tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15832693837223766052024-03-12T22:18:12.823-04:00Art......with HeartCeciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comBlogger1012125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-74729217639549051742020-08-31T13:53:00.019-04:002020-08-31T13:53:00.469-04:00SEPT.1 -- TOMORROW -- MY BLOG WILL HAVE A NEW ADDRESS<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Today is the last day I will use this blog. My new blog address is<br /><br /><a href="http://ceciliaswatton.blogspot.com">ceciliaswatton.blogspot.com<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></a> <br /><br />See you there tomorrow!</span></b></form>Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-40734668066516065022020-08-30T00:00:00.025-04:002020-08-30T00:00:00.172-04:00Artists Using Stencils!<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><u><b>NOTICE: Starting September 1, my new blog address will be:</b></u><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="http://ceciliaswatton.blogspot.com/">http://ceciliaswatton.blogspot.com/</a><br /></b></span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Artist Linda Webr made today's first print, using watercolor and one-third of my 6" x 6" stencil <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-quilted-flower-cecilia-swatton-p/s237.htm">Quilted Flower Garden </a></i>...<br /></span></b><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgs8TkPZL2GaW5ofvmPAiZSowg1C1o9cfBIkU6sMysDtfgCSACNVNRIa1zZ951eVMG4gsl7IKDTBO89-r9k18skg3XBKq_rq3rfQda4xe63tjqogt7mirRPu4RkR6U-zCnr_NqfhOov4N/s534/Linda+Webr+quilted+flower+garden+watercolors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="236" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgs8TkPZL2GaW5ofvmPAiZSowg1C1o9cfBIkU6sMysDtfgCSACNVNRIa1zZ951eVMG4gsl7IKDTBO89-r9k18skg3XBKq_rq3rfQda4xe63tjqogt7mirRPu4RkR6U-zCnr_NqfhOov4N/w141-h320/Linda+Webr+quilted+flower+garden+watercolors.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>... and I really admire the way she used such a "loose" medium to get </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>this print -- it has the widely popular "painterly" look yet at the same time retains much of the stencil's original design. This achievement may sound easy, but not everyone (myself included) can work this well with watercolor and stencils. </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>If it sounds out-of-the-box thinking to use watercolor with stencils, just wait! Another artist -- Melissa Ohlman-Roberge -- has used my 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a></i> to make this print ....</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW5IQ2L9z9JYDfq6MpPr5gV5g0Wy2dPoQdhcpmzX9fhOkQzOoRezEKG8RLuD_xrRATrSKGuHA4iuOdron-4i0s1THZ4QjFY86xRotF6cOL7H-BELKEIuMcVbx6ZKJJAoqSVBVQQQSPf_EZ/s960/clustered+leaves+print+made+with+bean+soak+water+by+Melissa+Ohlman-Roberge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="782" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW5IQ2L9z9JYDfq6MpPr5gV5g0Wy2dPoQdhcpmzX9fhOkQzOoRezEKG8RLuD_xrRATrSKGuHA4iuOdron-4i0s1THZ4QjFY86xRotF6cOL7H-BELKEIuMcVbx6ZKJJAoqSVBVQQQSPf_EZ/w268-h328/clustered+leaves+print+made+with+bean+soak+water+by+Melissa+Ohlman-Roberge.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>... and the medium Melissa used was stained water left over from soaking a batch of beans! I take my hat off to creative thinkers like Melissa! I think the message we can take away from this is: "Go ahead! Try anything!" </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>And don't forget the fun that springs to life when you spatter your artwork! </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>Dena Cusick shows us this kind of fun; she too used </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a> ....</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWs4gojrogaMcHUbv7Bzu1WuDJ7lukPKy9DZoYzIa5uk72LOxwbULAy2MqmMSksmYREsUy5SDqg6Nom0jIIAXZeIuchrKLjKqxZgr7cktSy5Wa3tToDEqqUhFnw9jDNP3zrO5Isj4L15S/s838/Dena+Cusick+IMP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="452" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWs4gojrogaMcHUbv7Bzu1WuDJ7lukPKy9DZoYzIa5uk72LOxwbULAy2MqmMSksmYREsUy5SDqg6Nom0jIIAXZeIuchrKLjKqxZgr7cktSy5Wa3tToDEqqUhFnw9jDNP3zrO5Isj4L15S/w221-h410/Dena+Cusick+IMP.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>To read my run-down on a variety of ways to create spatter, please check <a href="https://heartworkbycecilia.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-rundown-on-spattering-art-made-with.html">here</a>.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Today's final pieces of stencil-made art were created by artist Debi Adams. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""><b>Check out <i>StencilGirl Talk</i> <a href="http://www.stencilgirltalk.com/2017/06/underwater-stencil-layering-with-debi.html?showComment=1497961019272#c7118862708440583723">here</a> -- </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to see a full-length write-up, with step-by-step photos, showing what Debi Adams did with stencils by <span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Seth Apter and Nathalie Kalbach</span>, alongside my 9” x 12” stencil <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves.</a></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span face=""><b>Here is just a small sample:</b></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span face=""><b><br /></b></span></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span face=""><b>Today's first black-and-white art sample features hot air balloons created with freehand drawings. </b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span face="" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Featured stencil:</i> my 9" x 12" stencil <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-facets-precious-gems-cecilia-swatton-p/l283.htm">Facets</a>.</i></span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span face="">Developing the art sample above, I started with a mix of white gesso and liquid matte medium; and I used the <a href="http://heartworkbycecilia.blogspot.com/search?q=how%27s+your+subtraction">subtractive/reductive technique</a> to lay in the stenciled area. My 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-facets-precious-gems-cecilia-swatton-p/l283.htm">Facets</a>,</i> in its entirety, looks like this:</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">After creating today's hot air balloon art-sample, I switched to a second subject -- vases -- and used zinc white acrylic instead of a gesso-liquid matte medium mixture ... </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span face="" style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Above: These stencil-patterns of smaller vases in the upper left and lower right were created with my 9" x 12" stencil <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l144.htm">Vases</a></i>.</u></span></span></td></tr>
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<b><span face="">My 9" x 12" stencil <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l144.htm">Vases</a></i></span></b><b style="font-family: verdana;"> looks like this:</b><br />
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-80893615733284937472020-08-24T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-24T00:00:10.542-04:00CLUSTERED LEAVES 9" X 12" Mask -- and Many Others! -- Highlighted Here Today<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a></i> is a 9" x 12" mask that looks like this--</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Melissa Ohlman-Roberge has created the stunning art below; please feel free to click on it for enlargement so you can better see details in Melissa's masterpiece.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Next up: Jackie Giammarco has a novel approach to using my 9" x 12" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking up Through Trees L753</a>. </i>The stencil itself is shown in the top photo below --</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-- and, after making a multi-color print with</span></b> <b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking up Through Trees L753</a>, </i>Jackie grabbed scissors to cut out some of the shapes created by the interplay of overhead tree branches. Genius-level creative idea! Some of those cut-outs appear in the photo below; again, you can enlarge it to better see details ....</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>After its borders have been removed, and after it's been used for multiple painting projects, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking up Through Trees L753</a> </i>looks like this --</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Photographer-artist Kim Ross has used my 6" x 6" stencil <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s178.htm">Feathers</a> 6 </i>in making the simple yet truly dramatic print below:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rae Missigman, an exciting artist to search out and follow, created the gorgeous prints below; in the lower right, with bright pink and yellow paints, she's made a print with my 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-mask-longwood-florals-cecilia-swatton-p/l675.htm">Longwood Florals Mask</a></i>. I love what she's done with this entire collection of masks and stencils from StencilGirlProducts.com! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>--</i>and it has a matching stencil <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-longwood-florals-cecilia-swatton-p/l676.htm">here</a>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I sincerely thank each and every artist who granted permission for me to re-post her art here today;<i> </i>and I thank every one of you who have come for a quick visit to today's blog post! To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl masks and stencils, please start <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">here</a>.</b></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Today's post shines a light on artists who have used some of my stencil and masks, and the ball starts rolling with <a href="http://www.artbycmstudios.com/">Carolyn McGowan</a>. The 3 photos immediately below are close-ups of prints she made with 3 stencils from the 9-stencil sheet <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ATC-Mixup-1-Cecilai-Swatton-p/l768.htm">ATC Mixup Swatton #1</a>. </i>Carolyn's substrate was brown packaging paper, and her technique was to apply a variety of commercial color sprays and next to add a whimsical touch by sewing around each of the images. This project was part of a bigger project done at StencilGirl StencilClub for a project-of-the-month swap with a washi tape theme.</b></span><br />
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<b><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Below are two Gelli Plate prints Claudia made using </span></b><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Garden-Montage-Cecilia-Swatton-p/l652.htm">Garden Montage</a>, </i>first as a positive image and second as a negative image. Both were made with a variety of paints blended together; my favorite is the second one -- I love these mysterious colors!</b></span><br />
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<b><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My sincere thanks to today's artists, who generously allowed their artworks to be shown here! And thanks to all who took time to stop at this blog today! To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl stencils and masks, please start <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">here</a>.</span></b></form>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below: The black background is my freehand painting-sketch of a very special personal favorite, bamboo. The over-print in pale green was made with acrylic paint pressed thru my 6" x 6" stencil <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/Bamboo-Wall-Stencil-Cecilia-Swatton-p/s197.htm">Bamboo Wall</a></i>. I had to trim the print so as to fit onto the front of a 5" x 7" greeting card ....</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>My love for botanical designs stretches beyond my own creations.</b></span> <b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Recently I discovered a source of botanical <a href="https://inloveartshop.com/products/diy-scrapbooking-lace-paper?_pos=1&_sid=ba527bc89&_ss=r">laser cut-outs</a> that add dramatic punch to greeting cards that I'd created farther back in time--</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: The original print was made on Chinese Joss Paper using my Artist Trading Card-sized stencil <i>Ginkgo</i> which is one of nine stencils included in <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ATC-Mixup-2-Cecilia-Swatton-p/l769.htm">ATC Mixup Swatton 2</a></i>. The white lace edging and leafy sprig were late additions -- using a gluestick -- that really sparked life into the overall image.</span></u></td></tr>
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-90947491059897650772020-08-15T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-15T00:00:00.876-04:00Mica and Stencils!<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From <a href="https://usartquest.com/product/the-original-mica-tiles/">US Artquest</a> (maybe other vendors as well) you can get </span></strong><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>mica, a translucent mineral that comes in thin layers; and it can be split into even thinner layers.</strong></span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> </strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong><br />It arrives looking like this:</strong></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: printed with my 9"x 12" stencil <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a> </em>and white acrylic paint; my last step was to strengthen the leaves' lines using a red permanent marker by Sakura.</span></u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: my 9" x 12" <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-loopy-ladders-cecilia-swatton-p/l434.htm">Loopy Ladders</a> was </em>used on a piece of reflective mica</u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: I used 9"x 12" <a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm" style="font-style: italic;">Clustered Leaves</a><i> </i>to print the background and and 9"x 12" <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-loopy-ladders-cecilia-swatton-p/l434.htm">Loopy Ladders</a> </em>to print the middle, barrel-shaped layer.</span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a> </em>was used with metallic silver paint to make this print on mica.</u></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Above: Printed with one leaf from <em>Clustered</em></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><em> Leaves</em> (notice the translucency of the mica that lets you see part of the background, which was created with both <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-loopy-ladders-cecilia-swatton-p/l434.htm">Loopy Ladders</a>.)</em></span></u><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: Again, an image printed using one leaf from <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered</a></em></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm"> Leaves</a>.</em></span></u></td></tr>
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Because mica is translucent, it can become the "glass" window atop a photo, a drawing or any other image. You can create a frame around the edges of this "glass" using a stencil with acrylic paint; mica's slick surface readily accepts acrylic paint.</span></b><br />
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<strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">On each of the three images below, I've used the same sheet of transparent mica, trimmed around the edges with metallic acrylic paint applied thru parts of my <em><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-loopy-ladders-cecilia-swatton-p/l434.htm">Loopy Ladders</a></em> stencil. </strong><br />
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<strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">These three temporary placements are here to show how a piece of mica -- with its edges stencil-printed -- can be used as a frame-accent for areas you want to highlight in any artwork. Altho these three are temporary, please note that it's easy to permanently attach mica to any sturdy surface; just use a small dab of heavy gloss gel medium.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Because it's flat, mica can be used for layered art that will fit smoothly onto the pages of an art journal. But -- because it's rigid -- you may want to use it instead on a journal cover.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "verdana";">Mica can also morph into 3D art, when you support it underneath using <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZAm_vgJw4">3-dimensional glue dots</a>.</span></strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.26px;">And mica makes great dangle-art -- just use a <a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/General-Tools-Grommet-Kit-with-12-Solid-Brass-Grommets-1-2-Inch/16491399?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=83&adid=22222222227000795074&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40871938352&wl4=aud-834279575966:pla-78764928752&wl5=9003689&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=16491399&veh=sem&gclid=CjwKCAjw5vz2BRAtEiwAbcVIL6paNHBIl2oiQm8iAuRbigOBgDTrGT4Z0wYcZP5Uw8LLLQmBpCZh2hoCj9cQAvD_BwE">grommet tool </a>to punch a hole in the top of stencil-printed mica pieces to make dangle earrings, Christmas tree ornaments ... you name it.</span></b><br />
