heART makes: dream catcher

Monday, May 7, 2018

Life Documented 2018

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Hi, lovely creative friends!

It's been a long time since my last post here on the blog. Life is busy and time flies!!
But here I am again for a post for Life Documented 2018.
I?m much honored to post again for such an amazing and creative group in this month, May! my month! Yes my birthday month (ohhh and this year I will turn 40!!!! J). In this beautiful month the theme couldn’t be more in line with me!! Mandalas!! You might know that I love drawing mandalas, so this one was easy!! I also love to draw dream catchers, and since I started drawing mandalas I started a fusion with mandalas and dream catchers, which I love to draw.
So, I thought on a mandala dream catcher as a start point for this week prompt.

Theme: Mandalas

Prompt: colorful and messy backgrounds

Technique: create a colorful background and draw a mandala dream catcher

Quote: Let your Art express your heart and soul (it was on my mind, and I love it!!)

I love to start with a very colorful and messy background. So I went to my scrap box and pick up some colorful papers, edges of parts painted, or stamped or with stencils. Anything. The idea is to get messy and colorful. After I glued the scraps randomly on the page I added, on the white parts, more stamps, and after that some marks with stamps.

(TIP: if you decide to work on a separated paper to add to your planner latter you might want to put some masking tape on the edges to make a frame. In this case I put underneath the page a plastic bag that I save from cereals and I adhere the paper and the masking tape to the plastic. This is because after you work on the page you will get a gorgeous washi tape to play with on your planner! I just love this technique)

After playing with the background I add some white acrylic paint just to blend a little the colors and the page. And then I draw the mandala dream catcher.

Draw the mandala dream catcher is absolutely simple. I draw half of one mandala ( TIP: continue drawing along the edges into the masking tape, for an even more gorgeous and unique washy tape)

In the bottom of the mandala I draw the feathers od the dream catcher.

I painted the feathers with white and colors, added a little more marks to the background and in the end I stamped Heart and soul, inspired on the quote that was in my mind when I was making this drawing.

TIP:

After you finish your page, take off the masking tape. Probably you will have a stunning unique washi tape, and you will get surprised. Take a look at some of mines that I use to embellish my unplanner, or artjournal.

Well my friends hopping that you liked my ideas for this week and willowing to see what you create.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

mixed media explorations

Quem segue o meu trabalho sabe o quanto eu gosto de usar materiais que vou guardando do nosso dia a dia. Os sacos de papel onde vem o pão da padaria são dos meus favoritos. Guardo-os todos e adoro experimentar mix media com eles. São mesmo muito versáteis. Desde tinta acrílica, colagens, cosê-los na máquina de costura, aguentam tudo!!

Esta semana andei a explorar várias técnicas de mix media nestes sacos. Hoje deixo-vos o resultado da experiência desta semana. :)

Those who follow my work know how much I love to save daily use materials specially paper! . The bread paper bags are my favorites. I keep them all and love experimenting mix media with them. They are really versatile. Since acrylic paint, collages, sew them with the sewing machine, they hold up all techniques!!

This week I've been exploring mix media techniques in these bags. Today I share with you the result of this week experiences!!! :)