Julie Fei Fan Balzer has a new line of stencils out and that equals Blog Hop! I played with Stars and Circles with an unexpected result.
I started out by laying the larger-sized stencil on the page and spraying it with inks. A couple of different warm colors (yellow and red). I just went with the next thing that occured to me which was some portfolio smearing and then some gesso down the center of the page.
Adding a bit of marker and pencil defines some of the stenciled areas. Before I knew it, triangles began to "spin off" of the main imagery. I created the spinning wheel by tracing around the stencil with a waterproof pen onto a piece of watercolor paper, then drew out from the center of the stencil with more black pen.
A bit of brainstorming for activities to fill in the wheel, then watercolor and more pen.
Spin Off: a game to play when you are feeling lost for ideas. Spin the wheel, follow the activity, another spin and add more, etc.
For more Stencil Hop fun, look at these links today!
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/2012/05/stencil-hop-stars-circles.html
Karen Grunberg
http://www.karenika.com/archives/23569
Christine Urias
http://scraptime.ca/blogpage/
May Flaum
http://mayflaum.com/
Ali Edwards
http://aliedwards.com/blog
Alisa Burke
http://alisaburke.blogspot.com/
