18 March 2011

Stampotique SDC26 - Animal Insect or Bird



Serendipity came calling with a Stampotique challenge to use an animal, insect or bird and week and UKS Week 11 Art Journal where we were to list five things that scared  us, stamp with paint and use a scary colour for your background. This was great fun to do and I was even brave enough to sketch a few items onto the page.
I used yellow Dylusions paint as background as although I like the colour to look at it is one I would never wear or decorate with. I stamped the TH crow from Haunted Mansions with black paint. I was not sure what to do so ended up putting black paint on a piece of cloth and dabbing this on the stamp. It gives a very rough and ready finish. 
Next I wanted to suggest open wardrobe doors - I have this fear left over from childhood about a thing that will come out at night if the doors are left open. I still have to make sure they are closed now. As I was thinking about being in bed at time I sketched a bed and used Stampotique's Olivia - head only to place in bed. 
I began to paint in blocks the main colours using clashing orange and pink to add to the scariness of the colour. I tried stamping a cat using a freebie stamp and it was just a blob so stamped it again on a piece of painty scrap and added that. I began to write and draw my other fears and freehand (very brave) painted the I'm scared of letters. I then sprayed with dylusions fuscia, burnt orange and pomegrante, masking Olivia's head between layers. I got my trusty black and white pens and added more detail
The crow had to have an eye in mouth as that is part of my fear of crows. If they peck out lamb's eyes...

Snakes... enough said




16 comments:

  1. Fabulous artwork Sally! Have a great weekend! x

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  2. Freaky!!! I was ok until you mentioned crows pecking sheeps eyes out!!
    It's a great page and what luck having 2 challenges that worked together. Thanks for joining us at Stampotique.

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  3. Love this page! I am scared of open wardrobe doors too and open a crack blinds just in case someone can peek out/in! I particularly love the colours!

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  4. What a fab page. Love what you did. Thanks for sharing and have a great day. Angela

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  5. So beautiful and very original! Thanks for joining the Stampotique designer's challenge

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  6. What a fabulous and funny page! Thanks for joining us at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  7. Brilliant page, lot's of hand drawn stuff too......love it !!

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  8. am with you on the wardrobes.. mine had a big fierce lion in it!! What a fab journal page .. thanks for joining us at the Stampotique Designers Challenge

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  9. wow this is such a scary page. It all works so well together. And the scary Stampotique Olivia in the bed - great!

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  10. Great blog you have here:) I love looking at art journaling but it's beyond me :(
    Thanks for stopping by
    Von x

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  11. Fab page - I never used to like open wardrobes - it was all the shadows there at night. Love the stamping and colours and the way you have shown how the page was built :)

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  12. very interesting piece with so much detail. Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's challenge.

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  13. How cool, that's a fantastic page.

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  14. Brilliant page as usual. I was alright until I read at the bottom about crows eating eyes and snakes. Thanks for putting those ideas in my head! LOL.
    Regards Florence.

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  15. Great journal page :) Well done for journaling your fears!
    Thanks for joining us at Stampotique Designer's Challenge.

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  16. Wonderful! I love how all of the elements of this page have meaning! Thank you for sharing it with us for the Stampotique Designer's Challenge. The winner and the next challenge are announced today!
    Cheers,
    Val :)

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