Journal Prompt: "Silence gives us a new perspective." GEEK Page.

Tracey's Prompt  was to use the quote:

"Silence gives us a new perspective." 

~Mother Teresa~

herm... Silence you say... 

I'm a Whovian, if you are too you KNOW where my brain went...

'Silence will Fall'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_%28Doctor_Who%29

So even after a day of trying to thunk on something on something less 'dark' or more profound... NOPE

The Silence it is! 

Background started with black and white textures, printed off from the internetz, ripped and Gel Medium-ed onto the cardboard backing from an Art Pad. <--i b="" m="" of="" out="" paper="" white="" wtf="">

Then sprayed and stencilled...

Paint and stencilled...

Stamped and more to create the rest of the background.

Then GM-ed on a picture of The Silence and continued to play with inks and paint to blend him (her?) in.

Added the counting marks and Journalling:

Silence...

 Gives us a 

new Perspective...

...again and...

...again and...

...again...

Textured Papers...

Spray and Stencils...

 Paint and Ink and mooooar Stencils....

 Still moar Paint, Ink and Stencils...

 There he/she is... waiting for journaling and counting...

 FINAL SCAN:

BOD 2013: January 21st

 

3" X 5" Index Card

We gotz Geeky Godmother coooooookies! ...and I'm having mine with tea.
*THIS* is class.... We got a lovely wee bundle of home-baked cookies for being one of the first geeks to like our friend Lee Ann's new page and share the link. Greg actually let me take a picture before they were ALL gone. Yum! Thank-YOU Geeky Godmother. ♥
http://www.facebook.com/GeekyGodmother?ref=ts&fref=ts

Inks, markers and printed photo. 

Book of Days: May 4th (May the 4th Be With You) & 29 Faces #5

It's May 4th... a Geek High Holiday!

To 'celebrate' I Jedi'd myself for today's Face in 29 Faces. 

Took as-I-went pictures that I *hope* will help you with a possibly new-to-you and yet super-easy technique for making Faces.

It's an old Art School Trick we used in both caricature and cartooning class to get a 'base' of a Real Face from a photo. 

***Pictures are in the opposite order of the instruction!***

Wanted to put the finished page at the top so it show up when linked places. :O)

Started with a printout of the FACE picture, printed to fit my Book of Days Journal: 9 X 7" Textbook I'm Altering (ie trashing!). 

The page was primed with white $ store acrylic Craft Paint (DecoArt), you can still see the text coming through.

The back of the printed picture was lightly scribbled over with the side of a piece of graphite, a soft larger pencil would work great too, or charcoal...

Then using a ball point pen the main features are outlined.When it's lifted there is a faint 'guide' that can then be worked with... more details sketched in with pencil, other elements added etc... I added the light-saber and Jedi cloak.

Traced over what I wanted in Sharpie PEN (BEST PEN EVER!) and added the title.

Then  the color was added. I used Stampin' Up! Markers... LOVE what they do on this paint, they go on and soak in a bit and fade so it gives a 'comic book' feel to the image and almost no pen strokes show. Blends wonderfully!

I then retraced the Title.

(Time Start to Finish: Less than an hour)

Ta-Da!

Sarah the Jedi.