I've also been so, so behind on my journal entries even if I have been trying to create something each day. Although today I really could not help it and would putter around to my big table and sit for 10 minutes or so to dab some paint here and there. I finally succumbed after dinner and sat down at my work table, keeping my son Enzo company while he was doing a school project. I finally finished this "tag" project I had been working on sporadically for about 3 or 4 days now.
This project was inspired by a tutorial by Alisa Burke my newest mentor, even if she doesn't know it :) She had this idea to re-use those clothes tags and paint over them and use as gift tags. What a cool idea. Great thing I have this penchant for keeping tags I like (always thinking I may have a use for them later) Ha! You see, I just knew I'd need them (LOL!)
Except I created little miniature canvases out of them.
This is where I started:
I still don't have gesso or gel mediums so I just brushed it with white acrylic paint
and did some stenciling.
Next I just added some patterned paper I cut up from here and there.
Drew my images
Added some more paint and waited 2 more days till I could figure out where
I was going with this (hahaha!)
Could not resist just working on it today and just added more details, paint, collage...still something missing...
More details...That's better.
Pasted some scrapbook paper I had lying around at the back of the tag.
And here they are up close:
Miniature art, ready to hang on my wall, or maybe on my Christmas tree, my door, as a bookmark...I think I'll scan it and print it out on nice thick paper so I can give it away as bookmarks.
Fun project. Definitely!
