Art Journaling with StencilGirl® Stencils

Hi, everyone! Kristin Peterson here from Altered States Studio!

My piece started from a collaged journal square from a Dylusions journal. I had added a few pieces of collage paper but, clearly had not finished it. When I saw it again, I knew I could work this into something special for my StencilGirl® Talk post.

Diving right in, I pulled out a few of my favorite stencils.

•   Fragmented line columns

•   Layers of Scallops

•   Circle Rays 6 stencil

•   Soulful Scribbles

•   Soulful Scribbles Unfold

•   Bittersweet Mini

•   Repetition stencil

•   Scribble Scratch Handwriting stencil

My working process is to layer with collage paper and acrylic paint and then follow up with a stencil. This helps to integrate the paper and paint into the piece.

I made some of my own art marks within the piece using a simple black ink pen and outlining the inside of stencil color (the soft turquoise in the right hand corner) and circling the polka dots on the left side. I also added some of my favorite orange washi tape and used one of my favorite watercolor crayons- yellow ochre.

I had placed the brighter color- the red rosy pink underneath so as to add some pop of color to this otherwise fairly neutral piece. This initial color choice would then help to dictate color choices I would make while working. Although I was hoping to stay fairly neutral.

One of the last layers of collage was a rectangular piece towards the top (the left edge is under the orange washi tape). I added this and then blended the paper in with a little white paint, and used my fragmented line columns stencil to finish blending in the area and overlapping just a bit below to pull the whole piece together.

Thank you so much for looking and seeing my results!

Kristin Peterson

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