Show Us Your Media Challenge 5! What Makes You YOU?

 

We love seeing your art. Your pages last month were very moving. When you are authentic in your art, it makes your work exceptional. Our next challenge runs from October 19 to November 16, 2017. Here you go....

Create a piece of art about what makes you, YOU. How are you unique? What is your you-ness? What makes you real? Imperfect? Flawed? Quirky? Weird? Beautiful? Magical?

 

What I Am Journal Spread

Dina Wakley Media Journal

Dina Wakley Media White Gesso

Dina Wakley Media stamps, Splatter Girl (the "Art is Life" stamp)

Dina Wakley Media stencil, Scales

Dina Wakley Media paint brushes

Dina Wakley Media Gel Medium

Dina Wakley Media acrylic paint colors: Lime, Evergreen, Cheddar, Fuchsia, Ruby, White, Ocean, Magenta, Umber

Fudeball Pen, black

Shipping sticker (Handle With Care Fragile)

White paint pen

Idea-ology by Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap

Ranger Archival Ink Pad, Jet Black

Stabilo All Pencil, black

 

 

I love autobiographical art journaling. For me, examining who I am, how I am feel, why I feel how I feel, and where I want to go in the future is an integral part of what I do.

 

For this page, I started with a picture of me. I printed it out on my black & white laser printer, cut it out, and used my Gel Medium to glue it onto a watercolor page (pre-coated with gesso, of course). I over-painted the photo loosely. Then I added background colors, painted the flowers, and added journaling.

 

I think over-painting photos is a great way to practice painting faces. I like to use a dry brush. I keep my paint layers thin so I don't obscure the image underneath. I follow the photo to paint dark paint in the dark areas and light paint in the light areas. If I paint over something that I want to define better, I use the Stabilo All pencil to outline it and "bring it back" (i.e. nose, mouth, eyes).

 

I mixed a flesh tone with bits of Cheddar, Magenta, and Ocean. That gave me a pretty brown. Then I added white to lighten it a bit. My favorite shadow color is Umber. It makes fantastic shadows!

 

 

 

I hope to do more pages with this prompt this month. Are you ready to play with us? Please, join us. We love to see your art.

Challenge Rules Recap

I want to put the “me” back in mixed media. All art is personal, whether it be a card or an art journal page or a painting. Join me as we begin a series of monthly challenges and prompts that will fuel your creative spirit and help you delve into the ME of MEdia.

• We will announce monthly challenges on the Ranger blog on the third Thursday of each month.
• Use at least one Dina Wakley Media product in your project. If your product is not obvious (like paint), please list the colors you used.
• You can make anything you like—a card, an art journal page, a tag, a canvas, anything!
• Interpret each challenge any way you like. You can be literal or you can use it as a springboard and see where it takes you. Let the challenge inspire you and stretch you.
• Try to journal on your piece. Write your thoughts about each prompt. You can write a little or you can write a lot, but do your best to incorporate your thoughts and feelings into the piece.
• When you complete a challenge, please share it on your blog and social media (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink.
• We will do two random drawings each month for a prize. We will search the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on Instagram for one winner, and then on Facebook for the second winner. To be clear, you must use the hashtag #showusyourMEdia on either Instagram or Facebook in order to show up in the search and to be eligible to win. You have until the third Wednesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
• We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the third Thursday of each month.

Note this challenge does not take the place of the monthly challenges we have in the Dina Wakley Media Tribe Facebook group. If you're not a member of the tribe, please join us! Artists in the group post lots of cool art and inspiration.

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Comments

[Sue W.]

Love how you painted your face from a photo!

[Rosann]

I so love your journaling pages ; so expressive, they always "move" me to want to Journal but something always gets in the way. Absolutely love your stamps too ... I've got a pretty cool collection :)
I shall explore doing this challenge in the near future !!!

[Caroline Duncan]

Wonderful self portrait! Very inspiring and moving page!