By pure chance we have arrived at part of
Ben Okri’s poem that has special resonance in January, a month in which time
seems to be an obsession for all of us. Time passing, time coming, we think
about time a lot more in this first month of the year and in this case the
first year of a new decade.
If you want to see my previous
illustrations of Ben Okri’s words you can find them by searching for me by name
on this blog and they will all pop up. I try and make each spread very
differently from the previous ones to keep it interesting but of course, these
are all art made by me and that is a reuniting and returning element. This
month we have arrived at the following lines: “Time is an act of consciousness: one of the great forces of the
material world.
You will notice that I have used stencils
from a previous StencilClub. If you’re not a member yet (and it would make a
great gift to yourself for this New Year) you can still get these stencils by
becoming a member and then asking for back issues.
Here is the step by step tutorial:
1. Use
2 facing pages from a large art journal. I’m using the largest size
ArtbyMarlene journal that has the great advantage of being able to remove the
pages from the journal (which is ring bound), work on them and return them to
the journal when the pages are done. Lay
out the pages on your work surface and brayer a variety of colors of acrylic
paint onto your pages randomly. I used Fresco paint by PaperArtsy in the following
colors: Pixie Dust, Orchid, Hyde Park, China, Zesty Zing and Lime Light. Let
dry thoroughly.
2. Spray
through parts of the large stencil from the July
2019 StencilClub using sparkly mica sprays in blue.
3. Brayer
on a dark opaque paint (I used Fresco’s Baltic Blue) to the bottom part of the
pages and remove the paint through the same stencil as in step 2, using a baby
wipe.
4. Using
a pencil and stencil Beautiful Halo and transfer the outlines of the stencil to both pages, at
center bottom. Then fill in with a gold marker ( used a Faber-Castell Pitt pen)
and edge the gold with a white marker (I used a Sakura gelli roll 10). Also
outline the oval shapes from step 3 within the head using the white marker, then use a black marker to
outline the face and the circle.
5. Add
the word TIME to the left hand page by outlining the individual letters with a
pencil, using stencil Vintage Typewriter Alphabet, and fill in with a black marker. Then outline
with the gold one.
6. Glue
on the clock onto the right-hand page as shown and outline with a black and
gold marker. Outline the numbers with gold.
7. Stamp
the words of Ben Okri’s quotation onto vintage paper using a permanent black
ink pad and a variety of alphabet stamp sets. Tear out the words and adhere to
the pages as shown using a glue stick. Outline the words with a black chalk
marker and smudge.
8. Using
Distress Crayons (or other water dissolvable crayons), rub on color (I used
pink and yellow) in some places and remove through the stencil used in step 2.
9. Drip
down yellow acrylic ink on the pages.
10. Glue
on the postage stamps as shown.
11. Edge
the pages with a dark blue permanent ink pad.
Wonderful step by step!
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