be completely white and then they usually
take at least 24 hours, sometimes two days depending on the weather to dry and
they dry perfectly clear. But I want to have
that glorious shape over the top of these
beautiful flowers. Now, the, do I want to use this print or do I want to use? This print man, it's going to be a tough one to decide that could look quite
dramatic on that color. That could work really well. A few of them would
work really well. On this side, do
I want this print or this print because I really like the way it's so different to
the flower print. Maybe I'll use
this one because I love how it's got
everything on it. It's got those shapes and the
flower is printed behind. Then I'm going to have to
find something else to add a little extra three
dimensional something to the print just to give it a little bit
something special. Well, I'll nail
down that decision, glue them onto my pages and then we'll see
where we're at. Well, it definitely wasn't an easy decision because
I love all of the prints. I think they turned
out really well. I think they turned out better
than I actually expected, which is really nice. I decided on these ones because
I think what I like about it is that it will remind me when I flip back
through my art journal, what the technique was and
what I liked about it. I absolutely love the
detail in this print. I think it turned out amazing. I like the way this one has the flower prints behind it and the smaller
flowers and leaves. Ghost print on the top. It's a good example
of so many options. There's so many
possibilities and things you can try with
such a simple technique. The backgrounds are down. Definitely going with
my glass bead idea. I think that'll be a lot of fun. I'm going to put that
next on this side with dis stencil and have a rummage around and find something
to put on here. I've got my glass
bead and I'm putting it on this stencil,
which fits perfect. I love the glass beads. I love how beautiful
and clear they go, adding another dimension to the artwork without
adding any more color. But the beautiful texture is just glorious.
I'll put this on. It's adding another
dimension to my flowers, which I'm really excited about. It's like the invisible realm. That's how I see it. I might just put it
in different places, not over the entire stencil, in bits and pieces
of the design. That would be fun. Then
we'll have to leave it to dry and I've got to find
something for the other side. I think this is going
to look just beautiful. I think that's enough mostly
got it in the center, and I'm happy about this plan. Let's have a look at that. Yes, when n is perfectly clear, it's going to be beautiful and shine with the
glorious glass beads, and it adds that invisible realm or other dimensions to my. Nature's fantasy.
I just love it. Glass beads on and I've pulled out this lotus flower mask. This is from PMR Studio. As you can see, it's got the beautiful
ridescent bronze fine on it. Of course it has because
that's what I like to print with. But
what do you think? I'm thinking it would look
amazing, putting it on there. It gives the flowers
another dimension, a three dimensional aspect to the page and it really
suits the design. I think the shape of this lotus flower suits the
shape of these flowers. I think it looks great. I'm going to do it. I'm going to stick it
right there like that. On the page. I love it. I think it finishes
that really well. That's going to dry perfectly clear and look
beautiful and shiny. I'm really happy with
these collage pages. I loved making the prints. It was such a pleasure, such a joy playing
with the flowers, and the natural textures
on the gel plate. I definitely want to do that
again. That was really fun. I think there's so many
ideas that we can try using the actual natural
elements on the plate. Different layers,
different textures. As we move along in the class and we learn
different techniques, we just get to build
them into other ideas. I really liked spraying the
layer on the gel plate. I thought that
worked really well to add the texture
behind the flowers. It's really fun to keep
using the techniques, keep learning, growing
and developing. That's the whole
point of the class. It's about developing
your creativity, learning different techniques, experimenting along the way, and growing as a
creative person. Of course, it has to be a lot of fun or I don't want to play. Which is why we
have such a variety of themes and textures. By the time you actually finish all 100 days of
this whole series, you will know
everything that I know. Isn't that just exciting? I think that's pretty exciting. So I'm going to let these pages. I'll give you a I can't wait to see what you're
creating with this theme. Don't forget you can post as many photos as you'd
like in my Facebook group. I just would love to see
what you're working on. Okay. We'll let that dry
give you a close up, and then we're on
to the next lesson. I think it's space
odyssey. How exciting.
