Alice Hendon, Artangleology

Let's see if I remember how to do this. I am told that chemo brain is a real thing. What I know about chemo brain is I find it hard to get motivated and accomplish anything. Specifically art. Back a little over a month ago I was able to put these journal pages together in a day with some new product. Let me show you how I built these pages.  I began with a few simple supplies. Joggles is carrying a new line of products called 49 and Market . I bought a few things hoping they would get me in the mood to make art. I got a nice cover and some signatures to go inside. The beauty of signatures is you can remove the whole piece from the journal so you can work without all the bulk. When you are finished you just pop it back in. For my background I went with these colors of Amsterdam acrylic paints .  Beginning with the azo yellow lemon, I squeezed just a bit onto my page.  With no real plan I used the brayer to roll color onto my two page spread. Azo orange was the second color rolled

  Should I shade? Should I not shade? Shading your tangle art is something many tanglers would rather not do. They don't know what to shade or how to do it and it is just easier to skip that step.  Since being so sick earlier this year I have really had a hard time getting interested in doing any kind of art. I used to make art all day long - now I rarely feel like it. But one day earlier this week I felt like tangling. For awhile. To draw this piece I traced two 3.5" square tiles onto my paper in pencil. Overlapping at those top middle corners. And I just used tangles I like. From left to right: SOCC, Beauchamp, Z'ghetti, Caracole and Printemps with a bit of Tipple thrown in. When it came time to shade I just wasn't feeling it and pushed the whole piece to one side, feeling a bit defeated. The next day came after some much needed rest and I suddenly felt like shading!  Much better and I added a few highlights here and there. Shading is easy if you think about 'ove

Once again I signed up for iHanna's semi-annual international postcard swap . And once again I used the wonderful  Nostalgie hot pressed postcards from Hahnemühle . The swap called for ten postcards completed in whatever art form we wished. Well, I sent them out in the mail this morning and I can't wait to show them to you! This card started with several layers of a gel printed background. The flower center was a piece of ephemera from Tamara Laporte. A hand drawn and painted flower, a stamp and a couple jewels finished it up in style.  Most of my postcards started with some level of gel printing for the base layer. I especially like the way this background looks and the way it shines through my painted flower. I used the same stencil that I used in the first postcard you saw and made a couple layers in different colors. My favorite part of using gel prints is seeing how they show through my painting.  This background was made with Tombow dual brush pens with my smooshing tech

  That title says it all. What a year! So thankful it is almost over and I can start anew in 2023! In fact - I made this page in my daily journal to celebrate. Hahahaha! Never mind that it's been almost a year since I 'daily journaled'. It's been that bad of a year.  I began by pulling together all the awesome things I wanted to include. I began with a piece of colorful painted paper from Niki Green - I love her work so much! The postcard is a Nostalgie postcard from Hahnemühle that I used to clean brushes on, then added some art. The larger tangled piece of art is from last year. My hands still shake and this kind of art doesn't come easy to me right now. Anyone who knows me well knows Tinkerbell is my favorite character. I liked the strip I cut off a piece of art and kept. I thought it might work well. And chocolates. Cause it's always a good time for chocolate.  I needed Niki's piece of art to adhere well so I lined it with double sided Scor tape . Gre

I have to apologize for not getting the week three tangles to you earlier. Twinchietober is going great at Tangle All Around on Facebook. The October 15th tangle Bridges was designed by Randi Ziegler. A tangleation of Sharps which Randi Jameson introduced in the book Life in Tangles .  My husband had a full hip replacement surgery at the beginning of this week and I have been busy taking care of him, getting him on his feet and he is doing great! On October 16th we worked with Champ , designed by Antje Romers. It is a great fill pattern and it can be used as a fragment. Let me give you a few points in case you are new to Twinchietober. A twinchie is a 2" square of paper that we draw our designs on. And since we are doing this in October I came up with the name Twinchietober.  All the patterns - or tangles - we are using were designed by members of my FB group Tangle All Around . The October 17th pattern is Connect , designed by Shweta Bansal.  We are drawing the tangles on our t

Creative Crafty Friends on Facebook is doing a collage swap I thought I could easily do since I haven't crafted in months. Literally months. I am trying to get my mojo back as it were. This particular swap called for two collaged wonky paper dolls that include the use of magazine pictures. I began by pulling items from my collage pile that I thought could be useful.  I never buy magazines. The closest thing I have to magazines is when the AARP monthly shows up. Hahahaha! I cut a few heads out awhile back and threw them into my collage drawer. I figured I could use them for this swap. The other items are bits I have from Art By Marlene and Dina Wakley's Collage Collective. The next step was to run all the pieces through my sticker machine . Those magazine photos are really thin. You can see the reverse side right through the paper. Ugh.  I began by cutting out all the pieces. Here is how I envisioned my first wonky doll to turn out. I wasn't entirely sure about those glass