My Artful Journey

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My artful journey has been taking a stroll lately, ala Tracy Weinzapfel Studios. And I love it! I am finally learning a bit about watercoloring and putting a drawing together. I am having the most fun! Tracy has a great website and she does a yearly membership for Your Artful Journey. You can check it out by clicking here. Let me show you one of the fun projects we did this past week. 



On Wednesday nights, Tracy does a live class on Facebook. Lots of people paint along with her. I usually take notes and watch, then try the process out the next day. This week was no different. As many other projects, I started mine with a gelli print. This one was made awhile back on a piece of Bristol from Hahnemühle. I used a couple rose stencils and didn't really like the way it turned out. So I shoved it off to the side. 











A couple weeks ago I brought it back out and used it to clean up a couple stencils. Still not loving it, I put this piece in a basket of rejects. When it was time to work on the class project I pulled that basket of rejects out and chose this one. I thought it might be perfect for what I had in mind. 















The year long session with Tracy is a paid class. As such, I can not go into detail about how we put these drawings together. I can tell you this is the pen drawing I started with. I like doubling those lines. It is something I had already started doing with a lot of drawings because it can cover a multitude of boo-boos. And just watch how that ugly gelli print is starting to melt away into the background. 












At this point I had all my lines where I liked them and felt ready to start painting. 





























I picked up my #8 round Black Tulip brush from ZenART Supplies and my watercolor tin of Schmincke and Daniel Smith colors and painted up my piece of art. Let me tell you this is a great brush for working with watercolors!





















White highlights were made with a white craft paint from Walmart and a Sharpie paint pen. All my products worked so well together. From the Hahnemühle paper to the Gelli Arts printing plate to the ZenART's paintbrushes - they all combined Tracy's lesson into this fun, textured piece of art. I think the thing I like most about it is the texture. Thanks to that gel print I started with. On to the next lesson!

Hahnemühle Bristol can be purchased here.

Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plates can be purchased here. 

ZenARTs Black Tulip paint brushes can be purchased here. 

Tracy Weinzapfel's Your Artful Journey can be visited here. 

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Comments

  1. Jan Brandt, CZTMarch 15, 2021 at 11:22 PM

    What an amazing transformation, Alice!! I have to agree, your starting point was ...uh ... not very attractive. :D But your finished painting is just gorgeous! I LOVE seeing your starts and finishes as well as all the steps in between (when you're able) because I am continually learning from you how to take a project from bad to beautiful! (Sharla Hicks taught me, "Don't stop at ugly!) Was your original piece (the gelly print) done with acrylics? And your top layer(s) with watercolor? If so, I hadn't thought about mixing those 2 media ... but, they're both water-soluable so why not?!

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    1. AliceMarch 16, 2021 at 9:32 AM

      yes, acrylic for the gel print and watercolor for the flower. I try not to toss out too many of the ugly bits in case I can salvage them later. and sometimes they turn out like this <3

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  2. Sandra StraitMarch 16, 2021 at 11:09 AM

    Your reject art made a perfect underpainting! The finished piece is stunning!

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    1. AliceMarch 16, 2021 at 12:18 PM

      Underpainting. I couldn’t think of the word 🤗❤️

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  3. Evy BrowningMarch 20, 2021 at 11:15 AM

    I love these florals - their boldness really suits your style & the white accents really draw the eye. Interesting how the red areas from the original gelli print all got absorbed into the orange of the flower petals so that all you're aware of is that sense of texture.

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    1. AliceMarch 20, 2021 at 11:20 AM

      yes, I agree, I didn't know what to expect going in. I think that's half the fun for me. seeing how it turns out.

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