8. Space Odyssey Adventure: Day 33, and we have
space odyssey adventure. Journey into the cosmos and construct your own
space odyssey collage. Merge reality with
science fiction by depicting
intergalactic landscapes, planets, and
extraterrestrial life forms. We're looking for ET. It's going to be a
whole lot of fun. What textures are
you going to use to create those planets
or moon scapes. Oh, yeah, that could
be a whole lot of fun. We could pull out
some of those paste and gels from the
previous lesson. And what is your
galactic space odyssey going to incorporate? Are you going to have rockets or planets or little green men? I know. You're going to really have to stretch
your imagination, push past the boundaries of
what you've created before, and see where we end up. Maybe we're going to the moon. Maybe we're going past the moon, It's a whole lot of fun. I'm so excited to be on
this journey with you and I can't wait to see what
you're going to create. I'm so excited for this
class on our space odyssey. First of all, we're
going to make some incredible universe
prints with the gel plate. I'm making plain colored
blue background papers first because then we're going to be adding a
secret ingredient. Right. Now, my blue papers
have just barely dry. And we're going to add
the next layer using the secret ingredient to create our fabulous universe
papers on the gel plate. Adding a little
ultramarine violet and some cobalt blue
onto the plate, and then I'm pulling out the secret ingredient
of baby powder. Because what we're
doing is creating fabulous starlight textures on the gel print using the
fabulous baby powder. Now, this is the blue background
that I already painted. It's only just dry, but when you put the
second layer on with the fabulous baby powder on the plate and it
smells really nice. Then it's going to create wonderful starlight
galaxy looking prints. T Now, what we're going to
do is add another layer, and we're going to use
some interference paint because the galaxy
is not just blue, it's got incredible
colors through it. If the baby powder doesn't
get absorbed into your paint, you can easily dust it off
once your print is dry. Let's have a little bit
of a printing frenzy, create some galaxy type prints. And then I think
I'm going to pull out that Nat Geo magazine with the space theme
and have a look at what I want to put
together for the collage. Using the space odyssey
theme is so much fun. Have a real experiment, play with some printing
and see what you create. The prints do look better as you add more and
more layers to them. Also, the plate builds up with the paint and
the baby powder. The baby powder
basically is just creating a resist on the paper, resisting the paint and
creating that star like. Texture onto it. Now, I'm adding a little bit of interference paint
on top of this one. Just like that, little
bit of texture. Some of my fabulous
psi's secret ingredient. Which is coming down way too
fast, a blue background. Let's have a look and
see how that prints. You just have to try different ideas and see what's
going to work the best. Now that one's looking
a bit more galaxy like. Now we're getting somewhere. Once the plate builds
up with too much, you either have to pull the
ghost print or clean it off. But it's only baby
founder, it's not too bad. I might try using straight onto a white piece this time because I have such a
build up of the plate. Now, maybe I have to
push the bottle a little bit softer because it
comes out such big clumps, but look how fabulous it looks. I might leave this
piece of paper on the plate just a
little bit longer so that it gets a chance to
pull up some of those underneath layers
because they're going to be looking beautiful. There's quite a few
layers on there now. It's quite a
fascinating technique. It's really easy just throwing the baby
powder on the plate. You just have to remember to have some fun experiment and try layering your prints because that's what I have found
works a whole lot better. Still not quite picking up
all the way to the bottom, but that's okay
because it's going to create a great ghost print
once I finished printing. But look how
fabulous that looks. That's definitely got the galaxy feel and so easy,
some blue paint, a little bit of
purple or what was it called medium violets and
some baby powder. Walla. Away we go, we're
into the universe. That is just so much fun. The Interference paint really does add that
galaxy color to it. A few stars, let's print. Right. So then I decided
my galaxy needed a supernova or something, some stars exploding
or something. So I put some of the descent
bronze fine on the plane. It didn't turn out exactly
how I had in my mind, but I sprayed it
with some water, pushed the paint around, and decided to leave it
and see how it dries. Now the thing is, you
do have to experiment, try your ideas and don't
be afraid to get it wrong or to muck it up because you can print
straight over it. The next print I
took, of course, already had the leftover
bronze on the plate. I rolled on some of the
beautiful iridescent blue fine and some of the violet as well. Put it on a print I'd
already taken and pulled it. It looks fabulous. I absolutely love it, and it's my favorite so far. You do have to create several
layers of the prints. They do work better if you
keep printing on top of them. The hard part is waiting
for them to dry, of course, that's
always a problem. The experiments
have worked well. I'm really happy with the print, and I think there's so
much to explore with such a simple technique
of using baby powder. Right. I have my
beautiful galaxy prints. I'm so happy with them, they look glorious
and what I love about this technique is how
different the prints will look depending on what
you do with the layers and the powder and also the
