Get your grunge on with Graffiti. Inspired by spray paint and street art. This big and bold stencil designed by Jane Monteith will add a cool edginess to your artwork. Great for layering and masking over pops of vibrant colors that won't go unnoticed.
Designed by Jane Monteith, Tripwire is a journey of random intuitive marks inspired by quill and ink. This stencil is a combination of larger lines flowing into thin wire like marks, making this stencil unique in all sections. Give your art lots of interest with Tripwire.
Just like scribble on paper, the Scribbley stencil by Jane Monteith creates the impression of pen marks in your artwork. Lots of quick long thin repeated lines, just like chicken scratch on a notepad.
A mini version of Graffiti, this smaller style stencil called Graffiti 2 has more ribbon like curls and twists. There is also an accompanying mask (see below). Have fun and mix it up with both versions in your artwork!
The mythology and symbolism of the Gordian Knot inspired Carolyn Dube to create this stencil collection. “Cutting the Gordian knot” represents a creative solution to a seemingly insurmountable problem because a Gordian knot has no beginning or end, representing an unsolvable problem.
In mythology, an oracle had declared that any man who could unravel the Gordian Knot was destined to become ruler of all of Asia. This knot was complex, and after hundreds of years of people trying to untie it, it hadn’t budged. Then along came Alexander the Great. He tried for some time to untangle it and then finally took his sword and cut it in half. He did go on to rule Asia so maybe that Oracle knew what she was talking about.
Designed by Carolyn Dube. These 5 quotes compliment the Gordian Knot stencils. Each is sized to fit on a standard 5x7 handmade card and can also be used in your art journals, collages, ATCs, or other creative projects.
Here’s who said each of the quotes:
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. -Jean Toomer
When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.-Reshad Feild
You can never untie the knot of true friendship.-unknown
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.-Franklin D. Roosevelt
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.-Michael Ondaatje
The Greenery Bouquets set was prompted by Rae's long-time love affair with foliage. She is known at her local florist for ordering beautiful bouquets of leafage, stem upon stem, and verdigris in the color of green. The many shapes, sizes, and shades of green that each of these stems offers are what attracted her to their leafy stalks. The many variations of the Eucalyptus, perhaps her favorite of all the green stems, inspired her to re-create unique branches, leaves, and buds, adding her own artistic twist to each one as it was designed.
Rae loves to work with both acrylic paint and watercolors as well as texture mediums with these stencils and always reaches for the masks when creating on her gel plate. She loves the pop of color that peeks through after painting over a mask in her Pocket Journal.
These tall bouquets were inspired by the clusters of Silver Dollar Gum Eucalyptus found in Rae's Greenery Bouquets. They are also known as the Argyle Apple Eucalyptus.
Rae couldn’t help but create a mini bouquet that intertwined her love of the Blue Ice Cider Gum Eucalyptus leaves with the imaginary buds that find a way into most of her work.
A stencil partner for the 6x6 bouquet mask that intertwined Rae's love of the Blue Ice Cider Gum Eucalyptus leaves with the imaginary buds that find a way into most of her work.
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Hi there! It's Marsha Valk here today with a new column!
For the past 11 years, I've started the new year creatively, spending time watching the Creative JumpStart videos and creating alongside them.
If you're reading this, you're probably familiar with Nat Kalbach's Creative JumpStart, and perhaps you've even seen me mention it before.
However, if you don't know what CJS is: it's an annual monthlong online mixed media art event meant to inspire and motivate you to get creative.
It's like an advent calendar with a new video every day in January (this time it went into February) by outstanding teachers like Mary Beth Shaw, Kristin Williams, Martice Smith, Rae Missigman, Carolyn Dube, Gwen Lafleur, Jane LaFazio, Kae Pea, Nancy Curry, Seth Apter and Tina Walker.
So on January 1st, I grabbed a new art journal and started to follow along and/or create inspired by what each teacher shared in their video.
And this year, I really took stock of what supplies I enjoyed working with, which techniques made me want to dive right in, what I liked and did not like doing and what aesthetic I liked and did not like.
I tried to create one page after watching each lesson; however, I did allow myself to skip a few. Creative JumpStart isn't a challenge, and I did not want to make it into one either.
Besides, I was in the middle of (another) studio reorganisation, which did not allow me to pull out every supply needed.
Anyway, the lessons I enjoyed most were the ones that involved painting with acrylics. You know, the kind you do with a brush and perhaps a palette knife. Which surprised me, and it's something that I could potentially explore more.
The second realisation was that I love colour (no surprise there); however, it turns out that some colours fail to make my heart sing, no matter how hard I try.
Watching the other teachers and participants use colour palettes outside my comfort zone somehow convinced me to experiment with different colours. And… it didn't work. They don't feel like 'me', and I struggle with making them look good.
So… just for my enjoyment, I decided to take cues from a vintage magazine I found while decluttering. These colour combos excite me, inspire me and make me sooo happy!
Watch me gel print with a limited 70s colour palette and StencilGirl® masks by Mary Beth Shaw and Martice Smith!
