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Wanderlust: home on a hill

Series: Wanderlust 2021 #36 Another piece inspired by Kate Crane, this year's Wanderlust guest host. I do enjoy her way of building up backgrounds with layers of brushed paint and mark-making. The vast majority of the Wanderlust teachers work on double-page spreads in their art journals; I prefer to work on single pages and so… Continue reading Wanderlust: home on a hill

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Wanderlust: out of chaos

Series: Wanderlust 2021 #26 Some of the Wanderlust lessons can be a bit formulaic — start with collage, add paint, stencilling, focal point, more paint — but so far they've all allowed for a lot of interpretation and adaptation and the teachers all have numerous other techniques and strategies in their own work. This week's… Continue reading Wanderlust: out of chaos

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Wanderlust: butterfly in rust

Series: Wanderlust 2021 #20 This week, instead of working through the process of making a finished art journal page, Kasia demonstrated two techniques — dyeing fabric with rust and making "ink" from blueberries — and suggested a starting point for creating a page. I didn't have any blueberries in the house, but I did have… Continue reading Wanderlust: butterfly in rust