consecutive printing of putting it on the paper. This is one of the first prints it looks fabulous
just like it is. You'll notice that if I rub it, there's no powder actually on it because all the powder
stuck to the plate and it created that resist with the paint and there's
none actually on the paper. But as you continue to
print and you're rolling over your paint and adding more and more powder
to the plate. It does build up on your
print like this one. You can see how
that's rubbing off. Now, that's not a problem. You can easily wipe it
with a cloth if you want to make sure that all of the
powder is off the print. But I'm going to leave it alone because I actually
don't mind it. I think it's all right. It's
going in my art journal. It's not a matter of stressing
out about being archival. It's all a bit of fun. I don't mind being on the paper. This one is one of my favorites. I love it. I think this one
looks very galaxy like. Remember, you do have to
have a little experiment, try different ideas, add
more layers to your prints. They do look a lot better. This one was the ghost print from one of the last
prints that I took. Look how good it looks. It's really patchy
because it had a lot of dried paint still left on the plate and a lot of the baby powder and
when I pulled it, it come up, all kind
of lay like that? I love it. I think it's
a whole lot of fun. I'm definitely using these
in the collage today, and I'm going to
have a flip through my National Geographic
magazine and definitely pull out something from here to add onto the fabulous
galaxy prints. What's it going to be? What
am I going to be able to find You never quite know. That's my plan. That's
where I'm definitely. I'm pulling him out for sure. I'm going to float him in space. I might have to make
a moon or a planet. Maybe I'll pull out
some coso paper and make a moon with that. That could be fun
because they've got some beautiful textured papers
and look at these planets. I definitely maybe
might cut out a couple of these planets and put on
my beautiful galaxy prints. That's what I'm going to do. How exciting space dy adventure. Here we go. A.
9. Finishing Project 33: Okay. Got my art journal. Now, I just have to decide, I'm definitely going
to use this one. I really like this print. It's got all of
those elements of the baby powder and a
little bit of bronze. The interference
paint didn't that turn out gorgeous,
love those colors. So that's going to go there, and then I'm going to
add touch decision. The prints are so
beautiful and I've got so many Which one do
I want on this side? That's pretty nice.
Or maybe this one, which is a little
bit darker. Okay. I think I'll put this
one on this side, and then I'm going to
cut out some bits from the Nat Geo magazine and add them into my
beautiful space. Right. So the background, beautiful pages are down, but they're so glorious. The textures and the colors. It's such a unique way
of creating the prints. I absolutely love them. I don't want to put too much on them because I don't
want to cover them up. Look at the
combination of colors. I mean, you couldn't
reproduce it in a fit. Even if you try, you can
never reproduce them. Again, that's
absolutely beautiful. I'm going to put a
little something but definitely not too much. I pulled the planets out of the Nat Geo magazine and the little astronaut
floating in space. I just have to work
out how I want to position them.
They're pretty nice. And I think I might add
a moon to the page. I've pulled out some Coso paper. Look how beautiful that is. That's definitely
moon texture like. If I put it on the
page like that, I'm thinking probably a sign plate, moon,
what do you think? What do you think?
What do you think? Yeah? Something like that. I'm going to draw
around this with a moon s shaped plate
and see how that looks. I've got all my
elements in place, fabulous floating astronaut
in the avise the galaxy. I'm going to put
him right there. And I've got my mood. I might give that a bit
of spray, actually, just to deepen the
color a little. Perhaps we'll see
how it dries up. Because we could always paint it once it's dry
with a little bit of maybe silver or something gray just to give it a bit more tone or quality. That's such beautiful so paper. I love the circles, the.in that's just working
so well for our moonscape. Then I've got the other
beautiful planets. I'm going to put that
one in the middle of the pages and then
these two over here. I can still see lots of
my beautiful background, but it's got the
glorious galaxies. I might even put a
smaller one there. Yeah, I might do that. Well, we'll see how all this
dries up and then think about whether or not I
want to add anything else. Go to add some
ridescent silver to my beautiful moon because it's just a little
bit too white. And the moon is definitely
not that white. I'm just going to
gray it up a bit, add a bit of color to it. See how that looks. I like the way to dry
it up you can see the underneath color coming through the holes,
they look really good. The sf is quite shiny. Might look even better than
I thought it was going to. So I'm pretty happy
with my pages. I'm loving my space odyssey. It was so much fun creating those papers
with the baby powder. Have a plate, have a bit of fun. You don't have to use baby
powder, if you don't want to. You can get the same
effect using cornstarch. That works just the same. Yes, I've tried both. I just like the baby powder
because it smells better. Anyway, I'm pretty happy
with my space odyssey. Little bit of shine on the moon. Yeah. I might even give it a bit of a spray just to
give it a bit of texture. How about a little
bit of steel summit? Oh, yeah, that's much
better. Look at that. That's what I'm looking for. I'll let the page dry, give you a close, pretty
happy with our space odyssey. That was a whole lot of fun.
