keystrokes & kaleidoscopes: Kimberly Baxter Packwood

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Layering Texture in your Journal with USArtQuest & StencilGirl

It has been a weird for weeks for me as my oldest one has flown the nest...off to college. So many thoughts have been swirling while I have been painting. Although my strong suit is painting canvases, when I grow introspective I tend to pull out the journal and 'art' my feelings on to the pages.

Today, I used the beautiful paints from USArtQuest and StencilGirl to help me do just that.

First, I put a layer of the blue and green pigment paint on my page with a palette knife. I love the colors in these paints...they have a little bit of shimmer. Gorgeous colors.

I first used the Heart Flower stencil by Teri Stegmiller on a piece of black paper but I quickly changed my mind and decided to use the beautiful cream paper. These papers are beautiful and offer instant texture (which if you know me, I love me some texture!!)

Here is the heart in cream/rose flower paper. I kept the shape very organic and not precise.

Next, I used some old music sheet paper and Kimberly Baxter Packwood's Perched Bird stencil to trace out a bird.

I gave each of the paper elements some paint for color and glued them onto my page.

So at this point, I had the basic bones of my page. After I had the elements glued down and they were dry, I kept adding paint with palette knife to give the page some pop and I added a quote. The final results was this: