Things Are Sometimes Black And White

Hi again !

Well... we made it through Monday, didn't we? WHEW .... another week has begun.

Last night after I clocked off of work, I checked my net world for a few, fed myself even though I wasn't really hungry and almost took a nap. I wanted too, I felt like I needed one, but this time, I resisted. I kept trying to think of things that would perk me up, because for real, there is so much that needs to be done and then there is so much I want to do. It was nearly dizzying trying to figure out where to start. Some laundry needed to be folded, the dishwasher needed to be loaded, the vanity in the loo needed a good wiping down... and so on and so on....

.....so of course I went over to my art desk, put on my apron, looked around and thought.... what's next ?? 🤣

Before I get into that part, isn't this neat? This is a piece of a brown paper bag that I had under my art that I made last night. After I used a stencil, I would lay it here and take a dry sponge and wipe off all the excess paint I could. I would drag the sponge across the stencil and it would pull the paint into the open spaces, making their design there too. I did not stencil directly on this paper. Afterwards I thought it had a little bit of a graffiti vibe. Is it just me ??

Anyway, throughout the videos that I've been watching many of the other people doing collages or mixed media pieces of some kind, nearly always want some sort of black design somewhere for contrast or the such. I hadn't made anything much black, so I decided last night would be a black and white session.

I pulled out 4 or 5 different types of paper and cut them in half instead of doing whole sheets this time. I painted the first piece completely black and on a second sheet, I just added some swishes of black. I knew when these two dried, I would do something else too them.

Later, this is what I stenciled with white, over the solid black sheet above. I'll show you what I did with the other one later. As you can see, I used my favorite stencil on the left. It was not big enough to do the whole sheet, so I chose the circle stencil to fill in the other side of the paper.

I started making circles on this one with a gallon water jug lid.

It turned out like this. Simple, but some torn or cut parts of it might make an interesting tidbit on some piece later.

I did this one also with an oval highlighter cap and a square lipstick top.

I play wrote with a calligraphy pin that had a little blue in the cartridge. There wasn't much left though. Then I tried to dip the nib in black paint and write too, but that didn't work so hot. LOL

Later I stenciled the slanted design over it. I like seeing some writing between the lines. I might have to get more cartridges for the pin. It might come in handy later.

More stencil'y fun.

Now back to this one.....

I stenciled black overlapping ovals in white down part of the left side. Then at the bottom I finished out in pink, because I was curious how that would work. I didn't like it ! Not even a little part of it.

I added water to the little bit of black paint that was in a cup and lightly black-washed the whole thing to see if it would help. It might have helped it a little. Not sure what kind of weird piece any part of it would go one.... but there it is. The good thing is, just because I make a painty paper, doesn't mean I ever really have to use it. Thank goodness !

I stopped around 9:45 and here are the papers as a group.

A shot of my work area after I stood up, with the fun residual designs on the brown paper and the black and white painty papers across the back.

When I finished my playing, I rescued the brown paper from the desk so I wouldn't get anything else on it. I don't know what I will use it for later, but maybe something will come to mind.

Hope everyone's week started well and the rest of it is amazing.

Love you ! ❤️

Jacey