New She Art girl ....

... my little sis came to stay in half term and she was keen to do some crafting with me. She's particularly keen on mixed media canvases and so while she messed around I created a new She Art girl. I haven't done one for ages and loved the process. This was a great size to work on 4" x 12", didn't feel that I had too much space to fill.

Explore: Get Creating ...

... so today's prompt was to make something drawing on what we had learnt from the week. I decided to go with a She Art girl using the cut up map from a couple of days ago as a background.

This is the 8th girl I've made now but the first that is truely based on me.
Here you can see the map in the background.


I'm also going to make a LO at some point over the weekend with the picture I took yesterday.

More She Art ...

... I should have added to my weekend list to catch up on the She Art Workshop. I think my access runs out soon and I've still got the Week 3 videos to watch plus downloading all the pdfs.

The week 1 girls are still my favourite and I did this one for my little tweenager sis, so I've given her skinny jeans and boots. I had a much bluer canvas in my head when I started out but I love that the canvases take on a life of their own.

Layering ...

… just before Easter the supplies that I wanted to do the canvases for Lily’s room arrived. So between the two bank holidays I got to work and thought I’d document the layering process.


Background, paint and modelling paste:
Stamping:
The girls and blending:

More stamping, rubons and paint:

Working in 6x12 canvases meant that more of the background got covered by the girls than I planned. I also used some ink that bled when I mod podged, so a couple of lessons learnt!

Lily's delighted with them!

A bit of sunshine ...

... this is the third and last girl from Week 1's class. This one was the most difficult to come together, it's grungier than intended and I deliberated over the paper for her clothes. I also think she's got gorilla arms!

Hope you all have glorious sunshine for the Easter weekend, my brother and family is visiting which I'm really looking forward to.

Yes, they're addictive ...

... just as you said Steph!

Hannah - the doily on the last canvas was just a paper one I used as a stencil, nothing fancy!

She Art ...

.. my first girl.

Class started on Monday and I've watched loads of video since then. I wasn't planning on making a canvas yet as I'm waiting for some supplies to arrive - I want to make some for Lily's newly decorated bedroom - but I was just itching to start!