This is for Polly's fabulous Mixed Media challenge, where we are introduced to the Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Pol and I often joke about "weirdo arty stuff we love" - wow this blokes art is off the charts.
I chose the "lollipops" picture as my inspiration and I also decided to use my new Ranger art journal. Craft supplies are expensive here, so I tend to buy stuff then hold onto it, unused or minimal use (I know it makes no sense). With all that is happening in the world, I figured there has never been a better lesson, use what have and love. Enjoy every day!
This journal is a mixture of watercolour paper, kraft, gesso cardstock and canvas. This started out as double canvas pages. I used a few drops of Jane Davenport liquid ink and water, then brushed long strokes across both pages.
I also had an A4 sheet of cardstock to do the same thing with the excess ink. The yellow streak is Dr Phil Martins india ink and water. Both inks acted exactly the same, it was impossible to tell them apart when applying and drying.
I printed the flowers onto copy paper and coloured with Sharpie markers. The fumes had me swinging from a different tree for a short while - must remember to open a window next time.
Everything was going great until I attempted to apply a border using black liquid ink, of course it immediately bleed straight into all the colours - I think I was still fume affected.
I didn't want to tear the entire page out and loose another page in the book, so I cut most of the page off and turned the excess bit into flags.
The border is done with the chisel end of a Copic, the easiest way to do it is to do that fat bits first, then use a thin marker to add the long line (much easier than doing it the other way around). The stems are cardstock and marker, then free hand cut to look a bit more organic.
I used the torn off sheet to make a big flower (to cover up the dodgy flowers I doodled on the right page - hence two stems, not to worry).
I typed the challenge details and names of the products I used on a blank page from an old kids story book. I bought a little 1970's Olivetti typwriter off ebay for a quarter of the price the brand new "retro" craft typewriters cost.
Thank you for looking. Stay safe.
EDIT. The bottom colour is a super dark violet-bluish colour, not sure why it photographs like this.
Date: Saturday, May 16, 2020 GMT Views: 1137
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Sun, May 17, 2020 @ 7:15 PM
Ooohhh, Susie, this is amazing! I love your bright and beautiful rainbow in the background and those lollipops are amazing! Marvelous and vintage Susie!
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Mon, May 18, 2020 @ 12:36 AM
Wow wow wow..Fav’d..ooh your flower. Your take on Hundert Who...stunning, amazing, fantastic, awesome. Can you tell I love it and why didn’t I come up with something like this lol. We need a studio cum craft room meet lol. TFS my mate Ofer East. Hugs
Ps...I got a voucher for the store here in North Perth and guess who is going to get some crazy stamps lol
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Wed, May 20, 2020 @ 11:38 AM
I saw this on my phone and forgot to come back to comment...well, the PC was barely on yesterday. Canvas, ah, that's why I was going to say it almost looks like fabric - and explains how you were able to get that lovely banner-style edging to it. Must make the flower petals wonderful to feel, too.
Registered: March 20, 2008 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Posts: 615
Wed, Jun 24, 2020 @ 9:25 AM
When I saw this very bright set of journal pages, I just had to come in and take a good look! WOW is all that I can say!!! I'm really taken with your lollipop garden, the vibrancy that you create with the horizontal rainbow alone is fantastic, and then having the lollipops almost as if they were planted like trees with their cool patterns and such wonderful, bright colors, it's just like inhaling a whole lot of happiness, love, and great artistry all into one. I am IMPRESSED!!!
Your RHS page with the rainbow-colored larger petals is a great way to reuse what you created previously--I think very smart. The dimension too that you have created is lovely. So very inventive and so overwhelmingly beautiful!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for leaving your very kind and very touching comments on a couple of views of one of my hand-stitched cards I have recently uploaded. You have always been so kind to me, and to so many here at SCS, you take the time and the effort to leave comments and to spread kindness and you upliift me every time you leave me a comment, and I know that you do it for others all the time as well. You are a great encourager here at SCS, plus you work so hard with the Favorites thread each week, please know how much I appreciate you and all that you do to encourage so many fellow artists in so many ways. I think that you are such a very giving, wonderful person, and I needed to express it here. Please know that you really touched my heart when you left those comments. Sometimes it feels like what you create isn't popular, and I know it's not about that, but I appreciate comments all the more on these hand-stitched cards, they took a lot of effort to create and for mainly my Mom, although a few have been for specific people. I am starting to make some for myself to have on hand and to make to give to others--the set of 50 were completed in late 2018 and the large set was given to my Mom in January of 2019, I didn't want it to be part of her birthday or Christmas, both in December, I just wanted to give them to her one evening in January while I was still visiting, which is exactly what I did...
Thank you again, and wow, I am so very overwhelmed with all of the wonderful positive colors and patterns that you have created on your journal, wow, wow, wow, WOW! Such artistry, such inventiveness, and such heart!!!
Best wishes to you, I hope and pray that you remain safe and well,