10. Timeless Tales: Day 34 timeless tales
dive into the past or envision the future by crafting a collage inspired
by timeless tales, blend historical elements
with futuristic designs or create a unique narrative that spans centuries in
a single artwork. So what are you going
to incorporate? Maybe you've got some ancestors that you want to bring
into this one or maybe you just want it to be all about an imaginative
time period. We could pull in some of that steam punk craft paper that I used in the first class because it does have
that Victorian era with a little bit of
maybe futuristic ideas, Oh, even some of those surreal images or pictures could work
really well in this one. I think this one could be
quite a mix of a few of the other lessons from the papers and pictures
that we've collected. Or you can create something completely
different altogether. It really is open
to interpretation. It's definitely all
about expanding your imagination and
your narrative skills in creating those collages. Flex those muscles, and let's
see what we can create. Recently, Mum and
I moved to Napa. It's the Art Deco
Capital of New Zealand, and I just love this golden era of beautiful
opulent colors and design. So this particular
era is going to be the starting place for
my timeless tales today. I'm pretty excited
because I absolutely love the colors and the design and the opulence and the
metallic gold, of course. So here we are taking
a vintage car tour, and of course, we
had to dress up. Don't we look
absolutely fabulous. I absolutely love the art
deco and the art uvea style. It's so glamorous, it's so
opules it's so much fun. In this inspiration, I decided to pull out
all of my gold paint. I wanted to have a look and see what I had in the cupboard, digging to the back
of the drawers to find things that you
haven't used for a while, and you often forget that
you've even got them. I wanted to look at
the different tones, the different shades because
different brands have a slightly different look to the different color
even if it says gold. I decided to swatch it out on my watercolor sheet.
And it was really fun. I started with the
acrylic paints in the different brands, labeling them so I knew exactly
who creates which color. Then I went on to
pull out the inks. There's a few different inks, the liquitex inks and
the Chinese gold inks, which I think is the
most metallic looking. I even put the zinc spray in, which is my favorite
in gold mine. That looks really cool. Then I went on to pull
out the posca pens. I know I didn't even
remember that I had so many variations
of gold in the carpet. The posca pen in metallic
gold looks quite good. But this new one that I've got, it's called fans
Archie the brand. One of the girls
told me about it. I didn't even know it existed. It's a similar style
to the Posca Mopapen. It's got a nice fat top and nib and the paint
flows out really well. I was really excited
to use it because I hadn't used it before and I bought it recently
from Amazon. It flows pretty well and it's got a really nice gold color. I think that's going
to be a winner. I also pulled out the
metallic watercolor paints. I bought those ages ago. Had a little look at the gold in those shades and they're
pretty nice too. The interference gold doesn't
show up much on the white. You have to put it
on black to really see the quality and the
shine of the paint. But that's worth putting on the sheet just so I
remember it's there, and of course, stencil
butter in champagne gold. We can't go past that. Now, doesn't this sheet
look absolutely beautiful? I love it. I love looking at
it and thinking about it. If I was in a hurry and
wanted to make some prints, I would know which
particular tone of gold I wanted to
use. It was so fun. I decided I was going to do it with the copper
and the bronze. What I found quite amazing about these two metallic colors is how different they are
with the different brands. Some of the copper colors in the brands are really similar. You can see that they're
almost identical, but some of them are
really different. This one is the high flow. To me, that one looks
almost like the bronze. This is the liquiitx bronze, which is a brownie bronze compared to the
iridescent bronze fine. Look how different they are. And here's the bronze shimmer. That's a whole lot of fun too. This is the liquitch inks and look how dark
that bronze is. Compared to the poscapen. I know. It was really fun. I even tried some of the metallic watercolors
