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Come and make art with me at Ranger Headquarters

I'm excited to be teaching a workshop at Ranger Headquarters in Tinton Falls, NJ. We are going to alter a small white journal...even cutting out a signature, refashioning it, and sewing it back in (among other things). Are you ready for a colorful, adventurous weekend? Click here for all the information.

A Year of Gratitude, #showusyourMEdia challenge 6

We made it through January!

A Year of Gratitude Challenge 6

To read more about the power of gratitude, visit my original blog post here.

How To Participate

• Check my blog and Ranger's blog each month for the prompt.
• Create a piece of art inspired by the prompt.
• Post your art anytime during the month on Facebook and/or Instagram, using the hashtag #showusyourMEdia
• Full challenge rules are at the bottom of this post.

The Sixth Prompt

I am grateful for nature. Little known random fact about me: I wanted to be a florist. I took floral design in college and loved creating with flowers. Eventually my career interests changed, but I still love flowers and all of nature in its amazing glory. I love to watch nature documentaries, and I get a lot of artistic inspiration from it.

• 6x6 White Journal
• White gesso
• Acrylic paint in Mineral, Eggplant, White, Fuchsia, Sky, Magenta, Olive
• Paint brushes
• Mini blending tool
• Collage Collective
• Ultra Thick Gel Medium
• Original Gel Medium
• Black Fudeball pen
• Collage Tissue, Blank
• Stamp Set: Always Flowers
• Jet Black Archival
• Pouring Medium and Cell Creator
• Media Board

Quick description of what I did:

First, I did some paint pouring on Media Board, using White, Eggplant, Sky and Magenta paints. Click here for a video about pouring. When the pours were dry, I pulled the canvas off the chipboard so I could cut it easily. I stamped the flowers with black Archival ink on the pours, and cut them out. I stamped the leaves on some green pages from the Collage Collective, then I layered the flowers all together. To build the page, I started by painting an area of the pages with Mineral paint. Then I used a piece of paper from the Collage Collective as a yellow layer. I glued on the "poured" flowers and added journaling with the black Fudeball pen.

 

 

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 first Wednesday 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 personal social media account(s) (Instagram/Facebook) with the tags #showusyourMEdia and #rangerink. When you share on your personal FB page, be sure to make the post public so that it shows up in our hashtag search. You can share in the art groups, too, but those posts don't show up in the searches if the groups are closed or private.
• 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 first Tuesday of each month to complete the previous month’s challenge.
• We will announce the previous month’s winner AND the new challenge on the first Wednesday 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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