Today, I thought to whip that puppy out and do my favorite art making thang....
which is to locate "found images" within the background. Do you see what I see?
I begin with penciling in the shapes - my favorite being the Stabilo Black or White and Derwent Inktense water soluble pencils.
Soon, water soluble oil pastels or more acrylic paints are added and voila . . .
figures I could never have planned pop out!
Here's another one done today in my smaller art journal.
It's always such a surprise to find what's lurking in the backgrounds. Fantastical, otherworldly creatures appear.
Don't you think this must be good for the brain? Surely it's creating a new neural pathway or two.
I think it's teaching me to find new ways of looking at things, a new way of seeing.
7 comments:
That is crazy!!! My fav is the first one when you first started transforming it, but enjoyed seeing it all. Wow!
beautiful beautiful beautiful - it is really letting the creative spirit work it's magic doing this! i love the results... makes a few neural pathways in my heart too!
mmmmm.....neural pathways in your heart....swoon
Amazing. I love that you let your imagination just open up and create freely. Beautiful work.
Tracie, this is amazing to see! I loved the first one immediately and then fell in love with all the stages of transformation. I definitely have to try this. Incredibly cool!
I LOVE creating this way too. It's amazing what's hiding in random paint or pencil marks once you learn to see it and coax it out of its hiding place. I love both of these, but the first one is also my fave. :)
this is so cool!
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