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-66940180434425008032020-08-12T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-12T00:00:03.083-04:00IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE (9" x 12") Mask and Friends <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Today's photos show ways I've used </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">L451</span> <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">It's a Jungle Out There</a></i></b><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> alongside other masks and stencils. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I have a lot of these shots, because, to my eye, <span style="color: red;">L451</span> goes hand-in-hand with several other masks and stencils I've designed -- ones with strong line patterns. </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: L141 , S126 and S238 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span></u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 with <b><span style="color: red;">L451</span></b></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 and M050, with <b><span style="color: red;">L451</span></b></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: L141 and S238 and M050 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: S238 and M050 and L141 with <b><span style="color: red;">L451 </span></b></u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: M050 and S126 with <span style="color: red;"><b>L451</b></span> </u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: M050 and S126 and S238 with <b><span style="color: red;">L451 </span></b></u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Above: </u></span><u style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">L141 and M050 and S126 and S238 with <b><span style="color: red;">L451 </span></b></u><u style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>L141 is <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l141.htm">Mimosa Stencil</a> </i>(9" x 12")</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>M050 is <i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/m050.htm">Palm Fronds Silhouette Mini</a></i> (4"x 4")</b></span><br />
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-5889452902192517542020-08-09T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-09T00:00:02.367-04:00The Fun of Collaboration Art-Making with StencilGirl Stencils and Masks<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since one picture is worth a thousand words, then the word-count shoots way over the top for <a href="http://www.stencilgirltalk.com/2017/05/serendipity-and-party-that-followed-lisa-dobry-stencil-club.html">this</a> issue of <i>StencilGirl Talk</i>. Lisa Dobry's write-up says it better than I ever could!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm"><br /></a></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a></i>, a 9" x 12" stencil, looks like this:</b></span><br />
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-52982786735653520452020-08-06T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-06T00:00:09.551-04:00Rae Missigman's Outstanding Stencil and Mask Art<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>If you're ready for a wonderful visual treat, visit Rae Missigman's post below:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://rae-missigman-ejdf.squarespace.com/blog-annoucements/seths-online-project">https://rae-missigman-ejdf.squarespace.com/blog-annoucements/seths-online-project</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Going thru this post of Rae's, I was delighted by those glorious colors playing so beautifully together and happy to see that she included my 9" x 12" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-mask-longwood-florals-cecilia-swatton-p/l675.htm">Longwood Gardens Florals Mask</a></i> among the stencils and masks she chose for these outstanding projects. Here is art at its best!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The blog-hop mentioned in this post of Rae's has ended, but you can catch the next one just by following <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StencilGirlProducts/">this link</a>.</b></span></form>
Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-10883936319437448982020-08-03T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-03T00:00:00.470-04:00PALM FRONDS SILHOUETTE -- 3 Sizes for 3 Times the Fun <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Now that <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/searchresults.asp?Search=palm+fronds+silhouette&Submit=">Palm Fronds Silhouette</a></i> comes in three sizes -- <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-palm-fronds-silhouette-lg-cecilia-swatton-p/l791.htm"><i>L791</i></a> is 9" x 12" and <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-sm-cecilia-swatton-p/s238.htm">S238</a></i> is 6" x 6" and <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/m050.htm">M050</a></i> is 4" x 4" -- I've been using them together as often as I can!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Below: two close-ups of an artwork still in progress. Before using my </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/searchresults.asp?Search=palm+fronds+silhouette&Submit=" style="font-style: italic;">Palm Fronds Silhouette</a> masks with modeling paste, I removed most of their borders with my Joyce Chen scissors.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I'm still using them separately as well. My 6" x 6" </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-sm-cecilia-swatton-p/s238.htm">S238</a> </i>was what I grabbed for making the two prints below. For the first one I used marbled paper as background. After placing </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-sm-cecilia-swatton-p/s238.htm">S238</a> </i>atop that, I sprayed the surface with several layers of spatter paint. I got the spattered look by applying the layers with a spray bottle containing a tiny bit of airbrush medium, a little acrylic paint and water.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The print below, also created with </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>6" x 6" </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-sm-cecilia-swatton-p/s238.htm" style="font-style: italic;">S238</a>, was made on a Gelli Plate that'd already been used with an assortment of media, including inkpads.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>And when stencils or masks get stained in a way that catches my eye, I like to use them as collage elements. Like this:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Above: On a paint-spattered background of heavy watercolor paper, a paint-stained <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s085.htm">Kaleid</a></i> mask (6" x 6") becomes the middle ground in a three-layer collage. Atop that rests a paint-stained 4" x 4" </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-silhouette-palm-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/m050.htm">M050</a>. </i></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for taking time to stop here today! To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl masks and stencils, please start <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">here</a>.</b></form>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lisa Dobry at StencilGirl StencilClub has created a popular, long-standing and fun tradition called <i>Party Call</i>. Each month she announces a new theme, whereupon StencilClub members have the option of taking part in a project that usually calls for a members' exchange of stencil- and/or mask-printed art. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The July 2020 <i>Party Call </i>theme was inspired by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wendy.baysa?hc_location=ufi">Wendy Baysa</a>, who's developed a technique for developing homemade "<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Include-Colorful-Scrapbooking-Journals-Wrapping/dp/B07YTRYHM5/ref=sr_1_16?crid=B89BZ42GM8F6&dchild=1&keywords=washi+tape&qid=1593695800&s=arts-crafts&sprefix=washi+tape%2Caps%2C149&sr=1-16">washi tape</a>." These decorative paper strips ordinarily come in rolls, ready for use in embellishing art journals, etc. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The advantages of making your own "tape" are: (1) It's fun! (2) Your finished tape will not look like any of the commercially available tapes -- instead, the project is opportunity to express your own unique creative approach to art-making.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lisa's suggestion for this <i>Party Call</i> was to create one or more strips of paper roughly 24" long and 3" wide. One source for this paper can be the brown wrapping paper that comes as cushioning in packages of fragile supplies delivered to your door. Another potential source is the "Kraft" brown rolls of paper in the giftwrap section of a dollar store. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's no wrong way to do it! If you don't like your first results, just keep going! The original stencil- and/or mask-prints are quickly covered by the next layer -- partially covered, just enough to make someone ask, "How did you do that?" You'll see what I mean as your eye travels down thru the sequence of prints coming up.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I started with the idea of creating two washi tapes, so I cut a 24"-length of paper 6" wide; at the end of my printing session, I would cut it in half to get two 3"-wide tapes, for doing trades with two other StencilClub members.