Whimsical Aliens Prompt Page and Video

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Art Journal Prompt:  Alien

 

Instructions:

Use something alien in your page.  You have a lot of options here, you can go with any meaning of the word.

Definitions of alien on the Web:

• foreigner: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
• transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
• stranger: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
• not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
• estrange: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
• extraterrestrial being: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
• being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"

 

Example Page:

 

  

 

How this example was done:

Here’s the video of how I did my page:

 

First step – Background.  Painted it all black.  I love doing that.. not sure why. Next I put on strips of book pages with gel medium and scrubbed some color on with a sponge. Then I outlined each strip with a blue inktense pencil and set/smudged the ink with a wet brush.

Second step – Figures.  I really didn’t have a plan but I put on some yellow ovals and it gave me the idea to paint some little aliens on the pages. I painted my alien family with liquid acrylics, inktense pencils and neocolors.  They are rough and painterly and just whimsical and fun.

 

 

Supplies used today:

• masking tape
• neocolor II water-soluble crayons
• liquid acrylic paint
• inktense pencils
• gel medium

 

A Word from Tee:

We are a bit late today… not feeling well.  That’s going to happen from time to time as we go through the year.  Thank you so much for all the texts, emails and notes of concern that I’ve received this morning.  You guys rock!  If I didn’t respond to you yet – it’s because I was working on this page and video.

I’m teaching whimsical faces this weekend at Art Café.  Let me know if you’d like to join me so I can put together a kit for you.

 

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