in the bronze. I'm pretty impressed with
how many actually have. Here's another fans
Archie marker. That works really well. Of course, the stencil
butter, we have to have that, and I'm just so excited for all of these beautiful
metallic colors. It's a really good idea to
swatch out colors like this. You could pull out all
of your metallic paints, have a look and see
what you've got, Acrylic paints, paint
markers, watercolors, inks. I mean, it really does go on. We do get a little carried away when we're buying
different art supplies, or is that just me? Okay. Now I've pulled out all of these magnificent, beautiful
metallic paints. I just have to create some
jelly prints from my collage. I started with some one
color solid backgrounds. Absolutely, beautiful,
opulent, gold, and bronze and copper. Oh, man, I just had so much fun. Next, I tried with the fans Archie paint marker
straight onto the plate, adding some more layers
and pulling the print. It makes for such an
interesting pattern and a fabulous background. I put the poscmpa on the plate, but it was a little thick. And a little smudgy. But if you wait
for things to dry, you can put more layers on. Then I put a stencil over the top and it looks
absolutely fabulous. Of course, this one, I had to pull out the gorgeous bronze, ridescent bronze fine,
my absolute favorite. I'm pulling out some of
my favorite stencils. These are from the PMR Studio. I just love them. They make great designs, great patterns. With this one here, I
started with the posca pens, I started drawing on it in dashes and circles
and making marks. Then after the
posca pen was dry, I pulled the print and finally, I added some stencil
in copper onto it, which looks really cool. I'm pretty happy
with that because it's got a really
interesting texture. Of course, I kept printing
and printing as I do. Now I have a whole
beautiful collection of opulent papers in beautiful,
rich metallic tones. I just love it, and I'm
going to have to decide now, what am I going to
use for the collage? The theme is timeless tales. My era is art deco. But what will I use
for the focal point? That's going to be the question. Right. Art journal
is out and there's so many possibilities with all
of these beautiful prints. Plus I have this fabulous
stampia scrapbooking paper, which is very clip inspired. The beautiful opulent
art uvea, style of art. Anything from here would
work with my theme. It's just going
to be a matter of deciding which I want to add. Oh, that looks cute. I like that idea. Some of these pages
are pretty fun. That looks good. I
really like that. I could put that with some
of my fabulous jelly prints, or I could just do
something abstract. That looks pretty good, too. I'm loving all of it. I could even just take
a section of that. That would work as well. Oh, man, how am I
going to decide? It's also beautiful and
there's so many possibilities. Let's start with putting on
some gel prints on thinking. I'm loving these colors. It's just going
to be a matter of deciding which colors I like. This one because it's
really dramatic. Yes, I do love me
a bit of drama. Maybe I'll just put a
piece of that one there. Perhaps some with the beautiful. Copper tone on there like that. That would work.
This is gorgeous. Yes, I have to have it. And perhaps do we want to
go or is the question? That's pretty nice,
very dramatic. Or we could go
lighter with one of these beautiful backgrounds,
that would work too. Even the gold would be fabulous. Okay. I'm going to
narrow it down. Make some decisions, cut some of the papers and stick
on the background. The background pages are on. They look fabulous.
I'm loving the colors. Now, I did pull out a couple of these pages from
the craft pack, and I'm really loving the Gustav inspired designs
because that's my era. That's my timeless tale. But I don't want to
stick the whole thing on because it's going to comer
up my stunning jelly prints. I think I'm going to cut
sections with my knife. And put it over the top. Somehow, not sure but I'm
going with that idea. Pi on this side,
and then this side. I'm either going to add some of these squares which
I really like, or maybe the kiss by Gustav. But I'm really taken
with these squares. They look really cool. I just have to decide which
ones I like the most. I'm thinking maybe
maybe three of them, perhaps like that on there. That could add a little
bit of fun to that side. That's what we're doing next.
