That's right, I really can't draw! Well, yes I can, but it's painful. Painful, as in it'll take me forever to draw a simple shape. Painful as in, I'll get sick of what I'm trying to draw, before I can actually get very far. Painful as in, well you get it. But, I love art journal pages, and especially love to see drawings included on them. So what's a girl to do?!
Templates!!! Yes templates, or stencils, or coloring books, or patterned papers with basic shapes, or whatever you can find that has a line drawing or shape, of what you want to draw. There are tons of FREE templates on the internet, that you can download, and print out, for your personal use. And that's exactly what I did for my page......
The bunny....oh I love that bunny!!! Yep, got him off of Martha Stewart's blog. Her site has a huge section devoted to 'creating', and that's where I found the bunny. But there's plenty more sites for free templates. All you have to do is Google "Your Specific Free Templates", and you'll get tons of hits.
All I did was to print him out on paper, and then trace him onto Prima Cartographer paper. Then I glued him down to my prepped background, and then painted over him. I could have printed him on the Prima paper, but I was afraid that the ink from my printer would run, once I applied wet media to him. I used Neocolor IIs in brown tones, to wash over him. Then I used a Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen in black to outline him, I also added highlights with a White Sharpie.
For the background flowers, I used stamps from Dylusions and Unity, with Inks from Memento (Bamboo Green) and Ranger (Hydrangea). The main flowers......so easy! I had some scraps of patterned papers, that had, well flowers on them. So I fussy cut around them, and glued them down to my page. Then I went over top with the Neocolor IIs and Gelatos. Again, I outlined with the Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen, and highlighted with the Sharpie.
You would never know, that those bright and bold flowers, started life in muted tones of pink and orange! I added more stamping with Prima and my fave Kaisercraft Script stamp, onto my background. This time I used my Stazon Ink in Timber Brown. A few more flowers, random dots around the stamped flowers in more Faber-Castell colors, added a bit of life to the background.
Finally, it was time to add my journaling....another Dylusions stamp. Highlighted with the white Sharpie, and a brown Sharpie.....cause I can' draw straight lines, and went over on to the stamped image!!! LOL And then I added a bit of stenciling with Prima's Lace Doily, and some Golden Molding Paste.
For those of you, who, like me, can't draw, I hope that I've given you hope for your art journal pages. Even if you can't 'draw' you can sure color an image!!!!
Thanks for looking!
Lynne