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>My first series of prints , not shown here, were done with 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> </i>using red and yellow heavy-body acrylic paints applied thru a sponge brayer. After those paints dried, I created a new color by adding opaque white paint to the red used earlier. Using my 6" x 6" stencil <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s080.htm">Marbles</a></i>, I made a series of prints all along the 24-inch length of paper --</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next, with a switch to pale blue heavy-body acrylic paint, I repeated this step using my 6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ski-lift-works-cecilia-swatton-p/s463.htm">Ski Lift Works</a></i>:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Choosing my 6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-tiger-lily-cecilia-swatton-p/s524.htm">Tiger Lily </a></i>for the following step, I decided to start making the prints in an every-other 6-inch space, instead of continuing to make continuous prints all along the paper strip . For example, below,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-tiger-lily-cecilia-swatton-p/s524.htm">Tiger Lily </a> </i>has been used with purple paint to the left of the central image and to the right of it. This was to establish an every-other-one pattern.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below: I continued the every-other-one pattern as I made prints with my 6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-links-cecilia-swatton-p/s079.htm">Swatton Links Stencil</a></i>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My 6" x 6" mask <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/s166.htm" style="font-style: italic;">Trivet A</a> went to work helping create the next layer:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sidestepping back to a cool color -- green this time -- I used two more 6" x 6" stencils of mine. In the upper left of the photo below: <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/Bamboo-Wall-Stencil-Cecilia-Swatton-p/s197.htm">Bamboo Wall</a></i>. To the right of it, in the upper middle of the photo: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-grid-cecilia-swatton-p/s077.htm">Swatton Grid Stencil</a></i>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once the final, green paint layer had dried, I cut the 24-inch-long paper strip into halves, creating two strips of 3-inch widths each. I added embellishments, then coated everything with a layer of gel gloss medium. This gel intensifies colors as well as securing all the embellishments permanently in place, especially in the event that my two StencilClub trading partners may want to roll up the tape after receiving it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below: A macro-close-up of an embellishment made with a butterfly paper punch and a partial print (orange and blue, spattered with yellow)made with my 6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-sprigs-cecilia-swatton-p/s523.htm">Sprigs</a></i>.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: These white flower-like embellishments are stickers that I bought <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Inlovearts.official/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARDyK29RbSxFoyPf01kSsbdl80QlWcNDObH-i8uVoJbohmmdn69tHalDPL5LcDUjMLplFJF4-YKeRhQRqM4gIOpRoyJ8CRYGCOBwbbQ8MeEZac2ZUp3Y5Kg43GmgJMs-nDlkQuALPj4A4uUqykYPDhJ_foWQ31w85IUpxbJzEd6CX6nM0Q&hc_ref=ARRodhz5aQOIc1IKL98QQ1lk0Qg05rMd6Ud60dOqcmYpJgAkkVxki6axVdpvgkdzmt8&fref=nf&__xts__[0]=68.ARCmKqZAQFztS0wxj4SSuuqbFzRaw3IAfdChqlk-XCSjJLf1b_ZMIkfHST9Cy88NQB6n0RMx6USRUDfcWzpSm3X5KIbNC6_DvipTMQCb_tXosA2cQLOf2-ODKZ9XQG-ntv-7NLPgyV5Z0U-Eay5cX47vNhL5jSiXaE8FBL9qJJwFyku2ujJSIbx-cJ0tAsgKYpqXY_PLgaaPMrno5WqVGiSeN5isXgHGYqj35gGZQMvaoWPL89R7E4mOPdFx1oT08LfGIBiYF84wmjcn3CfFtN0h9LQOCTGvjW1w&ft[tn]=kC-R-R&ft[adid]=23844898686770272&ft[qid]=6845337444542124332&ft[mf_story_key]=6454175311198438111&ft[ei]=AI%40AQIJzl-kSPBVxdJev6ppN9WrPBoJssV05eoUvSzkuIi8RuHkgl4AGiz74zqas_Tgqsdf9FphaVdcalHpytpUKEBl&ft[top_level_post_id]=1281798895357237&ft[src]=10&ft[view_time]=1593803644&ft[filter]=h_nor&ft[fbfeed_location]=1&ft[insertion_position]=43&ft[ordinal_position]=44%3A4&__md__=1">here</a>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because the close-up above features a sample of collage, I want to explain my adhesive process. Adhesion was especially important in this project because the "tape" was going to be folded and sent thru the mail -- where things can so easily get run thru a mangle! -- and at reaching its final destination, it might be wrapped into circular shape, which again could stress the adhesion.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span data-offset-key="20c9l-0-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">I'll start by bringing up a tip received from </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="20c9l-1-0" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #dce6f8; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="20c9l-1-0"><span data-text="true"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-mary-beth-shaw-s/1821.htm">MaryBeth Shaw</a></span></span></span><span data-offset-key="20c9l-2-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"> -- if you're going to adhere a largish paper to a background, it works best to first <u>gently</u> spray that paper with a water mister, before using the adhesive. This stretches the paper fibers in advance so that when they're adhered, they're less likely to wrinkle. </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span data-offset-key="20c9l-2-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">Now this will sound like a contradiction, but my rule of thumb is that the drier your adhesive, the fewer wrinkles you'll get. </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span data-offset-key="20c9l-2-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">I use different adhesives, depending on the project at hand.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span data-offset-key="20c9l-2-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">For hard-to-hold, thick and/or textured papers -- as well as for projects like today's featured "tape," which will undergo some stress to the adhesion, </span></span></b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="20c9l-2-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">I use <u>heavy body</u> matte medium -- not the regular strength matte medium because that's too wet for me. Heavy body dries faster, so it may be hard getting used to, but it has great hold. Heavy body gloss medium has the same strong hold, but the reason I use matte instead of gloss is that I usually don't want my final project to potentially have shiny (glossy) edges around the paper that's been added. I want my entire finished surface to have the same finish -- and for me that's usually a matte finish. </span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="20c9l-2-0" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">On greeting cards and similar projects, I use Pioneer Embellishment Gluestick; there are other brands that work too; however, for myself, I've found that "school-supply" gluesticks don't hold up very long -- and for some projects, that's perfectly okay. Again, it just depends on the needs of the moment. </span></span></b><br />
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-62897137385829209762020-07-27T00:30:00.000-04:002020-07-27T00:30:03.206-04:00Starburst Effect with both 6" x 6" s793 LOOKING UP THROUGH TREES SMALL and 9" x 12" LOOKING UP THROUGH TREES L793<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: This acrylic paint print on watercolor paper has come thus far thru the use of both</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my </span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a> </i>(mostly in the background) and my 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> </i>(foreground.)</span></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The more I worked with these two masks, the clearer it became that both designs are perfect for creating starburst effects; all that this takes is for the bottoms of the trunks to be left out. The print above is one example; here's another --</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Altho I came to love the starburst idea, I still at times revert to using the </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">6" x 6" mask </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a> </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">to further explore abstract imagery of any kind ... just for the fun of the exploration, to see what surprises await me:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And its last step was my cutting out one of the above prints and gluing it to a background; that background, below, had started life as a page in an outdated picture calendar. (I'd previously added a layer of dark coral acrylic paint that matched that color in the multi-print above.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: I call this <i>Flight of Fancy Landscape</i>, since my center-stage trees print is flanked by trees that had appeared in the original photo and are still visible, tho paint-veiled.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Above: This mysterious Japanese beauty came from an old hairstyling magazine and has been transformed with dramatic impact via acrylic paints and my new mask </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a> s793 </i>-- its 6" x 6" outer frame having been cut off prior to use here.</b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"> (There are