11. Finishing Project 34: Now, it did take me quite
a while to decide how I wanted to place these pieces because they could have
gone a few different ways. I also changed my
mind on this piece. I originally was going
to have this one, but the squares
are two square now compared to the beautiful
flowing of those shapes. I decided to go with
this piece instead. I think that's going
to work better. Okay. I'm happier
with it because it's got more of the
rounded shapes in it. So we're just got
to glue it all down and then decide if I want
to add anything else, put any more highlights on, or think about what
I might want to put onto the page once
these pieces are down. Okay. All the papers are down. I ended up adding a beautiful
little clock face onto this section because
it is timeless tails. I wanted to put a
time piece in it somewhere and I felt
that the black was a great way to bring that color from behind there over to this
side of the page. It's contrasting beautiful with the copper of my background, and I'm really happy with that. Now this side is
looking beautiful, it is mostly dry. Then I was thinking, well, if we really wanted to
add an impact with gold, I'm thinking we need
to add some gold boil. Yes, I just have to. I've got this mirror
effect from Pavio Now, I actually haven't
used this before, but I've seen it used and
it doesn't look that hard. I'm pretty sure we're going
to be able to work this out. Look how fabulous this is. You can't really get any
more gold than that. That is just magnificent. That's what we're
going to put on, and I'm going to fix it with this the Mixon
relief PBO adhesive. What I like about it is
the nice fine nozzle. I'm thinking that I'd
really like to add some of this beautiful gold leaf to these patterns on
this piece of paper, and that would be a
whole lot of fun. Now, the fixative is
white and when it dries, it goes completely clear. You have to wait for it to dry and then put the
gold leaf on top. I know it's always about
waiting for things to dry. That's probably going
to be the hardest part, but I'm pretty excited. The gold leaf looks amazing. I'm just going to
add some to here, highlighting my fabulous
Clint inspired pages. Then they're going to really shine with some
fabulous glamour. It's really fun. It's
actually quite therapeutic. So I'll keep adding
someone here. Let it dry and then I can't
wait to add the gold. I've got lots of swirly circles. Now I just have to
wait for them to dry and then we'll put the
beautiful gold leaf on it. Yeah. Right. Now my
fabulous gilding paste is completely dry because
you can't see a thing, and it does feel sticky. It's completely transparent. The fun begins. We put one of these
beautiful gold sheets on top of the area where I have the gilding paste
and give it a bit of a rub. Look, now you can see it. You can see where my
fabulous circles are. It's pretty fun. It's pretty
easy. That's for sure. Really not hard at all. Then after you've given it a good rub rub it
over, pull it off. Tu man. Look how fabulous that looks. I love it. A lot easier than
actual gold leaf flakes. That's for sure.
Love this stuff. This is fantastic. It's probably going to
be my new favorite. That is so easy, lemon squeezy. Now, if we're talking about gold and opulence and art deco, we definitely can't go past
the beautiful gold foil. Look at the page.
Isn't that fabulous? Even that itself
is a work of art. Absolutely, love it. It looks beautiful, so shiny
and it so suits my theme. I absolutely love the
look of this gold foil. You know, I might go a
little crazy with this now. I think it's so beautiful and
so shiny and so very gold. I'm really happy
with my collage. I had a lot of fun creating
all the jelly prints, enjoying my art deco, art nouveau, timeless tales. I think it's so
beautiful. So much fun. Love the multiple layers, and I can't wait to see what you're going to
do with this theme. Onto the last lesson
for this class. How very exciting. Oh.
