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Why didn't I post these earlier?

Because to tell you the truth I could if I wanted,

 they are finished already for weeks, maybe even months.

But in my head I needed to make series of 7 of everything,

so also 7 butterflies.

how stupid is that, right?

so now I realize it is ok to have created "only" 3 in the butterfly serie I am ready to share them with you: 

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2 days overdue, 

but here are the next 7 icads in the series.

they are all done with collage and watercolours.

While working on them the theme suddenly emerged, 

fly

birds and butterflies fly

and so do cherubs.

dreamscape

Hello and welcome,

In 2016 I didn't complete a lot of my Wanderlust lessons, hence the reason why I didn't sign up last year, but I did sign up for the 2018 class and am determined to do better. 

With the advise from Kasia in the back of my head to be open and explore I started my project for Michelle Turbide's class, which was a class on intuitive painting.

my stepstones for this project were: 

1. layers
2. water/lake
3. pinks and purples

Here you can see the progress of my canvas:

Here I created my lake, but as you can see in the next picture it turned into a meandering river (ok, this is still water)

But the river felt more like a path (ok, no water anymore) towards a sunset

Layers and layers of acrylic paint and inks later it was ready for the final touch,
my butterfly tree.

I LOVE IT!!!

background 43/100

Hello,

Here follows a step by step of background #43:

collage with underpaper.

gesso to tie everything together.

color with oil pastels.

what a difference some black makes.

the rectangle in the middle was just perfect for
 this new butterfly stamp.

background 39/100

Hello,

Luckily the temperatures dropped with 10°C compared to yesterday, much better!

My next page already had some blue paint on it from a previous project.
I felt like doing some fingerpainting, 
so I DID!




Next I chose this image from an advertisement for sunglasses because of the blue background,
out came the orange and some bold black numbers stencilling.
But now the fingerpainting didn't fit in with the rest,
no problem,
I just folded the page.

I added some butterflies and the quote:

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

I totally screwed up her mouth, don't quite know what the opportunity here is but hopefully it will appear soon.

When I will create the next background I will need to take into account that a portion will become part of this page.

background 33/100 - life is an opportunity

Life is an opportunity

Be free

not in a cage

not even in a golden one

My page started with yellow and brown paint on it,
leftovers from another project.
Then I started adding...

and adding...

...and kept on adding until I was satisfied with the result.
(I believe this is a finished piece rather then a background)

background 21/100

Background # 21 started out with a mop-up page from 

background #18, 

recognize the fluo pink and yellow from the stripes and dots?

Next I added some stencilling

And after a lot of oopses I eventually came to something I am pleased with.

WOYWW 413 - background 17/100

Hello and welcome on this drousey Wednesday,
but on the up side it IS Wednesday, 
so this means time to share our workdesk over at Julia's place ( click HERE for all details)
Here is an aerial view from my desk

yes, you guessed it correct, there is another background on my desk, #16 to be correct.

I must say this was a case of sticking to it and keep on adding until I slightly like the outcome, which I eventually did.


Craftsmarket update:

Thanks for all the positive vibes and thoughts last week, they definitely worked.

The cards arrived on time!

I had some sales on Friday and everybody that visited my stand was very interested, they had never heard about mixed media and LOVED my work. What a boost.

Here are some pics of my stand

I actually won first price for most original/beautiful stand.

The price was a nice bouquet of flowers and a voucher for 50 euros for a local craft store.

So it was a success.

On to the next step in my businessplan.

background 14/100

Hello, 

Here is background #14.

I started out by glueing down an old newspaper,
on top of which I placed a butterfly mask which I cut with my Silhouette, 
sprinkled some Brushos and spritzed it with water. 
Next I used that beautiful butterfly napkin I bought last week, just perfect.
I lay dawn the stencil from the butterfly and added black acrylic paint to make the butterfly stand out more. 
I didn't line it up completely correct, but that doesn't matter, this created a nice halo effect, don't you think?
I just LOVE it!!!

background 5/100

Background #5 started as a mop up page from a previous, so it had the blue and yellow already on it:

I added a pattern with this gorgous butterfly stamp and some more translucent colors:

I must say my bottle of medium for changing the opacity of colors has become one of my favorites suplies.
I already knew that layers was the key to a succesful background, but did it with too opaque paints and then you can have 10 layers but you'll only see the last one.

evolution

3 months ago, on my desk for WOYWW 389 was this journal page, 

at the time I thought it was done,

but guess what, 

I've added some more layers

and NOW I think it is done.

WOYWW 398 - butterfly princess

Yep, it is Wednesday again.

The day we all come together to see and be inspired by each other’s wokdesks,

And that all thanks to our lovely host Julia over at The Stamping Ground.

Here is my desk at 5:30 this morning,

just before I leave to work

It is less much cluttered as last week, on both sides,

as I couldn’t bare the clutter at my son’s side anymore I did some cleaning,

He wrote me a nice note to thank me

On my desk is the finished AJ page from last week

I call her my butterfly princess

What else is there?

Well, I bought these haircoloring tools, 

not to color my hair but to use to paint of course,

They are great

Especially the tooted one is great for adding texture

On my desk are also some new stamps

And ornaments

At my son’s side there is a beautiful drawing he made from and for his guinea pig Charlie,

who has been very poorly the last couple of days and is at the vets now as we speak,

I hope he will pull through and we can pick him up this evening, fingers crossed.

monochromatic blue

Apparently it is blue Monday today,

well behold here my all blue page.

"Butterflies hover and feathers appear whenever angels are near"

DPP1 rainbow

The last couple of months my creativity has been on a very very low level, actually almost non existing.

In order to reignite it I searched for some ideas and stumbled across Daisy yellows daily paper prompts:

a series of 67 techniques-based creative prompts to learn, practice or otherwise interpret a variety of techniques that could then be components or lead to new ideas for art.

It is a little nudge to help me commit to a recurring creative play date.

Prompt 1 is rainbows.

I started out by selecting all the colors of the rainbow in panda oil pastels and colored the rainbow in the shape of a heart, no thinking just doing.

I felt like creating a sunburst so I took a babywipe and wiped  stripes from the inner heart outward.

Next I punched out a whole bunch of butterflies in the same colors and glued them on the corresponding colored heart.

However I seem to have issues keeping them glued down on the oil pastels, should I have sealed it first? Or use another type of glue? (I now used Rangers glossy accents)

The prompt did the trick because I did 2 pages in one go.

On the second page I sprayed Dylusions spray inks over the page in the colors of the rainbow, on a separate page I colored the rainbowcolors diagonally with oil pastels,cut out hearts in different sizes and glued them to the page.

I created some drips on the top with white ecoline, only to realize that of course the Dylusions react with waterbased products, oops.

Not sure whether this page is finished or not, but for now I call it finished.