Florence Turnour's Blog

OK, so it is already Day 5, but I had so much work to do. I'm taking a break from it to try some more of the techniques in Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 102 class. Day 2 focussed on stencils, one of my favorite tools. I like cutting my own stencils from transparency paper, which is slick and easy to sponge through, and thin enough to stamp through. This time, however, I used a stencil from Crafter'sWorkshop. I made two samplers, and pasted them to the two sides of this middle sized butterfly. I was inspired by Tim's choice of blue and brown, but decided that I was in a green mood, and chose Distress Ink in Evergreen Bough and Vintage Photo instead. I like the speckled appearance made from little specks of clear embossing powder. Here's a close-up. Here's the start of my butterfly mobile project , including a butterfly made using Distress Paint as a resist, and here is a butterfly made using Distress Paint to create a faux patina look. Maybe there...

I am taking Tim Holtz's on-line " Creative Chemistry 102 " class this week. I didn't get to even start watching the videos until my kids went to bed, so I didn't have a lot of time to play with the ideas. It's the middle of the night now, so I'm going to show off my butterfly and not write a word about it.  (OK, a few words: Tim Holtz uses tags for his samplers. I use butterflies. Here is the start of my butterfly project .) I do enjoy these paints and inks! Great stuff! Thanks for looking.

Frog III by Florence Turnour This frog is the same size as the first  Twinkling H2O frog . The paper is 6x8 inches. I reduced the  second frog  by 50%.  I am thinking I want to work small so I can trade ATCs with someone someday. What I learned from the last two frogs is that I have to be more careful with my backgrounds. In this painting I used my brayer to add a layer of ink and a layer of distress paint, which show through the subsequent layer of gesso only slightly. I wrapped the brayer with a layer of gauze when I rolled on the gesso adding texture to my paper. Finally, I painted the leaves with Twinkling H2Os. I had hoped for more contrast between the larger leaves and the background leaves but I don't have enough colors of paint. Yet. I cut the pieces of the frog from paper inked with Distress, and glued them to my background as a collage. Every leg and arm segment is a eparate piece of paper! To finish, I traced the leaves in black and the b...