Tape, Human Border and Hooper

 Exercise.
Inspirational / technique cards are from Wide Open by Randi Feuderhelm-Watts and are the bases for the a few of the ideas of this journal page.

No I am not apologizing for the quality of these pictures, use what you got and don't be sorry for it!

 

To start out, lets get rid of our blank canvas. A lot of creative journalist will tell you that one of the easiest ways to add color to a page is a spray. You can buy them at the store or make them yourself. I used my homemade black spray, which is acrylic black paint mixed with water. After it dried, I added some contrast with diluted white acrylic paint dabbed onto the page and then the good ol' straw blowing technique.

So our first card for technique "Tape". Although the cards focus is more on using text with your tape the idea of putting some black electrical tape on my page sounded like a fabulous idea. So I used it to create a boarder as well as add some weight to the left side of the spread.

"The Human Border" card, is the idea of using an image, be it from a magazine or catalog (junk mail or putting Victoria Secret to good use) of a person with clearly defined limbs (that's what's going to make this fun and give your creation form.) Now that you have your image cut out in the form of an outline it's time to place them on the canvas.

After I had my cut out of a sassy model from a magazine I put a little piece of weak tape on the back so that she wouldn't move in the next step and when I took her off the piece she wouldn't take paint and paper with her.

Now the fun part, dabbing acrylic paint with a sponge all around your new stencil. There is always something so fun about defacing things that in society are thought to be so beautiful.. anyways. After you paint dries remove your cutout.

Using masking / painters tape also sounds like a wonderful idea, I've been meaning to play with the idea of creating my own colorful tape to add to pieces, so using a red acrylic paint on blue masking tape I create my own colorful tape to add.

Now onto the "Hooper" card. A pretty depressing card with a sad story. For whatever reason the author of these cards has a thing for crazy people. But story of the card is about a woman named Annie Hooper, while the idea of the card is to use repetition in a piece.

It has this exercise,
"Stand over your journal and drop several identical images, gluing them where they land."
This can be an even more entertaining experience if you are in the currant of an air conditioner. (That was being sarcastic.)

The repetition images came from some business cards I ordered years ago and so they have a lot of out dated information. Glad I was able to find a new use for them.

I may add more to this page if the mood so strikes me but for now we'll call this complete. As some famous artist once said, "Nothing is ever finished, only given up on"... well something along those lines. Until next time.

Laters.