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Laughter – Mixed Media Art Journal Page

22 February 21

To see this art journal page created in a time-lapse video go to my Youtube channel, Selena Stevens Art, and watch the video.

This art journal page was inspired by the Off the Rails Scrapbooking monthly moodboard. The moodboard indicated a funny focal point, instead I concentrated on the end product of funny … Laughter.

Currently I am working in a handmade journal from Woolworths paper bags which I painted with left over acrylic paint and cleaned stencils that were covered in gel medium to begin to create interesting backgrounds. The image I am using of a woman laughing was found in a Frankie magazine. The edges were ripped to help the page “dissolve” into the background and not to be able to see as easily where the edges are. I glued the image with Derivan Matt Medium underneath as well as a thin layer over the top to improve the surface for when I am painting and drawing on it.

Following the shading, the darker areas, seen on the image, I took a Derwent Inktense pencil in Dark Chocolate and scribbled over the shaded areas.

Instead of activating the pencil with water, I activated with acrylic paint instead. Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint, Tangerine Dream and Titanium White, was used to help blend the pencil and create a dark, mid and light tone on the face, neck and arms. The Titanium White was also used to block in the woman’s singlet.

Next I painted in the background using Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint, Pthalo Turquoise, Dioxazine Purple and Naphthol Crimson. By doing the background prior to finishing the girl and doing her hair, helps to get the image sitting in front of the background.

The women’s hair was filled in with long strokes on the paint brush using Atelier Interactive Acrylic Paint, Burnt Umber and Hollow Tree. To finish this portrait, a few finishing touches were placed with Prismacolour pencils (Dark Brown, Black, Peach and White). The pencil helped to deepen the shadows and outline the features like her eyes and her hair.

To see more of my artwork, go to:

Youtube: Selena Stevens Art

Facebook: Selena Stevens Art

Instagram: selenastevensart

Colour Challenge for Off The Rails Scrapbooking

21 September 19

As a Guest Designer for Off the Rails Scrapbooking I took inspiration from the September 2019 moodboard to inspire an art journal page.

I loved the colour from the above moodboard so decided that I was going to definitely incorporate that. The other part that kept grabbing my attention was the eye. So I put together the colours and the black and white eye and came up with my art journal page. Stay with me while I take you through the steps to create this page.

I began by collecting some bright, colourful, fun pieces to use as collage in the background. I glued them on with Liquitex Gel Medium. This is a great way to use up a lot of those scrap pieces that we all have lying around and we never use.

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Then I chose a few colours from the collage and applied some paint to try to make it a little bit more cohesive. I used Ceramcoats Acrylic Paint in 9 different colours and randomly applied it with a paintbrush. I left this to dry.

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Then I grabbed some of my pens in similar colours to what I had already used and started doodling. I would start doodling on colours with the similar colour to my pen and then let it overlap onto colours next to it.

The last part was creating the face. I used an Inktense pencil, activated it with water and applied a thin layer of gel medium over the top just to make sure that it stayed put for the next few layers. A light skin colour acrylic paint was applied to where the lighter areas would be. I repeated these steps until I was happy. Lastly I used the Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso to add in the white highlights. I love how part of the background peeks through her face.

I hope you enjoyed this and give it a try or look at a moodboard and see how that can inspire your work.

To watch the video on my YouTube channel, Selena Stevens Art, click here.

Til next time

Selena

Elephant Head – New Video

21 September 18

In this weeks video on my youtube channel, Elephant Head, collage, paint and inktense pencil is used.

Art Supplies used:

Couture Creation Scrapbook Paper

Liquitex Matte Gel

Dylusions Acrylic Paint
– Melted Chocolate
– Ground Coffee

Liquitex Airbrush Medium

Derwent Inktense Pencil
– Paynes Grey
– Madder Brown

Colour Blast White Heavy Gesso

I hope you enjoy it.

Selena

Mixed Media Eye – Video

19 August 18

A new video has been uploaded to my Youtube channel, Selena Stevens Art, as a tribute to Patsy, the owner of Paper-Arts who recently passed away. I found out about this sad news about Patsy while working on this page that I was creating using Paper-Arts products.

Art Supplies used:

Liquitex Acrylic Ink
– Pthalocyanine Green
– Turquoise Deep
– Pthalocyanine Blue
– Iridescent Bright Gold
– Carbon Black

Tombow Marker
– 373
– 476
– 245

Faber-Castell Pitt Pen
– Light flesh 132
– Medium Flesh 131
– Light Pthalo Green 162
– Pthalo Blue 110

Paper-Arts 12 x 12 inch scrapbook paper
– Friendship 3

Derwent Inktense Pencil
– Deep Indigo 1100

Posca Paint Pen PC.5M
– Black
– White

Prismacolour Coloured Pencils
– Black
– White
– Olive Green
– Violet Blue
– Mediterranean Blue
– Powder Blue
– Chartreuse
– Spring Green

I hope you enjoy it

Selena

Live Amongst Flowers – Video

12 August 18

I have released a new video, Live Amongst Flowers, of an art journal page.

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It includes collage, stencil, drawing and a little bit of splatter. I didn’t want to lose the design of these beautiful Paper-Arts papers, so most of the acrylic was wiped off after applying it.

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