Mixed Media Process with Kristin Van Valkenburgh

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

— Henry Ford

Happy Thursday! I hope this finds you well!  I can hardly believe it, but today marks my last post for this year’s Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team. I made 15 videos over the course of the year, happily playing with Jessica’s beautiful collection of stencils from Stencil Girl and stamps from RubberMoon. Her work is unique, elegant, thought-provoking and above all else, filled with love. It was an honor to represent her and her products, this year and always.

I also want to thank DecoArt Media for supplying us with gorgeous, color drenched supplies and beautiful grounds to work with. I’d been a fan before, but now, after using their buttery gesso and thick, rich ink sprays, I can easily say I’m a lifer. . . .

Now, on to this week’s process video entitled, “Come to My Party.” I used the backing of a 9 x 12 pad of paper for this one, as well as a combination of stamping, stenciling, collaging, drawing and fingerprinting for a truly mixed media piece.



I hope you have fun watching, and please do let me know if you try anything similar, I’d LOVE to see what you come up with.  

If you’d like to keep up with my arty adventures, check out my personal YouTube channel over HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC10sBwGToZKc3nnfT69PzFg.

Stamps used:
Bubbles Girl Stencil by Stencil Girl: http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/product-p/l180.htm
Build-A-Villa Stamps by RubberMoon: https://rubbermoon.com/collections/jessica-sporn/products/build-a-villa-whimsy-turret-js5365g-rubber-art-stamp

With Love, Light & Inky Fingers,
Kristin xo



A childhood obsession with Hollywood starlets led to an early life in the theater, where Kristin Van Valkenburgh spent many happy days on set and behind the scenes as both an actress and makeup artist for the stage. Kristin has a passion for all things mixed media and loves to create whimsical pieces with lots of layers, bright, poppy colors, big eyes and positive affirmations. Her work has been featured in numerous Stampington publications including Somerset Studio, Somerset Studio Gallery, Somerset Life, Somerset Apprentice, Artists’ Cafe and Art Journaling.  

You can find Kristin on her blog, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

THANK YOU KRISTIN!
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Bubbles of Love Art Journal Page - Creative Team Thursday with Kristin Van Valkenburgh

 “Surround everyone you can think of in bubbles of love.”

- Diana Cooper

Hellllooooo & Happy New Year!

I hope this finds you happy, well and with some sort of paint under your fingernails. I know mine are currently pink which, seeing as how I’ve been dipping into Bubblegum Spray Ink, makes perfect sense.

I got these pink fingers by the way, while playing with my absolute favorite stencil in Jessica’s line, Bubble Girl Stencil.  I love the whimsy of the little girl blowing bubbles, but I also like how versatile the stencil is, as you can play with just the circles and splashes if you wanted more of an abstract pattern in your work. In this art journaling page, I used the stencil twice, first with the aforementioned ink and second with a layer of black permanent ink for depth and dimension.

I created the journal page on a piece of used (approx. 10 x 12) paper that I had in my stash of watercolor paper. I tend to use good paper to back my work (and save my white work desk) and as a result, I have plenty of “scratch” paper to play with. I also used a photocopy of one of my old sketches as the main image on my page. I find that it’s nice to work with collage elements that originated from my hands or heart, which for art journaling, seems terribly appropriate.



See how I created this whimsical art journal page on YouTube 
https://youtu.be/5CpdVYllLOw

Thank you for watching! If you try something similar, let me know! I’d love to see how you used your little Bubble Girl. . .

With Bubbles of Love,
Kristin xo

A childhood obsession with Hollywood starlets led to an early life in the theater, where Kristin Van Valkenburgh spent many happy days on set and behind the scenes as both an actress and makeup artist for the stage. Kristin has a passion for all things mixed media and loves to create whimsical pieces with lots of layers, bright, poppy colors, big eyes and positive affirmations. Her work has been featured in numerous Stampington publications including Somerset Studio, SomersetStudio Gallery, Somerset Life, Somerset Apprentice, Artists’ Cafe and Art Journaling.  

You can find Kristin on her blog, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

THANK YOU KRISTIN!  To see all of the Creative Team posts, click here!

         Visit Stencil Girl Products and RubberMoon Stamps to see all my designs!

If you haven't already - please connect with me here:

InLinkz.com

Your comments make me so happy and let me know you were here. I read and treasure every comment and will happily answer any questions as soon as I can.

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Using Parts of Stencils - a Tutorial

Here is the evolution of two art journal pages in which I used the Hindu Deity Stencils without actually creating the deities!

In this first example, I made a random collage in my altered book journal with punches from the newsprint that is on my table.  I use it to dab off my cosmetic sponge before I stencil, and then I have all these crazy colored pieces!  The blue dots are from a scrap of book page on which I had cleaned off my gelli plate!

Using mostly the Ganesh Stencil, I used Sakura Gel Pens to trace some of the elements in the white spaces between the collage.  Can you pick out which pieces I used?  (Check out this blogpost for more examples of how I used the Ganesh Stencil.)

I glazed the whole page with Golden Fluid Acrylics and glazing medium.

I created two silhouettes from magazine ads and laminate paper, two create to profiles.  Then I used dark and light glazes to accentuate them.  I added bubbles from the Bubbles Girl Stencil to the top of the page, and glazed inside and outside the bubbles.   (For more examples of Bubbles Girl, check out this blog hop with lots of amazing artists using this stencil.)

I added some text in my own handwriting and from a Stampers Anonymous Stamp.  I love how the collage and stenciled elements add mystery and intrigue.

This next example has no collage -- just paint!  I started with a page in my "brayer off" book -- this is a blank book in which I clean my brayers when gelli printing.

After a bunch of stenciling using elements from the Hindu Deity Stencils and my Namaste Stencil, plus some overglazing and freehand flower sketching, my page looked like this:  

Can you see the faces of Krishna and Shiva peeking through?  More glazing, more painting....

 Then I used elements of the Ganesh Stencil to create leaves and patterns in some of the flowers:

I added the word "Namaste" to the top.  I expect I will eventually add some journaling in the white areas, but for now, here it is!  (To see lots of examples of how I used the Namaste stencil, jump to this blog post.)   Linking this one very belatedly to Art-Journal-Journey - where the monthly them is/was flowers!

Your comments make me so happy and let me know you were here. I read and treasure every comment and will happily answer any questions as soon as I can.

 

Giveaway!

I can't believe I forgot all about announcing the winner of the Bubble Girl Stencil from last month's blog hop.  So I am giving away two, instead of one!

And the winners are....

Barbara Macaskill and Rita Montgomery! 

I wasn't able to contact either of you through your links, so I hope you're reading this.  Please send your snail mail addresses to me at jessicabethsporn (at) gmail (dot) com and I'll get your girls in the mail to you!



And because I am feeling badly about being so forgetful, here is a free download to express my gratitude for everyone who reads these posts.  This is for your personal use only.

Your comments make me so happy and let me know you were here. I read and treasure every comment and will happily answer any questions as soon as I can.