other media that would work just as well, like Liquitez Palate Wetting
solution. You could probably even use that liquid product sold for reducing
water spots in your dishwasher. This kind of liquid is called a </span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17.12px;">surfactant* -- something that functions in reducing surface tension in a liquid into which it's added. I</span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17.12px;">ts </span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 17.12px;">purpose is to keep the mister hole from clogging up with dried paint or ink.</span>)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;">In a totally different approach to spattering, </span>another tool I use is a cute little <a href="https://www.jerrysartarama.com/spatter-wonder-speckle-brush">round-brush tool for spattering</a> from Jerry's Artarama; this tool reminds me of the
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next-to-last on my spatter-making list: A tool called a "mouth mister." The way to use this tool is to put one end of it to your mouth; stick the opposite end into a liquid like acrylic ink, liquified watercolors or Golden High Flows; and blow! You can get different results by blowing gently, blowing with gusto, etc.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of these misters is sold by the artist Jo Toye. Another mister is the Pat Dews mister.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's one last "tool" I use for spatter; the reason it's in final place is that it's the most risky. When I use it, I have a wet-wipe of some kind ready at hand, in case I want to do do immediate damage control after making the spatter. And I make sure to place the painting-in-progress on a generous spread of old newspapers or old packing papers. Because this could get messy!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And at times -- for added insurance -- I create a barrier coat over the painting-in-progress, and make sure that layer has dried thoroughly, before I bring out this tool. (A barrier coat can be brushed on using either matte medium liquid or glossy medium liquid -- or even a combination of the two, with a little water added to the mix.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This risky spattering is done with a liquid acrylic paint, using its original container -- when that container has reached the point of being nearly empty. For this, I use either liquid acrylic or Golden High Flow acrylics, or even a combination of the two, one after another, when I want more than one color of spatter. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The way I do this spatter is to lift the nearly empty bottle above the painting and squeeze the bottle. That's all! (But it's a good idea to try a test squeeze first, using an old newspaper!)</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Made with (left) <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-R-E-Cecilia-Swatton-p/m268.htm">R&E M268</a> and (right)</i> <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-M-Y-Cecilia-Swatton-p/m267.htm" style="font-style: italic;">M& Y</a><i> M267</i> -- so named because each is an abstracted version of two letters of the alphabet.</span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-R-E-Cecilia-Swatton-p/m268.htm" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">R&E M268</a><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">, </u><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just once more</u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below are two examples of paintings that were completed with my customized acrylic paints in spray bottles; you may want to click on the photos to enlarge them to better see the spatter--</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Made with scissor-customized 6" x 6" masks <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-sassy-spray-cecilia-swatton-p/s465.htm">Sassy Spray</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-Small-Swatton-p/s793.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small s793</a></i></span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The reason I list all multiple approaches to spattering is that with each of
them, there's a somewhat different effect. Even when using those little mister
bottles of my custom sprays, I can get a variety of effects, depending on how near
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;">*Using a surfactant is not an
original idea. I got it years ago in an art class. </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We were painting fabrics -- something I never plan to do again; but even in a class like that,
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've had the pleasure of seeing lots of gorgeous layered art prints created with the Gelli Plate -- all of them by other artists! I'm just not as good at using the plate as others are. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel that, for me, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there's an advantage in the brayer-application approach. When I'm working on a large piece of watercolor paper, for instance, the brayer method lets me target specific areas with each application. It gives me enough control to gradually build a composition that I like. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One thing I've learned, in these happy years of working with my StencilGirl stencils and masks, is that there's one person I want to please with my final artworks. <i>Moi</i>! </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">All of my art samples for today were created with this sponge style of brayer, which, incidentally, can be found <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Bright-Creations-Brayer-Paint-Rollers/dp/B07RYR36PY/ref=sr_1_4?crid=19LVZQBMDVT8J&dchild=1&keywords=sponge+brayers+for+crafts&qid=1593120670&s=arts-crafts&sprefix=sponge+brayer%2Caps%2C147&sr=1-4">here</a> as well as elsewhere. </b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: An example of the way I use the loaded brayer to direct paint thru the stencil or mask openings. Here, I've used masking tape to hold the mask in place, but usually I don't bother with that.</span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The print directly below, done with acrylic paints on watercolor paper, is just the first step in what will become a multi-layered piece. </span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: A first-layer print, created with acrylic heavy-body paints and with my </span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a>. </i></span></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below is a series of prints, numbered in progression, all made with </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a>. </i>Since acrylic paints dry rapidly, these layers were quick to build up:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: First layer of prints using </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my </span></span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a>.</i></span></span></span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The photo below shows the third layer; in this layer, I started to include the use of </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">my 9" x 12" </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a>:</b></i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many layers later, having repeatedly used both </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">my 9" x 12" </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm" style="font-style: italic;">Looking Up Through Trees</a><i> </i>and my brand-new<i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">6" x 6" mask </span><i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a>, </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">I came to another stopping point:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And at this point, I'm calling it done!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below: Another first-layer print: Since it's in black and white, will more layers -- in color -- be added?</span></b><br />
