Guest Designer Frieda Oxenham

By November I think it’s justified to introduce some sparkle into your life in honour of the upcoming festivities and this is my contribution.

Here is the tutorial:

1.     Using an 8 x 10 gelli plate and a variety of different coloured metallic paints (I used Lumiere)  brayer paints onto the plate and take partial prints onto black paper sheets (mine were sized 8.5 x 11.75”). 

2.     Again using the metallic paints, brayer them onto the gelli plate. Then put stencil LL1025 Boro on Steroids on top and take partial prints onto the papers made in step 1.

3.     Using the pages from step 2 and stencils LL1028 There goes the neighbourhood Houses, LL1029 There goes the neighbourhood Towers and LL1030 There goes the neighbourhood Warehouses, mark out the various buildings on the papers using a pencil and cut out (Pic3). Do as many as you can so you have a good selection to choose from

4.     Try various lay-outs of the buildings on black pages in your art journal till you’re happy with one, take a photo of that way so you can recreate it and glue them down starting with buildings in the background and working your way to the foreground.  I used an UHU gluestick for this step but matte medium would work just as well.

5.     Outline the buildings with black and gold permanent markers (I used Posca ones).

6.     Put the house stencils from step 3 back onto your houses and add some or all of the window shapes with the gold marker 

7.     Glue on text of your choice

8.     Using stencil L856 ATC Mixup-Kerr add stars to the sky using Lumiere paints and a cosmetic wedge.

9.     Outline the stars with permanent white and sparkly blue markers.

© Frieda Oxenham, 2024