Portret in een prentenboek

Een portret gemaakt in een prentenboek. Het was echt de bedoeling dat ze ge:irriteerd zou kijken, maar pas naderhand zag ik dat ze nu heel boos lijkt te kijken naar dat lieve meisje op de andere pagina haha! Zij stond in het prentenboek en is niet door mij weg gegessoed.

Ruined and saved spread, and a neglected blog......

Since these days I show all my artwork via Facebook, I must admit I have totally neglected my blog. So sorry, I will probably get no comments at all since nobody is watching anymore.....
Anyhow, made this spread and hated it! Not my colours, and I found it looked rather messy. Well, that is me, Messy Frea LOL!!
So I decided to take out my Jane Davenport book, and practice drawing a face onto my ugly spread, and 'lo and behold', I actually like it now.....

The background is collaged, and I used inksprays en stencils, and then moved on to acrylic paints. I used some cut out heart masks from leftover paper.

The face was done with acrylic paint. I love the way her eyes turned out. You can see the edges of the colleged paper here and there, but I really don't mind that. I think she looks a little sad (as do all Jane's faces), but she also looks really sweet. Like a lovable person.

Then I stamped my message, which is good advice, and I should take it to heart myself....

Hope anyone is still watching, otherwise this would be a wasted effort. Have a great Wednesday you all!
Hugs Frea

I drew a face.....

On the Internet I saw this wonderfull idea where you draw a face over a collaged background with old book papers and newspaper scraps. I loved the result so much that I wanted to make one myself, but for some reason other things kept coming in between.
But then I saw this beautiful photograph on Pinterest and decided I wanted to draw her, so here she is.

I drew her contours and facial features with a regular pencil first, and then I used pastel pencils to shade her and draw her hair. The white of the eyes was made with a white Posca pen en I gave lips, nose, and chin highlights with some white acrylic paint.
I do hope you like her. I was pretty pleased with the endresult.

Inspired by France Papillon

After a week of bed with a terrine col I finale manager to do Some crafting. The background on this spread was made after France's last video on You Tube. Love the way mine turned out. However, the spread looks quite different because  I used Some Finnabair stamps. Hope you like it.

Dina Wakly inspired

This week I am showing you a Dina Wakly inspired face. The background is also typically Dina's style.

I painted the face with acrylic paint and drew with the Stabilo All pencil, just like she does. I must admit that I drew the face with a regular pencil first and used the Stabilo afterwards, because I am having trouble with the black smudges this pencil gives when it touches fluids. Dina doesn't mind, and I must admit that on her faces it seems to fit, but it just doesn't fit my style. I do like the sketchy effect though that it gives as opposed to working with a marker.

That heart stamp in the left corner is my new Limor Webber stamp and I love it!!

 Hope you like this weeks' page. Have a great week, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://welove2create.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/challenge-12-anything-mixed.html
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/new-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/challenge-46.html

Flowerfaces, inspired by a video of Shawn Petite

This spread was inspired by a video on You Tube by Shawn Petite. If you don't know her I strongly advise you to check her out, she makes wonderfull art.
So the background was made the way she did in this particular video.

This is how I started; I glued bookpages from an old book down and from an old leaflet about babycare. I wanted to keep some of the pictures showing through, but I'm afraid that plan fell apart.

I then scraped some gesso on with a palette knife and after drying did the same with some greens and blues. I drew out the stems and leaves with a pencil and stamped the flowers. They were coloured in with Inktense pencils. Along the bottom I stamped with an Indigo Blu stamp for some shrubbery.

I then made two circles, one the same size of the smaller and one of the larger circle stamp. Inside I painted mixed media faces with acrylic paint. The petals were cut out of a gelli plate print with a Magnolia flower die and glued on. Shading was done with a brown Pitt pen.

I stamped some gesso with bubble wrap here and there, and stamped the sentiment with a typewriter stamp set. The wavy bit was done with Archival ink and a stencil.

Hope you like my spread. I thank Shawn for her inspiration! Love her videos! Have a nice day you all, hugs Frea

Little witch in my first Moleskin journal.

Hello my lovelies, it's been a while, but I'm back! I have spent two weeks in a very rainy Portugal in May, and what do you do when it's pouring outside? Right, you craft! I had bought myself my very first Moleskin journal and I love it! Since we were flying I had very limited space for crafting stuff, and it was so surprising to find what you can do with limited resources. So I made this little witch. I had seen a picture on Pinterest that inspired me. After gessoing my page I drew everything out in pencil and then coloured it all in with Inktense pencils.Love the vibrancy of the colours.

The little face was done with acrylic paints and Neocolor II crayons. Love those too!

You can still see the stamped background here and there, really like that layered effect.
After drying I drew all the lines again with a black Posca pen, the one with the fine nib. I really like how she turned out, especially taking in mind that the face is pretty small. It measures about an inch in hight from the chin to the rim of the hat. After drying I doodled a little here and there and made some circles with a bottle cap from my deodorant.

The cobweb and spider where just drawn on by me at the very end. I felt a with needed either a black cat (which I found too difficult to draw) or a spider, which I can manage LOL!

I hope you enjoyed my little spread. More to come soon!! Have a great weekend, hugs Frea
Challenges:
https://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/6836/
http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/new-month-new-challenge.html
http://slslinesdigitalstamps.blogspot.ca/2015/05/challenge-9-anything-goes-with-twist-of.html
http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/challenge-39-challenge-winner.html
http://www.throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/