Thursday, November 15, 2012

Did She Dare?

To grow...
she would have to step away ...
and let go of what was safe and familiar ...

but did she dare?

Inspired by the current challenge quote at Artists in Blogland's Fall Fearless & Fly:  
"You can't make a place for yourself in the sun if you keep taking refuge under the family tree." 
Helen Keller


I hand carved the border stamp.  Instead of ink, I used Golden's fluid acrylic black paint applied with a cosmetic sponge, to be eligible for the challenge at Simon Says Stamp.   The entire canvas has an underlay of collaged tea bags.  The leaves on the tree are from Julie Balzer's Leaf Stencil.  The red warrior and horse on the bottom are from a Tibetan prayer flag, and if you look closely, there is a monopoly dog in the window of the house!

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Linking up to One Little Word (dare),   AIB's Fall Fearless & Fly, Paint Party Friday, Creative Every Day, Create With Joy, and Art Journal Every Day!

54 comments:

  1. Cool white highlights on this! I really like the house too!! : ) Beautiful work!!

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  2. This is fantastic Jessica, I thought the leaves were real leaves you had painted over! Love this and all the textured goodness to go with your words. xox

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  3. Tea bags.. love it. I am going to dare this upcoming year. Thank you, my friend.

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  4. Absolutely lovely piece, great idea to carve your own stamp too! Thanks for joining us for this week's Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge!

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  5. Love your work, Jessica. So imaginative and inspirational. I also appreciate that your process.

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  6. GORGEOUS work! So many layers and details to adore! Thanks so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Show :)

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  7. FABULOUS!!! Just pinned it! Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week! - Ashli :)

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  8. Those words are so right! We grow when we dare, when we risk, when we step out in faith. Love all the gorgeous textures.

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  9. Jessica- REALLY...THIS is my favorite of your designs! Wow! I love everthing you do but this is superb!

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  10. Oh I like this and the poem. Nice texture too!

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  11. A lovely composition and a very familar theme to my life. I don't do art journals much but when I do I like to add a border design, much as you have done. Teabags? What a cool idea. Love the tree design.

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  12. This is gorgeous Jessica! I especially love the texture the teabags create for the background; and how the house is tucked behind her - beautiful work!

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  13. I like how she looks like she's hugging everything close to herself Happy PPF!

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  14. Love the meld of colors and texture is this piece Jessica! Good job!

    Hugs Giggles

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  15. Wow. I love your person and her hands and all the details. Very Lovely. There is a lot of leaf texture. Almost as if you glued them down and painted over them! Pretty awesome!

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  16. There's so much to see in your paintings! Love it! I might have a surprise for you if you hop on over to my blog ...

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    1. I was there and I am so thrilled. I can't wait to frame your print and hang it in my studio!!

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  17. Beautiful painting! Love the tree in her hand - nice touch - and all the wonderful details and textures!

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  18. I love it! The design, the colors, the background, the fore ground...I love ALL of it.
    Beautifully done.

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  19. wow loving all the wonderful layers and colours. Fab work. Happy PPF, Annette x

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  20. Oooh she definitely does dare! She is awesome sauce! Happy PPF.

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  21. Gorgeous, Jessica! I had to go back a couple of times and really take her in. There are so many beautiful elements in the painting. Wonderful. Happy PPF

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  22. Happy PPF! This is fantastic - love the Monopoly dog!

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  23. Wow this is wonderful.... it has such depth to it and so many lovely details.

    Karenx

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  24. this is so beautiful-so many little deatils to look at! happy PPF, FF &F, and AJED!

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  25. It all comes together perfectly! How nice that you did a calendar for Hurricane relief fund. HPPF!

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  26. This is amazing. You could spend hours looking at it and see something new.

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  27. I love how you pulled it all together! This is a great page!

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  28. She is just fabulous! Love the rich colors and writing on her hand... so many great details... it's mesmerizing.

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  29. Lots of beautiful texture. Very beautiful!

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  30. there is so much rich texture and layers in this... really wonderful...xx

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  31. This is beautiful. I really, really like it. Well done.

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  32. So beautiful, Jessica! How impressive that you made your own stamp! I love all the areas of interest in the art.

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  33. This is beautiful. It sort of reminds me of one of those marvelous Byzantine icons.

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  34. Cool! The richness of the color scheme in your piece is just amazing, Jessica. Blessings!

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  35. I feel like I want to just reach out and touch this!

    I'm having a giveaway over at Art in the Garage to celebrate my 1000th post--hope you can stop by and leave a comment!

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  36. i'm commenting because your art is unique and well done! i don't even know what stencil think you're talking about. i like that you described the things you did. i even found the monopoly dog. :)

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    1. Hi Teddi - I designed some stencils for Stencil Girl Products and am hosting a giveaway at this link: http://jessicasporn.blogspot.com/2012/11/fun-with-stencils.html
      Thank you for visiting me!

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  37. Each part of it could be a whole other painting, I love that! Great artwork :oD

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  38. Oh Jessica! So many wonderful things happening here! I love it! truly! I am so glad you dare all the time! Patsy from
    HeARTworks

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  39. This is lovely, Jessica! So many layers and details. I love the close up of the leaves.

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  40. Wow Jessica, this is such an amazing piece of work with so many layers,texture and colour to see.

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  41. I love everything about your image Jessica, it's simply fabulous :-)

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  42. Jessica - this piece is arresting at first glance and then amazing with more perusal - so many details and great colors! Super job!

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  43. This is so neat! I love seeing all the stamps, ephemera and paint, you wonderful portrait. Really wonderful!

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  44. This painting is really lovely! =) I like all the details and colors! :)

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  45. I love how her face emerges and all the details in the background. Such great journaling on the prompt, as well.
    Rinda

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  46. I love all the creative details, it's really great!

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  47. Such a thoughtful piece, I enjoyed taking it all in :)

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  48. Congratulations at SSS! Nice piece!

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