Finding my style

I have done 3 pages in my art journal over the last few days. Two art journal books I ordered, creative wildfire and true vision by L.K Ludwig, have arrived and I have been pouring over them. I have tried several new techniques and am trying to find my style at the moment!

These two pages just started off with me doodling faces. I am quite pleased with them. I like using this folksy style of faces because then I don't have to be accurate with the details of the faces as they are very stylised.

I'm really pleased with this page, although the subject may be a little depressing! I used image transfer for the sitting lady and then coloured her in using water soluble crayons. I used some new stamps from Invoke Arts for all the little faces and then drew round them in boxes. The background was acrylic paint which had been scrapped across the page with an old loyalty card which gives a great effect.

TFL
Sami x

Trying new techniques

For this page I tried a new technique...image transfer. I have never done this before but was quite pleased with the results. The face and hands were from a magazine and I used gel medium to transfer the image onto my journal page.

I then coloured it using water soluble crayons and felt pens. The background was acrylic paint, the photo has not picked up the colours very well.

For this page I used a photo of my daughter taken yesterday, sitting on some rocks by a beautiful waterfall. Paige said she looked like a mermaid so I turned her into one!

I printed the photo out onto normal printer paper and then made a mermaids tail with fantasy film. I used a white pen to draw the scales on. The tail is more purplely/pinky than the photo shows. I used collage for the borders.

Thanks for looking

Sami x