This month’s tutorial came about intuitively, since I started the spread with no idea what song I wanted to work with until I started splashing colour around. One thing led to another, and I started to hum the song “Demons” by Imagine Dragons. The idea for the door came from wanting to integrate the previous … [Read more…]
Hi Friends! It’s Amy again, with a quirky weird project for you and the design team blog today. I got the newest set of stencils from Sarah and I was so excited to use them. And I began to think about what to do with them, and figured I could make some weird animals. yay! … [Read more…]
Hello again. How’s things out in the world today? I’ve decided to try “cute” on for size today (don’t worry, there’s still anatomy involved). Once upon a time, there lived a tiny dragon named Bones. His home was the Violet Mists surrounding The Shadow Castle, under the brightest section of the Milky Way. From there, … [Read more…]
Hey guys! Erin here. I’m excited to be on the blog today and share with you one of my favorite ways to use watercolors with stencils. You’re probably thinking to yourself, wait- how can you use watercolors through stencils?! Won’t they bleed? Be messy and make mud? Well grab a drink, relax and sit back … [Read more…]
Hi all here is my July contribution to team strumpet design team – another journal page based on the death tarot card – seems to be a theme this year, haha. More ending of something in my life and more change. Rather than fight it I embrace death, sit with her and chat over a … [Read more…]
Oh hello! This week I’m celebrating the full moon in Capricorn. Each full moon I love to create a painting. This time, I started with a piece of watercolor paper, a stabilo all pencil and an ink pen. I sketched a rough draft of what my lady would look like. Once the sketch was in … [Read more…]
Stencils Used: Triangles Background Plus Sign Background Crop Circle Eye The Strumpet Stencil design team is doing a fun project this summer – round robin journals! Woo! I received Nolwenn’s lovely journal a couple of weeks ago and decided to use it for this month’s walk-through. Nolwenn had already stenciled some awesome backgrounds onto her … [Read more…]
Hello everyone, it’s Karen here again with another project for Team Strumpet. I’m working inside my Art Journal today and I’m keeping things simple with the gorgeous Triangle background stencil and some long hoarded ephemera from my stash. Creating in your journal doesn’t always have to be complicated and you don’t always have to use … [Read more…]
Hey, hey hello Guys and Gals of Strumpetville! Now I’m sure by now you’ve heard all about the design team round robin journal exchange.. but just in case you happened to crawl up from underneath a rock where you were slumbering waiting for the nicer weather to arrive- Sarah dreamed up this amazing Round Robin … [Read more…]
Hi friends! Amy here on the Strumpet Stencil Blog with a great project you can make so you and your friends can art together. If you’re following along, you probably know that all the Strumpets are collaborating with traveling journals. And so, today I show you how to re-mix a store-bought journal, take it apart, … [Read more…]