ABC Wednesday -K and WOYWW

Today is time to share our letter of the week choice for "ABC Wednesday" - which is letter K.

K is for kitchen utensils.

I did not want to use our kitchen utensils, so I went shopping for some yesterday.And then this morning I had fun using them for printmaking. See if you can tell what I used for what making what marks.

WOYWW

I am continuing working on my printmaking course and am really enjoying it. Using kitchen utensils was just a side project for ABC Wednesday.

I used the backgrounds I had made last week for this project.

Join in the fun at "Stamping Ground" - check out work tables from all over the world.Lots of creativity abounds!


Also linking with:

Express Your Creativity

Paint Party Friday

WOYWW

It's time to share our workspaces for WOYWW, that fun meme hosted by Julia at "Stamping Ground"

On Tuesday, I had fun playing with paint and created a number of things.

I have started a free art course at Strathmore "Bold and Expressive Printmaking with Tracy Bautista andam really enjoying it so far. (I have her book and enjoy working with it)

I created some foam stamps and then did some stamping with them.

Then I did some backgrounds with the gelli plate.

And finally, did some stamping with junk (for the ABC Wednesday challenge - J was the letter of the week)

(Green was for St. Patrick's Day!)

ABC Wednesday - J is for Junk

Today at ABC Wednesday, the letter of focus is J.

J is for JUNK - that is using junk for printmaking.

Here are a few junk items I had in a tub.

I had already created the background (green for St. Patrick's Day) and then proceeded to use each piece for stamping onto the paper. Some printed much better than others. But, it was fun and relaxing.

(See if you can pick out which junk tool created which impression)

Visit here to see more ways J was chosen.

ABC Wednesday - I for Inks and WOYWW

This week at ABC Wednesday, I is the letter of focus.

I is for ink sprays.
I have several ink sprays but have not used them very much. I decided to create a background with the ink sprays (on an altered book)

(and journal)

and then I used stencils to spray some hearts.Then added some cut hearts and a quote to finish the page.

The quote is by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

WOYWW

Time to share your worktable for WOYWW - the fun meme hosted by Julia at "Stamping Ground" Join in the fun.

Here is my work table after I had glued on the quote in the altered book to the left. To the right is the journal with the second layer of stencils only. Still not sure where that is going. I should have included a photo of my fingers - a little pink and purple. Inks stain a bit!

ABC Wednesday - H and WOYWW

We have moved to H in the journey through the alphabet at ABC Wednesday.

H is for hearts

and for one of my favourite quotes by Helen Keller (that includes the word heart as well)

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Sharing our worktables each week at "Stamping Ground" is a fun meme - one that also ensures I actually get down to my worktable to do some art!

Here's the look of it after I completed the above journal page (which I had painted and shared last week). Here is the second layer of traced hearts, with my cut out painted hearts on the right, ready to be added.

Also linking with:

Creative Every Day

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Art Journal Every Day

Shadow Shot Sunday

The sun was bright on this cold morning, although not as cold as it has been and so, I got a few shadows.

Check here for shadows from around the world.

ABC Wednesday - G and WOYWW

This week at ABC Wednesday, the letter of the week is G.

Choosing the materials was easy - creating with them was a bit of a challenge.

G is for glue and glitter.

It is also that time of the week when we share our worktables at "Stamping Ground".

Creating with glue and glitter did not result in creating the wonderfull vision I had - of a colourful sunset with a river and green grass.
 I had no blue, which I really hadn't checked for before I started. No orange or yellow either. But I still had fun. Now I really have a glittery abstract(mess).

At least I used a small box to capture the extra glitter!
Glitter is one thing I refused to use in my classroom. I had known a child who got an infected eye from using glitter (not in my classroom, thankfully) and I always feared using it with so many children. The custodians hated it as well.

I also painted another background for my journal - not sure what I will create with this one yet.