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Showing posts with label Texture paste. Show all posts

Friday, 1 July 2022

Creative Artiste #84 JULY Mixed Media Challenge

 A warm welcome to JULY Creative Friends 

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes 

Sharing a random double page selection from my junk diary.


Used envelopes scraped with gesso, bubble wrap stamped and 
texture paste stencilling. Embellished with a large Brown 
water coloured Butterfly (White Admiral) & washi tape strips  
with gouache painted Hydrangea encircled with scribble script. 
 
That's my random mixed media junk diary selection.

The Creative Artiste Design Team hope you can 
join us during the month of JULY and share your 

Creative Hugs 
Tracey xx

Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Just Junk Journaling...

 Hello creative friends, 

Already a week passes into March as I continue recycling packaging and 
using scraps to make pocket sized Junk Journals to create in each month. 

Here's March's JJ covered with rice paper and stamped flowers 
painted in Spring time colours and very simply embellished... 


with a Tim Holtz die cut and watercoloured bird resembling the 
Blue Tit, she sings amid a Spring inspired textured background..


and because time didn't allow me to share last month 
here's a small selection from Februarys Junk Journal...

Paper pockets filled with layered scraps with machine stitched edges. 


Documenting my Son and his Girlfriends engagement announcement 


and some mindful doodling as the door closed on February...


Please be safe creative friends.. 

Hugs Tracey xx

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Monday, 28 December 2020

Art Journal Journey ~ The meaning of.. Curiosity

 Hello Creative Friends

Did you take time out for you this Christmas?? 

This is my penultimate page as Guest Host @ 


I'm sure you've all guessed by now why my website is called 
Hotchpotch Creations, I find it hard to sit still with one 
medium, there's so much to learn, explore and mix together.

As a mixed media artist the importance of experimenting 
with things is vital, it explains what mediums can do with 
surprising results at times and helps me work out how to 
bring the vision I see in my head onto my page. 

Curiosity gives me confidence to create in my own eyes..

 
Starting with a stampendous owl's face he peeps through a torn page 
stained tea water & layers of modeling paste sprinkled with loose tea. 

Smudges of expanding foam heated and scraped using a fork, 
I revisited this page many times before I was happy with it's 
bark like effect. Painted with distress paint and a coating of 
clear gesso a stamperia bark stamp fills in any gaps. 

Making an impression in a piece of wet clay 
using a Tim Holtz red rubber stamp it reads.. 

*Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity* 


Painted and attached to the tree bark page 
I used my finger like a paintbrush smudging green paint 
down the page, replicating tree moss and lichen.


Thank you all so much for joining me and sharing 
your wonderful creative talents @ Art Journal Journey.

Stay safe & ever creative 
Hugs 
Tracey xx

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Thursday, 3 December 2020

AJJ ~ The meaning of ... Art

 Hello everyone, 

As Decembers Guest Host @ Art Journal Journey 
i'm sharing my second journal spread 

I adore every aspect of art it allows me to explore, experiment and express. 
Nothing compares to the feeling of bringing a blank page to life with colour.. 

Collage and texture paste through stencils helps breaks up this surface 
where alcohol inks are dripped, sprayed and teased around the page. 


The stamped and painted brushes represent a small selection of tools 
I use to help me discover, demonstrate and make visual noise on a page. 


and not forgetting those paint tubes like little houses 
that help keep our precious paints all safe and sound.. 


Art it's within me.. like my beating HEART.. 

Stay safe & creative 
Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing today's creativity with: 

Simon says Stamp Monday Challenge ~ Focus on Alcohol Inks