Recycled book Dayplanner/Journal - 2014

Wow, this was a great project to work on

but my goodness it took time to make it!

Waiting and watching paint drying only makes it take 

twice as long to dry i'm sure! 

I did help it along a bit with my trusty heat tool,

but you have to be patient when working with old book pages, 

they are so dry that they suck up a great deal of the paint, and retain moisture

but i wanted the finished pages to be a bit firm so

I chose specially old books with thick pages.

I mean you couldn't have a dayplanner with flimsy pages, 

it just wouldn't do!

I tryed to document the 'birth' of my planner, and for once whilst

 making a project i think I've managed to capture each stage! 

Could it be cos I am super eager to use my 

Canon EOS 7D

and my gifted  

to dye for  

Canon EF 50mm

ILOVEIT!!

This might be my longest post to date...

SO get your scroller finger ready 

for a workout! 

(want to see an image larger? 

just click on it ;O)

 

well that was my 2.5 inch thick (!) dayplanner.

I ended up using 3 old books and had to really rack my brains

as to how to hold it all together.

Its so damn thick! 

I had orginally decided to use my bind-it-all machine 

but soon found out that the biggest spirals they 

make for the Bind-it-all where going to be WAY too small.

I considered splitting it up into 2 or 4 parts for the 1 year,

but decided it would be easier to keep control 

over dates etc if it was kept as 1 book.

SO the search began to find binding rings that were large enough.....

....not something I manged to source nearby i hastend to add!

These well traveled 3.5 inch puppies arrived on my doorstep the other day

sent all the way from HONG KONG baby!

(and here was I trying to be green!).

Now i'm looking forward to decorating each and every one of the 365 pages,

I'm hoping my boys will help me too.

(A fun way of keeping track of how much they improve on their

writing and drawing skills throughout the year).

Thats all for now folks,

thanks for stopping by :O)

Nina x

Gallery Exhibition - Ås Togstasjon - Norway.

This time i'm posting about an Exhibition 

myself and 2 girlfriends are 

holding at the moment at the 

trainstation cafe in Ås, Norway.

It's an exhibition of acrylics/mixed media 

on canvas and Photography.

We held the vernisasje on Sunday (the 1st of September).

It was so nice to see lots of familiar friendly faces 

who had taken the trip to come join us and have a look.

Some paintings and photos were sold too, an extra bonus.

 So if you are in the area, do drop in.

The Cafe has a charming atmosphere, 

with tasty food and good coffee!

There is also a darling shop on the second floor 

thats worth a visit.

Art Journal Nr 4

I said I was going to post about this Art journal 

ages ago, well here it is.

I made my new Art Journal out of a old childrens 
book I picked up at a 

secondhand shop a while back.

As I tend to take my journals around with me on holiday etc

I opted to decortate the cover flat 
ie nothing sticking out that could get 

ripped of when taking it in and out of my bag.

I used different washi tapes in strips 
all over the from and back cover.

I had decided to use clear rock candy on the title part,  

to give it a glazed slightly crackled effect

over where I stamped ...

.....'ART JOURNAL'

So I stamped and painted on the rock candy

and whilst it was drying the ink from the stamp started bleeding!

Only slightly at first and then more and more!

So I quickly scraped off the rock candy before it was completly dry and hard,

and just restamped the words.

As you can see some of the rock candy had 
dryed around the edges, 

which I think gives a cool effect as

a kind of shabby frame. 

I rubbed distress ink into the cracks to make them more visible.

The last thing I did was to paint over the washi tape 

with thinned down gesso to 'dampen' the colours of the wasi tape, 

giving it an overall more uniform and shabby look.

I love the tall shape of this journal. 

It measures 13x23cm.

I'll post some of the first pages soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Nina x

 

Mixed media lerret 15x15cm. 'Love'.

I just had to make a smaller size canvas to go with 

the bigger one in my last post.

I think they would look nice together on a wall.

This one is size 15 x 15cm. 

As you can see i have built this one up a bit more using letters, 

hearts and a swirly paper edge, 

still sticking to that lovley

'marshmallow and chai latte, mellow' 

paint palet.

(Click on the photo for a larger image)

Mixed Media Lerret 30x30cm 'Things I want to do with you'.

I love the colours on this canvas I painted, 

I was mixing and adding dabs of this and that 

and the result in my eyes is so mellow! 

Theres something saying 'marshmallows and Chai Latte' to me here!

Dose anybody else see that?!

(click on the photo to see a larger image)

 

Those lovley bright splashes of dark turquoise

are actually fabric paints from Panduro.

The 'Things I want to do with you' text is 

 a serviette that I decoupaged on top using matt glue.

I used hobby paint with white crackle paint over it

 on some watercolour paper 

before cutting out the hearts from it,

they are a bit shiney and therfore give another texture

which is hard to see in this photo. 

 I used touches of gold paint and stamped with 
Vibeke Spigseths rubber stamps in random places,

and circles created with modeling paste.

The lerret is size 30 x 30cm

Mixed media Lerret 30 x 30 cm. 'Life is just another journey'.

I guess it must have been Easter that has inspired me to use 

this bright and happy yellow colour on this canvas.

Not to everyones taste i'm sure,

it was a bit 'out of the box' for me too,

but i am pleased with the result.

This time I used an old road map that I ripped up and glued on before 

I started painting with my acrylics,
and adding random stamped writing from 
Vibeke Spigseths collection. 

With the map, travel and journeys 

in mind the theme of the canvas came about.

And my dreams of travelling continue...

Mixed Media Lerret 15 x 15 cm. 'Houses in a row'

I've painted a smaller canvas here 15x15cm 

using the same tecnique of gluing on old book 

pages before painting with acrylic paint,

giving an interesting texture to the background 

sometimes you can see some of the text or music notes 

where I have scraped away the paint before it drys.

I'm all about texture, I love it! 

The numbers stand slightly proud of the canvas.

I made them using a stencil from 

Dylusions and modeling paste. 

The hot air balloon i cut from Vibeke Spigseths 

new collection of design papers.

The houses are plywood embelishments that i painted with 

acrylic paint, and glues on.

(click on the pictures for a larger images).