tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57884287747542957312024-02-18T23:52:23.323-05:00Gypsy Gator A completely random rambleLuLu Badgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428873264537512335noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788428774754295731.post-62108623299368730602019-09-02T19:27:00.002-04:002019-09-02T19:33:26.939-04:00Mixed Media Mayhem - A Layer aDay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been participating in France Papillon’s A Layer a Day Challenge. It has been fun to respond to the open ended prompts she provides. I am months behind, but I want to post these entries for my record.<br />
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LuLu Badgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428873264537512335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788428774754295731.post-18870748241015664322019-09-02T19:04:00.000-04:002019-09-02T19:04:06.656-04:00Mixed Media Mayhem. - Indian Memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When I traveled to India in 2017, I was overcome by the color explosion. I took thousand of photographs, collected detritus, bought handmade paper, and bargained for sets of pigments. Upon returning I used the materials to inspire a gell printing class in my home studio. A fun thing to do was to cut masks and to make foam stamps with Indian images.<br />
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LuLu Badgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428873264537512335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788428774754295731.post-1309013444812288162017-07-27T11:58:00.000-04:002017-07-27T12:00:11.170-04:00Mixed Media Mayhem - Art Journal Backgrounds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Playing with art supplies is one of my favorite pastimes. Since it is too hot to enjoy most other activities, I have stuck to my studio to fling paint around. With no end in mind, I can print, stamp, swipe, stencil, silkscreen to make blank pages ready for art journaling at a future time. Here are some of my experiments with some close-up details. <br />
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LuLu Badgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428873264537512335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788428774754295731.post-11178617245960412462017-07-19T10:45:00.001-04:002017-07-19T10:45:42.016-04:00Mixed Media Mayhem - Portraits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This post is inspired by the bloggers at <a href="http://moo-mania.blogspot.co.at/?m=1" target="_blank">Moo Mania</a> with their theme Africa. The first image is<br />
a drawing I made from a Pinterest post and colored with Distress Crayons and Gelatos. Hair, as always proved difficult. After I finished, I imported the image to my IPhone to apply various apps. The one here looks like a wax print. Image Two is a spread using various stash items about Egypt. I made a polymer clay plaque, embossed it with stamps and textures, antiqued it with dark umber acrylic paint rubbed off. I broke it in half to glue on each side. For the remainder of the page I used modeling paste with stamps and colored pencils. Image three is part of a series I have been making about travel destinations, some of which I have reached and some I only dream about. I used commercial scrapbook paper in my stash and images from <a href="https://www.gct.com/" target="_blank">Grand Circle Travel's</a> brochure. (For group tours, they are tops). I enjoy working on challenges presented by other artists on social media. <a href="http://froebelsternchen.blogspot.com/2017/07/post-no2152-mm-ajj.html" target="_blank">froebelsternchen.blogspot.com</a>, <a href="http://moo-mania.blogspot.co.at/" target="_blank">Moo Mania Design Group</a></div>
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LuLu Badgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428873264537512335noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788428774754295731.post-31428731190485333182017-07-08T13:06:00.002-04:002017-07-08T13:06:57.886-04:00Mixed Media Mayhem - Color Stories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been neglecting my blog, and I miss my social media contacts. I am adding this post to show what I have been up to lately. <br />
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Here is a page from my Color Stories Journal. <br />
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I have used the selected color scheme, this time from an article in Somerset Studio Magazine. I made a collage of the magazine images to use the colors and themes to challenge my creation.<br />
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The first image is the collage of magazine images. The color story for this challenge is Turquoise, Yellow, Copper, and Black.<br />
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LuLu Badgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428873264537512335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5788428774754295731.post-84834079045994455532016-04-16T00:13:00.001-04:002016-04-18T11:56:57.696-04:00Mixed Media Mayhem - Fishes in the Sea - Digital Journal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Techniques from Sebastian at Photoshop Artistry and images from Graphics Fairy combine with my collection of textures, brushes, papers, and backgrounds by itKuPiLLi_ShabbyCrackedPack. Blending modes and layer masks key to assembly.<br />
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For this composition I drew on my own photo, textures, torn paper and ephemera to create the old grungy look.<br />
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What happens if I don't have access to physical materials, turn to the digital magic of Photoshop. I just finished taking an online course, Photoshop Artistry, to learn how to better use layer blends, masks, textures, and text. I have access to Graphics Fairy with all the wonderful images to choose. It seems like an endless source but I finally chose birds.<br />
