Kick Start Your Art Day 4

Well, look at me!

Participating and posting for FOUR days in a row!

I am really enjoying this process. I need the creative outlet in this form.

It is working for me.

Today's prompt is

GROWTH.

Now I am not much for deep internal reflection.

I tend to revel in my own self deprecation, as opposed to

growing from my own revelations.

And I wasn't feeling the whole organic, literal growing, either.

This was going to take a minute or sixty to figure out.

I do love words. And word play. Hmmm....

After creating the background using those trusty Dylusions inks,

I used a spiderweb stencil to get the creepy vibe going.

Then, I used some rub on letters from my stash to spell out the word

GROWTH. I doodled around each letter to help it stand out against the

background more, and added some "growths" on each letter.

Some have hairs growing out of them, too!

I chose a word that started with each of the letters of the lovely prompt word.

Ghastly, Repugnant, Oddity, ...  

Witchy, Toxic, and Heathen, to round it out.

And then the real fun began. 

I started picking out some of my favorite (and oh, so dusty) rubber stamps.

Mister Stripes from Stampotique, and the Frieze Hippo from Gorey Details. 

Lovely are the Sound from Stampotique.

And lastly, Fofe from Stampotique 

and The Doubtful Guest from Gorey Details.

I just highlighted everyone with a white gel pen, to help them show up 

better on the busy background. 

Ta-dah!

See you again, tomorrow!!

Kick Start Your Art challenge Day 1

I bit the bullet and stopped waffling.

I signed up for the week long Kick Start Your Art challenge at 

Smeared and Smudged.

They provide you with a daily prompt, and then you have 24 hours to

complete a journal page (or two) using the given prompt.

Today is day one of the challenge, and the prompt is

3 Primary Color Drips.

Now as I write this, I realize that maybe my page won't count, as it

has way more than three primary color drips going on.

"We live in a rainbow of chaos." 

- Paul Cezanne

My first dilemma was my innate uneasiness regarding primary colors.

Those three magical colors which breathe life into a multitude of shades and hues,

are probably my least favorite colors by themselves, and especially as a group.

So I let the wonder of water blend the three into a dripping rainbow of sorts.

Which played nicely with my quote from Mister Cezanne.   

I used "Friend" from Stampotique, along with some antlers 

that I heat embossed with red glitter. 

I used various stencils on the Dylusions background, too.  

This is one of my favorite rubber stamps ever! 

His name is "Zombie", and he's from the

Doodle Factory/Starving Artists Stamps.

I sat him atop some washi tape after stamping the date on the bottom.

I framed the entire piece using a black Sakura gel pen, which worked

remarkably well on the Dylusion inks.

Fun prompt. Made me think outside of my usual, dented box.   

Hope it qualifies, but then again, it is MY personal journal page, right?

There is no wrong or right way to do this.

See ya tomorrow!