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Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-16744200328398352882020-07-18T00:30:00.000-04:002020-07-18T00:30:00.740-04:00Working in a Series with Brand-New Mask LOOKING UP THROUGH TREES SMALL (6" x 6") -- s793<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Doubling back to my own post of July 9, the day my newest StencilGirl mask was released, I must once more give credit where it's due.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some time ago, StencilGirl's Carol Baxter put the bug in my ear to create a </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9" x 12" mask, <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Large.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More recently, Carol put a bug in my other ear -- the idea of developing a </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-Small-Swatton-p/s793.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small </a></i>to go it alone, or to be used with the original.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't grasp the genius of Carol's second suggestion till I entered the playground of my imagination with both <i>Trees</i> in hand.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then two-together ideas started coming so fast that the only way I could keep up would be to put stretch each day into more than 24 hours -- whew! Or maybe the real issue is that I'm slowing down in my old age?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: Most often, I'm using both <i>Trees</i> with their outer borders cut off -- not an approach that appeals to everyone, I admit. But I thrive on whacking away at stencils to customize them. Edgar Allan Poe kept re-writing his stories for years, even after they'd been published. So maybe I'm the EAP of the stencil-and-mask world...? I keep "designing" my stencils and masks even after I've designed them!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Any type of sharp, short-bladed scissors works for customizing. My favorite is Joyce Chen scissors -- but they have risen so much price-wise that <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Fiskars-94817797-Micro-Tip-Scissors-Orange/dp/B00006IFNA/ref=sr_1_7?crid=18OHY0KVFP3BZ&dchild=1&keywords=fiskars+scissors&qid=1594304295&sprefix=fiskars+scissors%2Caps%2C145&sr=8-7">Fiskars</a> might be a better choice.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wo</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rking in a series is a fun way to build up a cache of background papers; but the fun doesn't stop there. Besides blooming into color-coordinated backgrounds for upcoming art projects, a series of similar prints volunteers just as eagerly to become giftwrap, or begs to be cut up for collage or embellishments for party favors or ... pretty much anything else!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below are four papers printed with 6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a> </i>(foreground) and </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Large </i>(9" x 12") in the (nearly obscured) background:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">... and this brand-new mask itself looks like this:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>That series of four printed papers went to work in several ways.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Above left: one print has been cut into strips. Above right: Some of the strips are cut down even further and are being auditioned as collage pieces, as embellishments atop other papers printed with other stencils and masks.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Above: The audition continues as more pieces are added. Below: In this close-up, the other prints become recognizable. The three-quarters orange and blue paper, as well as the two pieces of red and brown paper along the top, were all printed with the companion mask, 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Large</a></i>. And the vertical purple paper along the right border was printed with 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a></i>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>.... was used to create two parts of the greeting card cover above. The 6" x 6" piece became a background in a size corresponding to the blank greeting card. A purple painted tag was added with a gluestick. </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My last step was to use a hole punch to cut out a butterfly and add it as the final touch with the gluestick. </b><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> I use the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Embellishment-Glue-Stick-31-Ounce/dp/B000WFUH4C">Pioneer Embellishment Gluestick</a>, which I like for its permanency as well as its ability, as a dry adhesive, to avoid wrinkling papers.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Once I had my first taste of using my butterfly hole punch on these <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a></i> multi-printed papers , I wanted to do more:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>What would you do with a series of stencil- or mask-printed papers?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Thank you for taking time to visit here today. A peek ahead: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl masks and stencils, please start <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">here</a>.</b></span>Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-75680558474733448692020-07-15T00:00:00.000-04:002020-07-15T00:00:00.257-04:006" x 6" s793 LOOKING UP THROUGH TREES Mask, Plus a Unique "Ring"<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before launching into today's post about my new 6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a></i>, I'm excited to share news of something that I've just discovered. I'm not into fabric arts myself, but I gather that a number of us art enthusiasts are dabbling both in the fabric arts and paper arts. For those focusing on the fabric arts, here's</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a gem-of-a-find. Ta-da! -- it's a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FHDLTH8/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_4368549507?_encoding=UTF8&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07FHDLTH8&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=4cbd04f655c928e0f0ebf707dd2a13cd&tag=balzdesi-20">Cutterz Ring</a>. It strikes me as such a creative and brilliant idea that I just had to give its mention top priority today!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, on with the show!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>When it arrives in its original package, the 6" x 6" mask <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm" style="font-style: italic;">Looking Up Through Trees</a><i> Small </i>looks like this --</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>But once it reaches my hands, like many of my other masks and stencils, it's liberated from its outside border. Only then is it ready</b></span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>... and yes, I try to clean this particular mask after using it with acrylic paint, because it has numerous small openings that could easily get clogged ....</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>But since none of my cleaning jobs is perfect, what ultimately happens is that my masks and stencils become stained ... </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">with results that I see as works of art, in and of themselves:</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-decoration-line: underline;"><u>Above: Example 2 of this mask stained with a collection of acrylic paints.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>I'm hoping these samples prompt some ideas for adventuring with abstract imagery via my just-released 6" x 6" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees Small</a></i>! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>And for further art-making explorations, I suggest pairing this new mask with the 9" x 12" version of <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a></i>. It looks like this:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>And/or you can watch my video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-k4BQ1W12M&t=135s">here</a>.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For this video I used my 9" x 12" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a></i> --</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The vertical rectangle running down the right side of the above collage </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was printed with </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my 9" x 12" mask <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm" style="font-style: italic;">Clustered Leaves</a><i>,</i> using the video's scrape technique. I flipped this section sideways to give a better view of that paper; below, it appears as a band across the bottom.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of the other papers were printed with my 9" x 12" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a></i>, which looks like this...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: The focal point is cut from one of the prints shown a little earlier in this post. It, too, was printed with </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my 9" x 12" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-clustered-leaves-cecilia-swatton-p/l433.htm">Clustered Leaves</a>. </i>Along the bottom are two smaller papers, both cut from a print I'd made using 6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ski-lift-works-cecilia-swatton-p/s463.htm">Ski Lift Works</a></i> --</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>It was Carol Baxter at StencilGirlProducts.com who launched an idea in my direction. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trees! -- both of us were thinking of actual trees and a semi-realistic image of what it might look like, were I standing in a forest or park, craning my neck to look upward through a circle of majestic trees.