12. Mystical Realms: Day 35 Mystical realms. Use any or all of this
week's prompts to create your page full of fantastical elements
and wondrous delights. I absolutely love putting all the different elements from my favorite lessons
into one collage, because then you get to
pick and choose which fits you really liked
and put it all together. What mighty adventures
have you created? I can't wait to see what fabulous inventions and imaginations you've come
up with with your collage. Which papers and textures
did you put together? This collage is a real
celebration of the pieces and the parts and the pictures and pages that you enjoyed
about this week. Put them all together in
one big surreal world. Whole fantasy in imagination. I think that's definitely
what I'm going to do. I'm going to create my own
reality and my own planet. Yes, that does sound like me. I can't wait to see
what you're creating, so don't forget to
show me your pick. I absolutely love to see the
photos of your collages. Okay, I'm going to pull out all my favorite bits
and pieces from the lessons of this class and see which ones I want
to put together. I love about the last lesson of each class is being
able to combine some of the techniques and
papers and prints and textures that we've made throughout all the
different lessons. I find that just so much
fun and so enjoyable. I really love a couple of these beautiful flower prints that I talk with
the little posy. I've got a couple of those left, so I might use some of those. I also have some of yesterday's jelly
printing frenzy They are absolutely fabulous
to loving the metallic. Oh, my gosh, love
the metallic paints. This one is really quite
fascinating, what's left of it? I used this in
yesterday's collage, I really love the design. Yet when I first did it, I thought it was
a total failure. I put the big fat black
posca Mopa marker on the gel plate and it was so. Full of paint and fluid, that it was really quite
smudgy when I printed it. I put it aside, didn't
think much of it. But when it was dry, I then put this stencil over it with the white
pearl stencil butter. It looks absolutely fabulous
and I totally love it. You really don't know what can become of your print or what
you can turn your prints. Into a something doesn't
work exactly how you put it aside and go over it with another layer because there's
so much else you can do. I'm thinking of
using some of that again today because
I like it so much. I also have some of the fabulous
steam punk papers left. I loved doing the steam punk
lesson, that was so fun. Then also some of
the clip inspired craft paper as well.
I have some of that. What I love is joining
the techniques together. I decided I wanted to use
that baby powder technique. I really liked it and I put it with the beautiful
metallic colors, layers of the bronze
and the copper. It was a whole lot of fun and the prints turned out rather
beautiful I'm thinking. Then I gave them a little bit of pritza with the bronze
shimmer and some of the gold mine because
I wanted them to shine just a little bit more and
look how glorious they look. Look at the fabulous
textures on it. This is what I like
about this technique. Is the incredible
layers and textures on the print from where the baby powder is
sitting on the plate. So much fun. So I'm thinking
I might use some of those. As well, of course,
I've got to fit it all on my little
journal page, not sure how that's going to go, but it's going to
look beautiful. I may even put some of that beautiful gold foil onto the page because I really
enjoyed that yesterday. Loving this print with the
flowers and the leaves, and I'm thinking that I'd
really like to add one of the steam punk es just to make it a little bit
more beyond reality. Because that's
being our theme for this whole class and that's
just been so much fun. We definitely have
to have some of this fabulous gold texture. It looks like an old
wall in Venice and maybe maybe some of these
steam punk clock pieces. You know, I I put
some of these on, I'm going to go and get
some of those cogs again. Oh, man, such decisions, where are we going to start? I think I'll start
with this piece and see where I go from there. Tough decisions had to be made, but I'm pretty happy with
how this is developing. I absolutely love these elements from the previous lessons. They make me so happy. I love the steam punk look and that beautiful print that I just had to add another piece on there
because I loved it so much. That's looking got some of my fabulous baby powder texture
in there, with this page, although I think I could
probably finish it is one of my thousands of trinkets that I
bought for the glass. I know I did get a
little carried away. Something on this one
would be really nice gold. Maybe baby or do we want
silver? I like the silver. It really stands out also matches really well with the white pearl
stencil butter there. Going to put a bit
of PVA on that one. Then I'll finish
that off nicely. Then on the other side, I think I'm going to add
the little clin inspired. Darling just there. Then I'll have to think about. I need some touch ups
on this piece here. Maybe I'll get out
that gold foil because that looks beautiful
or perhaps I might even cut another piece out of this like I did yesterday,
that could work too. Something like that's
going to work. Once I decide, I'll
stick that on first. I'm really liking the
look at these pages. It's just a whole
lot of fun to me. I think I'm going to finish with some of the
beautiful gold foil. Add some texture onto
these leaf shapes here, maybe some on the
other page as well, and we'll just see once I start putting it on how