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I love flea markets...I always head to booths that sell old books, papers, postcards, stamps, and other vintage printed materials. With photo apps and Photoshop, I can create these images in the virtual world of digital imaging. In this exercise I used a slightly out of focus picture of the riverfront in Porto, Portugal. <br />
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On my recent trip to Spain and Portugal, I did not take my usual assortment of cameras, lenses, image cards, and accessories. Instead, I relied on my new IPhone 6s and apps for photo editing. For example, I took a classic photo of the riverfront in Porto...a photo that everyone who visits this city has probably made. I experimented with a number of apps including Distressed FX, PS Express, and Photo Lab to get my own interpretation. I like the way the apps brought out the blues in the small boat in the foreground and gave the bridge a luminosity. Additionally with the application of the apps, the lines of the boat's rigging are more visible. The overall effect I hoped for was to put the photo in a historical context.<br />
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Having been away from my studio for some time, I have turned to digital image making to fill that void of art withdrawal. I have always loved Photoshop for my photo editing providing that replacement for the darkroom, multiple lenses, and filters. I used these traditional tools to prepare the images "Seeking Light" and "Self Reflection" that were juried into the Indian River County Photo Club show at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. I was delighted to receive Second Place Award in the <i>People</i> category.<br />
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I am sure I am not alone in the world of art journaling in my reluctance to share my work with drawing faces. The focus of this month's challenge in the Documented Life Project is faces, creating characters. Starting with drawing eyes in "I Can See Clearly" through the month, I was liberal with my interpretation of the art tasks and journal prompts to keep it fun and experimental.<br />
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<span class="s1">With the prompts of "at this moment" and "real life" I decided to use papers around my desktop to make this journal page. A friend, who is also downsizing but stops at my house on the way, left me some beautiful calendars. I used a punch to cut consistently sized squares and circles, arranged them to accent the colors, and journaled between the lines. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">For this journal entry I pulled out a collection of photographs of my mother at different ages, sized them and arranged them on a page prepped with a crackle technique.</span></div>
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Because I am working on several projects using ephemera and I am sorting out my stash, I had a huge bin of papers, newspaper, advertisements, lucky paper, incense labels, etc, from my several trips to China. <a href="http://www.arttothe5th.com/journal/2015/4/1/the-original-documented-life-project-july-11-challenge" target="_blank">This Documented Life Challenge</a>, July 11, calling for ephemera, provided another place to "use it up, wear it out, ..." After joyously pasting down layers of paper materials I turned to developing the focal point. I came across a haiku type poem I had written when I was landing in Shanghai so I decided to memorialize it here. <br />
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<span class="s1">I had all my travel ephemera out for last month's challenge. As I sorted sundry pieces into categories, I became distracted by all the stories they told. To continue engagement with all these goodies, I decided to use them to meet the ephemera challenge.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Baggage tags, tickets, dinner receipts, key cards, labels, dried flower, and lots of translucent receipts from shopping provided materials for a background. After I arranged and glued everything, I added some chop stamps, and a silkscreen I made from a vintage Chinese book.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This collection of ephemera goes back at least twenty years, and it reflects many of my foreign adventures that define me, hence the title, "Life with a History."</span></div>
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Working in my colour journal using Somerset Studio's, <i>With One Palette, </i>I was inspired by the challenge on <a href="http://art-journal-journey.blogspot.co.at/">http://art-journal-journey.blogspot.co.at/</a> , TIME. I used paint, sequin waste as a stencil, magazine pages, scrapbook paper, dylusion inks, and an ad from National Geographic. <br />
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Yesterday I booked a winter trip to Spain and Portugal. I have been thinking about this destination for a long time, but I was apprehensive because of my past experiences. In August, 2000, I stopped in Madrid for a few days on my way to Gwen Gibson's workshop in the South of France. Off to a bad start with Iberia misplacing my luggage, I was determined to enjoy my first visit to Spain. I took a walk to Puerta del Sol and the surrounds to gather my thoughts.<br />
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I strolled past a fire station and turned into a brightly lit square. With foot steps behind me and two figures in front of me, I knew I was in trouble. Swiftly I was thrown to the ground, hitting my head, breaking my glasses, and banging my nose. One attacker used his knife to cut off my neck pouch, catching my neck with his stroke. A resident ran out to my aid and took me to the hospital and to the police station. No passport, money, travelers checks, credit cards, id, glasses, or lipstick, I had my work cut out for me to put myself back together. Iberia found my luggage, my daughter sent me money, Citibank sent me a new credit card, and I shopped for lipstick. I completed my trip, and I had a brilliant time with Gwen and other artists even though I could not see what I was doing.<br />