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Later it was Carol, yet again, who suggested a </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Small.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Today marks the debut of exactly that --</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In preparing today's post to announce this new arrival, I found myself looking at these two images in a whole different way. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They're still semi-realistic trees, of course, but I can also see them as </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>a pair of metaphors for humanity, as it's meant to be: Everyone rising from his or her roots, growing upward to stretch forth branches that intertwine -- each of us different, yet all of us connected</u>.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll be using the two masks together, many times; directly below, however, are two examples of both working working in tandem to create one piece of art....</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dark bottom layer created with </span></u><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Large </i>and top layer created using </span></u><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Small. </i>Detail in upper left was added with a permanent marker. You can click on the image to enlarge it and better see details. <b>In developing this print, I used masks that I had previously cut free from their original borders.</b></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Multiple layers developed using </span></u><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Large </i>and top layer created using </span></u><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Small. </i>Again, the two masks have been cut free from their borders<i>. </i>More about this particular multi-layered print will appear in another post, coming soon.</u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots more of these two-mask combinations are on the drawing board. But today, I'm using the brand-spanking-new </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6" x 6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a><u> Small </u></i>by itself. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In developing today's art samples below, I've taken advantage of the mask's intertwining branches to create abstract imagery. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today's focus is on one specific kind of abstraction -- a mirror illusion, the same as what you see on face cards in a deck.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I approached this project with scissors -- removing the mask's bottom border. (Later I would cut off the entire 6" x 6" border. But for most of my "mirror" prints, I needed only to remove the bottom border.)</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In making mirror images with this mask, I quickly learned that, right after making my initial print, the next step <u>must</u> be to clean and dry the stencil or mask.</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: With heavy-body opaque white paint, the top print has been made and allowed to dry. Its base is glossy black cardstock, previously daubed with metallic acrylic purple paint. The mask has been cleaned, dried and flipped over, before being secured with blue masking tape to the first print. In the upper right corner of the above photo, a line of opaque white paint has been drawn across a palette tablet.* Below the paint rests a sponge brayer, ready to go to work.</span></u></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After making that second print, the mask is lifted. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below is a series of "mirror" paintings created in this way:</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: This twin image was created with metallic gold acrylic paint on a background of glossy black cardstock. After the paint dried, I matted the print onto a background of crumpled goil foil giftwrap. This background is reinforced by sturdy cardboard glued to the back of the sheet of giftwrap. Mask used: </span></u><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Small </i>(6" x 6").</u><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></u><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: This double image was printed on paper previously covered with my hand-drawn script. </span></u><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mask used: </span></u><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a> Small </i>(6" x 6").</u><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to everyone who allowed me to include </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">her artwork here today! To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl masks and stencils, please start<a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm"> here</a>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even during a pandemic, the creation of nature surrounds us, showing that great beauty still thrives.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This thought led me to glance backward to notice anew the StencilGirl stencils and masks of my design that reflect my joy at knowing so much beauty has been created for our pleasure.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First to catch my retrospective notice is </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ATC-Mixup-2-Cecilia-Swatton-p/l769.htm" style="font-style: italic;">ATC Mixup Swatton # 2</a><i>. </i>Until now, I hadn't given a second's thought to the fact that this 9" x 12" sheet of sturdy Mylar includes only one image that doesn't spring from the theme of nature's elegance: <i>Ornamental Iron Curls</i>, in the upper right corner; its inspiration was my 6" x 6" mask </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ornamental-iron-curls-cecilia-swatton-p/s462.htm">Ornamental Iron Curls</a>.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: The penguin in the upper right corner evolved from my lifelong love for birds of every shape and size. Ditto for the stencil-and-mask sets that fill the lower left -- an osprey and a swan, both as regal as the penguin and (almost) every other bird. (Okay, I admit I have no plans for a design based on the image of a vulture. They have their place in creation, so I owe them respect, but the less I focus on that bald head of theirs, the better.) </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nature is celebrated in the central top figure in </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ATC-Mixup-2-Cecilia-Swatton-p/l769.htm" style="font-style: italic;">ATC Mixup Swatton # 2</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, entitled <i>Sprigs</i>, since for me it imitates sprigs of greenery that sprout row after row of rounded leaves. The stencil's other images are, of course, portraits of flowers and leaves.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a huge -- some might say impossible -- challenge to create artwork as magnificent as nature itself, even art inspired by nature. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My 9" x 12" mask <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-Looking-up-Through-Trees-cecilia-swatton-p/l753.htm">Looking Up Through Trees</a>--</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-- </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">took its original inspiration from nature, but in my hands, it quickly evolved into a tool for abstract art-making. One example is the black-and-white painting below:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For other nature-themed projects, I've reached still further back into my stash of earlier stencils and masks. Maybe some of them will spark ideas for new artworks by others ....</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can click on the image above to enlarge it and better see details. Both pieces are Gelli Plate prints. Before making that trip to the Gelli Plate, each paper was removed from an old encyclopedia page; the left one was tinted with thinned yellow-green acrylic paint and the right was tinted with a layer of translucent zinc white acrylic paint. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-- and, for the one on the right, I used <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ivy-9-cecilia-swatton-p/l143.htm">Ivy 9 Stencil</a></i>, also 9" x 12" --</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All four of my ivy-themed stencils were based on the English Ivy that we bought years ago at Longwood Gardens (Kennet Square, PA) and that has been thriving in areas of our yard ever since.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Middle left above: two more papers printed with </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ivy-9-cecilia-swatton-p/l143.htm">Ivy 9 Stencil</a> </i>and<i> </i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ivy-frame-9-cecilia-swatton-p/l142.htm">Ivy Frame 9</a>. </i>Far upper right: a green print on yellow and tan canvas background, made with </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ivy-9-cecilia-swatton-p/l143.htm">Ivy 9 Stencil</a></i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.