carried away I get, which which is quite possible. So I'm putting the fabulous
adhesive on that has to dry completely go entirely clear and then I'll add the beautiful
gold leaf to the page. I think that it should
finish this page off nicely. Also, it's very clean inspired. The beautiful gold leaf to me is very much keeping in the theme of the
gorgeous girl there. I think using this one with
the really thin line of the applicator is
going to work really beautiful on the dark muted
gray color of the print. So we'll just have to
wait until it's dry and then I'll put on the
beautiful gold leaf. Yeah, I can't help myself. I have to add some
over here as well. Highlight a few of
these circle shapes. It's going to look
just beautiful. Now that my pages are dry. You can't actually see
where I put the adhesive, but it's all over there, and I did it around
the circles as well. It's quite fascinating
the way it goes completely transparent
once it's dry. I'm pretty excited because
now we get to the fun part. We get to put this
beautiful foil on it. I know it's going
to look amazing. Let's put it over
this section first. Put it on the page. Give it a rub and as
soon as you touch it, you start to see where
you put the adhesive. I really like that thin
nozzle applicator. I think that's really fun. You could do a lot with that, a lot of drawing or writing. You could put text on it, you can put all sorts
of different shapes. It's entirely
fascinating, really really easy to do the
gold looks amazing. T Oh, yeah, baby, look at that. That looks beautiful. I love it. Now I'm just going to use up different sections of
this same piece of foil on these areas
where my adhesive is. Rn over it all, and
then I'll give you a close up and show you
how incredible it looks. I'm pretty happy with my pages. I'll use up some from
yesterday's piece. There's still some sections
on there that I can use up. Give it a good rap. Okay. Look how
pretty that looks. If you catch it in the light, you can see how beautiful. The gold is on that page. Yes, I love it, and I'm really enjoying that
fine line of the applicator, creating those marks in
there, looks fabulous. I'm just going to put
foil on the other side, give it a rub and my
pages will be done. Cara, love it. Looking beautiful. It finishes off my
pages really nicely. Yes, it does. Yeah. I hope you enjoyed this
class. I know I did. It really stretched me doing the beyond reality
imagined worlds. Some of these
themes I definitely haven't approached
before in my college, so we get to learn together
along the journey. I think that's what I'm really loving about creating
the classes, stretching myself,
my creativity, and encouraging you
to stretch yours. It's always good to do things that you
haven't done before. Really happy with these
lessons and these pages, and I can't wait to get
stuck into the next class. A.
13. Let's Celebrate: Thank you for joining me
on this epic adventure. I really hope you've enjoyed this class as much as I have. I've absolutely loved
creating imagined worlds, and I can honestly say that I have never created with
these prompts before. I absolutely loved
the steam punk theme, and I was so inspired
by the surrealist. I mean, have you ever put such an imagined artwork
together like that before? I definitely haven't. It was so much fun.
It was so stretching. But it was really satisfying to create something that
I've never done before. I absolutely loved printing
with the fresh flowers, but I think my all time
favorite technique that we did in this
class was the gold foil. Absolutely. So beautiful and so easy. That's definitely
coming out again. We're going to keep that one in the material list
for the next class. I would love to see
what you've created and what imagined worlds
you've invented. So don't forget to show me photos of your fabulous
art journal pages. I'd love to see your collages, how you responded
to the prompts, and how weird you
allowed yourself to be. And remember, you can join my Facebook group created
Adventures Making Art. Show me all your photos and
beautiful artworks in there. There's so many
people that would really enjoy seeing
what you're creating. Don't forget to check
your class notes, and the material list
is quite extensive, but you don't have to use
all of the products or the mediums or even the
colors that I've chosen. Pull out what you have
from your art supplies and use the absolutely
favorite colors that you like to work with. But if you want to know exactly the products,
have a look. It's all there in your notes, and don't forget if
you're using any of the recommendations for papers or prints or stencils or stamps, you'll find discount codes. You've got my email if you
want to contact me directly, and you can find out
more information on my website, frol.com. Now, I hope you're
keeping all of your prints and
papers and textures, especially all those
fabulous trinkets that you may have acquired. Okay. I know that I ended up
buying quite a few. So I'm putting them
all in a box for just for this particular
class series, and they'll be there for the next one because
you don't know what you might need in the next
lesson or the one after that. There's so many possibilities, and now you've got
the art supply, each of the lessons and classes compounds on
with the next one. So Make sure you're keeping
everything for another day. Next, we're on to class six exploring mixed media
techniques in collage. Oh, yes. This one's going to
get a little experimental, but it will be a
whole lot of fun. You'll learn some
new techniques, and I can't wait to get started. So I'll see you again
in the next class, and don't forget to
show me your photos.
Froyle Davies, Mixed Media Artist
