31 days of Halloween ; day 4

Welcome to day 4 of the 31 days of Halloween

I am trying to learn how to paint (no I don't have classes I just see what happens lol) and for Halloween you just have to have pumpkins.

So I experimented in my Art Journal :-)

Products used: Deco Art Media Gesso White, Matte Medium. Americana Acrylic paint in Snow White, Ultramarine Blue, Antique Mauve, Jack 'o'lantern orange, Lemon Yellow. Deco Art Glass paint marker in black.
Derwent Intense pencils, Crazy cat stamp by Ranger. Moon stamp by Stampinback.  HB pencil .

I made some pic along the way :-) .. I used my small Dylussions Journal and gessoed the pages first. When gesso was dry I used a bby wipe to paint the page Atique Mauve, going from dark on the edges to light in the middle.

Next I drew the shape of the pumpkins using the HB pencil and use gesso to make theinside of the pumpkins white (just paint over the pencil lines, but make sure they stay a bit visable so you can use them as guidance).

Paint the pumpkins Lemon Yellow (yah I know.....they are pumpkins), when yellow is dry add Jack O Lantern Orange :-)  to create shades. (what I did was paint orange over the yellow and removed the orange using a baby wipe on the spots the highlights would be (Is that still painting?? LOL)

Next I used Derwent inktense pencils (make sure the paint is dry) and use orange brown and dark red to draw the lines in the pumpkin. used a waterbrush to fade them a bit and get the color out.

Because I knew what quote I wanted to use I wanted the pumpkins to glow, I used yellow intense pencil to get a glowing effect around the pumpkins.
And used dark grey to get somesort of shade underneath the pumkins.

because of the quote I had to have a black cat, I used a Tim Holtz crazy cat rubber stamp for that, Stamped it on cardstock and coloured it using the Derwent Inktense pencils and cut it out (cut the whiskers of, I solved that by stamping the image directly to the page and glueing the image I cut out over the stamped image, so the whiskers show, see next pic)

Now I needed a moon and I also used a rubber stamp for that,  stamped on cardstock, coloured using inktense pencils and used a circle punch to cut the moon out (my circle punch was a little bit bigger than the stamp but that did not matter).

I wanted the back ground to be a night sky and used blue, yellow and antique mauve to make it look this way. The yellow glow from the moon to the pumpkins is done by Inktense pencils in yellows and orange, use waterbrush  to blend the colours of the pencils and get the colour out.

Fianally I used a piece of paper roughly cut in the shape of the sillhouette of the pumpkins and the cat to cover them and covered the moon with a punched out circle of scrappaper.

Took white paint and added a bit water, dipped a tooth brush in and made the splatter to make it look like you can see the galaxy.  I figuered the glow from the moon would reflect on the ground so used some yellow and antique mauve there too.

Hope you like the result.

But there is also a page from the junk journal off course :-)  see below

this page of the junkjournal is made of Halloween paper (lol I found a little piece in my stash so it had to be in here)  I made a pocket and stamped the word spooky on it, in the pocket is a to do list. underneath the do do list is a stamped skullie

next page has a photo of a skeleton and some spideys on it

and here are the pages inside the book

I will enter the following challenges

http://dreamindarkness.blogspot.nl/2016/10/october-1-challenge-post-31-days-of.html

31 days of Halloween ; day 1

Welcome to day 1 of the 31 days of Halloween, blogroll is in the side bar :-)

Thought it was about time to play again in the 31 days, I know it is insane to do this but hey.....we all know I am crazy LOL

To be honest I started in august to prepare all my 31 days post because otherwise there is no chance I can make something everyday and write a blogpost, so I made a junk journal and will show you the pages through the whole 31 days madness.  I will add some extra projects, I can;t promise there will be 2 projects everyday but I will try to get as much in as possible (gotta go to work and sleep in between all scary fun too you know)

So for day one we start with the cover (duh!)

Deco Art Media fluid Acrylics in :Pyrole Red,   Deco Art Media Antiquing cream in Carbon Black. , Deco Art Media  Crakle paint,, Deco Art Media Gesso, Deco Art Media  Crackle Glaze, and  Matte Varnish Deco Art Americana Weathered wood, . Deco Art Metallic Lustres in Silver Spark, Black shimmer

The cover is made of cardboard, I gessoed it and painted it red, gave it a layere of Wheathere wood and when that was dry a layer of crackle paint, This makes the giant cracks . Next put a layer of matte varnish on and use Crackle glaze to get the small crackles, rub antiquing cream into the small cracks and remove some of it till you like the result, Protect with matte varnish.

Next I used the Skull stamp from the Morte set by Rick St.dennis, it's no longer available in rubber but there are lots of digi skulls available here,  The other stamps are clear stamps by house of three,

I used metallic lustres on the spider webborder (Martha stewart punch) and the metal book corners.

Tomorrow the back side of this cover :-)


And here is my second project, fridge magnets made of dominoes, it's easy to do, the hardest part is to get the stamps on in a good way without smudging.

What you need is some dominoes, these are plastic and I used Alcohol Ink to give them some colour. Next use Stazon in jet black to stamp the images and protect the stamping when dry with 2 layers of Deco Art Triple Thick Gloss Glaze, it gives them a great shine and creat depth. Glue some magnets on and you have some nice Halloween decoration for your fridge (or memoboard)

see ya tomorrow for day 2, have fun hopping and thanks for your comments, I love to read them :-)