<i> </i>Top left and central bottom: two papers embossed using 6" x<i> </i>6" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ginkgo-cecilia-swatton-p/s076.htm">Ginkgo</a> </i>stencil.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The greeting card cover below is a collage that stars a background of Chinese Joss paper that I've printed with the Art</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ist Trading Card-sized mask <i>Fern Fronds Silhouette</i>; as mentioned above, it's included in my 9-stencil 9" x 12" <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ATC-Mixup-2-Cecilia-Swatton-p/l769.htm">ATC Mixup Swatton # 2</a> ....</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today's final two art prints represent another inspiration from nature -- this time, mimosa trees. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: a Gelli Plate print made with my 9" x 12" stencil <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-mimosa-cecilia-swatton-p/l141.htm">Mimosa</a>.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Below: an acrylic paint print on an old map; the stencil I used was <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-mimosa-6-cecilia-swatton-p/s126.htm">Mimosa 6</a>.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The exquisite elegance of swans has always captured my attention. I was drawing swan silhouettes for years and years before the happy day that I discovered StencilGirlProducts.com. So of course when the idea for <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-ATC-Mixup-2-Cecilia-Swatton-p/l769.htm">ATC Mixup Swatton # 2</a></i> came along, I wanted to work from one of my many swan silhouettes....</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>... hence the stencil and matching mask in the lower right corner above.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>As I worked with these two artist-trading-card-sized art-making tools -- the swan stencil and its matching mask -- I found myself making some refrigerator magnets. Below are two of them, both created with the swan mask.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: This imprint was created on a thin sheet of <a href="https://www.dickblick.com/products/grafix-dura-lar-wet-media-film/">translucent plastic</a> using a technique in the <i>Absentee Artist</i> chapter of <i>Creative Paper Craft</i> by Nancy Welch. After the paint dried, I cut out an irregular paint-stained "frame" around the swan; next, I used Super Glue to add a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Adhesive-Magnetic-Circles-Diameter-Self-adhesive/dp/B01FGR5PO2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=round+magnets&qid=1593371977&s=arts-crafts&sr=1-2">round magnet</a> to its back. I placed the magnet where the paint was the darkest to keep the magnet invisible from the front.</span></u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: This is the mask itself, painted and re-purposed as a refrigerator magnet. After the paint dried, I used Super Glue to add a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Adhesive-Magnetic-Circles-Diameter-Self-adhesive/dp/B01FGR5PO2/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=round+magnets&qid=1593371977&s=arts-crafts&sr=1-2">round magnet</a> to its back. I placed the magnet where the paint was the darkest to keep the magnet invisible from the front.</span></u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Next up: An example of swan imagery created by my having first traced inside the stencil's opening with a watercolor pencil; then, with fine detail scissors, I cut around the outline to release the silhouette from its original background of blue foil laminated paper that came with its own imprinted texture. The new background, shown below, is novelty paper that came marbled with rich metallic copper, gold and silver. Surrounding this marbled paper is a thin border of metallic bronze cardstock.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Pictured below, a 5" x 7" greeting card cover of two layers. To create the top layer, I placed the Artist Trading Card-sized stencil atop glossy black cardstock. With a sponge dauber, I applied acrylic interference paint thru the stencil. After the paint dried, I cut out the image using <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Fiskars-Contemporary-Edgers-Scissors-12-93017897/dp/B0019N4VPM/ref=sr_1_4?crid=DW7E168094FQ&dchild=1&keywords=fiskars+paper+edgers+scissors&qid=1593373704&s=arts-crafts&sprefix=fiskar%2Caps%2C160&sr=1-4">Fiskars Paper Edgers.</a> (The paint color was labeled as "red" but because Interference paint's reflective quality, the imprint appears as pink in some lighting environments.)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Today's final two swans, below, were made in the same way: Sponge daubers applied heavy-body acrylic paint through the stencil.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bouquets of thanks for stopping here today! To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl stencils and masks, please start <a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-cecilia-swatton-s/1832.htm">here</a>.</b></span></form>
Ceciliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16031340722947528626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1583269383722376605.post-21553155429287648752020-06-29T00:00:00.001-04:002020-06-29T00:00:00.270-04:00DANCE OF THE COURTING CRANES 6" x 6" Stencil and Mask Set<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>For me, the gracefully exquisite shapes of all birds is epitomized in cranes in all their variety. Since I can't claim to tell one kind of crane from another, I've created one StencilGirl stencil-and-mask set to honor all cranes; its title: <i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-courting-cranes-cecilia-swatton-p/s394.htm">Dance of the Courting Cranes </a></i>(6" x 6".)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>In a recent post I showed one way that I use a silhouette stencil like the one above: I secure it to paper with masking tape, then use watercolor pencil to trace around the outer edges of the stencil's open areas. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>However, </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-courting-cranes-cecilia-swatton-p/s394.htm">Dance of the Courting Cranes </a> </i>provides the extra option of using the bonus mask that comes with the stencil. </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My next photo shows that I've placed this mask atop a sheet of paper that's plain red on the back (as shown below.) </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above: Here I'm using a Sharpie marker to trace the outlines around the cranes. When I trace a silhouette stencil on the "right" side of the paper, I use watercolor pencil since that can be easily removed after the silhouette has been cut out. (My watercolor-pencil "eraser" is a cotton swab dipped into water,then squeezed of excess water.) Since this project is being done on the "wrong" side of the paper, I feel safe in using a Sharpie permanent marker. Its outlines won't show in the finished project.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below: I use fine-detail scissors to cut out the outlined silhouette.</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below, the cut-out is auditioned on the front of a greeting card blank. (I buy these 6" x 6" fold-over cards from JAMPaper.com.) In the lower right is a heart-shaped paper-craft punch.)</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The finished card, a Valentine, is below:</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nancycurry.com/">Nancy Sanderson Curry</a> has done me one better -- actually two or three or four times better! -- in having used </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-courting-cranes-cecilia-swatton-p/s394.htm">Dance of the Courting Cranes</a></i></b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in creating the gorgeous image below --</b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having shown this stunning artwork of Nancy's, I nearly hesitate to continue with more art samples of my own.....</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: A print on black glossy cardstock, using a sponge dauber loaded with heavy-body acrylic paint applied around the mask of </span></u><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-courting-cranes-cecilia-swatton-p/s394.htm">Dance of the Courting Cranes </a></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"><u>(6" x 6").</u></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Above: A print on bronze metallic cardstock, created with white, water-thinned acrylic paint sprayed around the mask of </span></u><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-courting-cranes-cecilia-swatton-p/s394.htm">Dance of the Courting Cranes </a></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"><u>(6" x 6").</u></span></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below: a print created with the 8-inch round Gelli Plate and the mask from </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="https://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencil-courting-cranes-cecilia-swatton-p/s394.htm">Dance of the Courting Cranes</a>.</i></b><br />
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