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Hello again folks! Today I have the start of a 3 part series to share with you. I’m working on a Triptych (3 paneled) piece for my wall and thought I would break it down into detailed sections to show you more info. The first one (which you’ll see today) will end up being the middle piece. The other two panels and videos will come in the next posts I do here on the Artist Gang blog. The beginning may not look like much, but the end result is so fabulous… so be sure to keep coming back to vis...

Artist Gang Tuesday...

its all in the details with Nika's pretty Mixed-Media kitty!

supplies

190g watercolor paper covered with gesso dylusions paints graphite pilot 0.7 black permanent pen pilot 0.5 black permanent pen inktense pencils neocolors II gelatos white sharpie pen number repetitive stencil mini numbers repeat stencil damask stencil art & possibility stamp ranger black archival ink water brush

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Donna’s gorgeous stencils and stamps are so inspiring! This art journal spread was inspired by beautiful stencil "Collage Portrait”, it’s beautiful and easy to use. I used this stencil together with black gesso and black embossing powder. It creates beautiful, shiny layer, so different than acrylic paint on the paper. I Mixed pink and beige and gold Hades to create delicate and girly background. It created amazing contrast with black shapes and patterns. I used "Chicken coop” stencil to crea...

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Mixed-Media Elephant with Nika!

Supplies Used

Canvas Tim Holtz mélange tissue paper matt medium Gesso White fluid acrylic paint Dylusions paints Edding 8400 black permanent marker Pilot 0.5 black permanent pen White sharpie Neocolors II Golden fluorescent fluid acrylics Halftone dots stencil Mini numbers repeat stencil Grass stencil Flourish #1 stencil Garden table stencil Art & possibilities stamp set Black archival ink Glossy accents Tim Holtz mini blending tool

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Hi everyone! I’m really excited to share today’s post with you. I’m using the underpaper from my art journal page last week to create a set of 9 Affirmation ATCs utilizing Donna’s Bloom Group stencil and Imperfect is Beauty stamp set. A few include some fibers, a few some stitching and a few just some fun stamp placements.

Supplies:
Donna Downey Signature Stencil : Bloom Group
Donna Downey Signature Stamp : Imperfection is Beauty
Liquitex Gesso
Ranger Ink : Black Soot Archival
May Arts : C...

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Hellllloooo mixed media fans! Thanks for joining on my second post today. I’d like to share with you an art journal spread utilizing some of my favorite techniques. Keep an eye out through the video… the under paper on this project turns out SO fun… I’ll be utilizing it next week in my post.

The project itself is plenty fun to make but after I was done having fun it occurred to me that this piece of art would make a great journal cover and or it could be fabulous trimmed up into ATCs, pos...

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