Alice Hendon, Artangleology

Let's make a simple zombie tag together. Simple? Yes. This took maybe ten minutes because I had all the materials located and together before I began.  Whether you  participate in Halloween activities or not - this simple tag can be made for any holiday or family celebration you wish to . . . uh, celebrate! Let me walk you through. So, this is me pulling all my materials together. Actually, Sarah in Creative Crafty Friends did much of the work by sending me one of the monthly project kits. She sent me the craft tag, the paper scraps you see and the stamped image of the zombie girl.  I began with some Dyestress ink pads - graphite , mustard seed and ripe persimmon . With the blending tool you see I scrubbed and scraped some of all three colors across the front of the tag. I also used my Copic markers to color my zombie person. I love her! So creepy! Hahaha!  This is my completed surface after using the three ink pads. Any ink pad you have will work just fine. Do I...

  Hahnemühle has a new watercolor book available and you are going to need to get one for yourself! Or maybe two! I love mine and have had a fun time trying out various art methods in it. Not just watercolor. Let me show you.  The 95 lb. pages are roughly 5.5" square and come in either beige or grey shades. The book I have is beige. I did not know how the color of the page would affect my art, so I just got right to work. I could figure it out along the way. The pages lay flat when the hard cover book is open. There are sixty pages total, that comes out to 120 work surfaces. The page surface is smooth with very little texture. I began with some painter's tape along the edges on one page. After wetting down the entire page I added Schmincke watercolors in bands of color, then let them sit to dry.  After spritzing some water on the dry page, I brought in some extra lines of color with my Schminckes.  Remember I said I didn't know how the beige paper would affect my ...

  Did you know every year on October 1st we celebrate World Postcard Day? Yep! We do! It happens each year since 2019 when we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the postcard. Need to shoot off a message to Grandma but too tired to write a full blown letter? Maybe time is an issue? Perhaps you want to pen a short message to brighten someone's day? The postcard can be your go-to for birthdays, holidays, retirements, catching up or to just say "hello, I was thinking about you." And where do you start? Well, you really should start with Hahnemühle . I did. I grabbed a tin of their cold pressed watercolor postcards and a pad of their Nostalgie sketch postcards and got started.  Since the tin postcards are advertised as 'watercolor' I began by pulling out my set of Schmincke watercolors and painted a nice wet on wet background. I love the bright colors you get with Schmincke and this paper loved the color. I was able to stick with just one layer of paint for this par...