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Making this journal page was about the documents. Cutting, arranging, pasting these original materials to the page really proved the benefit of journaling. Talking therapy, but to myself. My final page is as chaotic as the experience. Flaps open to hold more documentation, different passport pics show contrasts, messiness reveal my thinking.<br />
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Browsing through my Google posts, I visited the blog, <a href="http://froebelsternchen.blogspot.com/">http://froebelsternchen.blogspot.com</a>/, to see all that she has been up to recently. She is a prolific artist who posts to many challenge blogs. I was interested to see her link to <a href="http://letsgetshabby.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/challenge-66.html">http://letsgetshabby.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/challenge-66.html</a>, where the challenge this month is to "do what you can with a kraft coloured paper bag." <br />
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This challenge gave me the inspiration I need to finishing a page in my colour journal where I am focusing on the color families featured in <a href="https://stampington.com/somerset-studio" target="_blank">Somerset Studio</a>'s "With One Palette." For the cherry red, blue, and kraft I created a collage on a background prepared from the paper bag. I love the look and feel of the kraft paper when it is saturated with matte medium.<br />
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The challenge posed by this month's theme, <i>Travel Journaling, </i>was perfect for me. I could do this forever. Having traveled near and far my whole life, I have many memories to draw on. These memories are documented in thousands of photos and bins of memorabilia (and a huge collection of folk art). I have two giant bins of newspapers, magazines, and labels from China alone. I try to make a book using BookSmart after each journey, but as with everything else, I am behind.</div>
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My last big trip was to celebrate my birthday traveling to Turkey and the Greek Islands. I spent over a week in Istanbul which gave me lots of time to walk the city or take the tram to more distant locations. Shopping in the Grand Bazaar, the Curcurcuma antique district, or the Ortaköy district, my favorite finds were old postcards and photographs. For this journal entry, Illustrative Art Journaling, I chose several of my most representative postcard images. To make these more my own, I photocopied and transfered them to my journal page using gel medium. I sealed my journal pages first with a coat of matte medium. A green scubby sponge works well to work the paper off of the transfers.</div>
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I always have several journals working at once. This page is from my "Use it Up" book where I clean brushes and stencils and collect ephemera and detritus from other journals. I wanted to use up the blank left over after I punched out an alphabet, so I stuck them down to a page where I had cleaned up from some Dylusions. </div>
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To try to unify this mess I dry brushed with heavy white gesso, a favorite art supply.</div>
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What next? Looking at my confused color palette led me to my paper stash. Every time I go to <a href="http://www.papersource.com/item/Cavallini-Tea-Sweets-Gift-Wrap-Pack/3400_003/9781619923324.html" target="_blank">Paper Source</a>, I buy some of their beautiful paper...then just look at it. I decided in my "use it up" mood to cut up one of the vintage tea wrapping paper and paint over the cups to match my background. I added the tea pot from the packaging of the Publix tea bags, and the steam from a piece of chipboard.</div>
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<span class="s1">This week's challenge was indeed that. Although I love using textured paper, purchased or hand made, the prompt did not inspire me. I think of my journal as a place for positive declarations or lessons learned, but I did muddle through.</span></div>
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I started with textured paper gifted to me by friend and fellow hoarder, Lowry Smathers, and supplemented with cheesecloth I still had on my desk from the previous week's challenge.</div>
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I dyed the cheesecloth with TintIt spray dye, and I used gel medium to form the strips into stylized flowers.</div>
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I love to work in my garden, but the heat this summer has made it impossible after 10:00 a.m. "Not feeling" up to work outside, I brought my flowers inside to my journal page. I used the "stems" as the journaling guideline.</div>
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Although my flowers are not fine art, I had fun manipulating the materials to suggest blossoms. </div>
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The challenge continues the quest for texture by suggesting cheese cloth for the art technique and "say cheese" for the journal. I wanted to use the cheese cloth to bring some dimension to a portrait of a women from my practice book. In teaching myself to draw, I have found the hardest part seems creating a natural mouth. I want this woman to smile. Everybody looks better smiling. I used a photocopy of my drawing to create the image and the dyed cheesecake for drama (I used a new product, Tint It Spray Dye Paint, which I love because it does not interact with liquids once it is dry)</div>
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