Hi everyone, it's Nikki from Addicted to Art with you today, and I'm here to share a piece of Wall Art using new stamps from Tracy Scott.
These stamps are ideal for our current topic of Pattern Play. I decided I wanted to incorporate one of the new stencils as well, so chose to create a paint stencilled background with the stamp images collaged on top.
I used a restricted palette - creating different 'tones' of the same colour by adding white and black. (Adding black is called a Shade, adding white is called a Tint.)
Firstly I painted the panel black all over. The stencil contains several 'pie quarter' shapes, which can be used in many ways - including making a full circle. I started each quarter with my palest colour in the middle (Blue Jeans + Snowflake), then Blue Jeans, and finally Blue Jeans + Black towards the edges.
If you would like to see this process in more detail - there is a short video below.
You can see my sponging of colour is not perfect! The wooden panel isn't a smooth surface so if you are doing on paper it should be a little easier - but either way - with the additional layers that follow, you will soon see - it really doesn't need to be perfect!
The next step was to create my pattern of stamped images - to go on top of the stencilled panel. I felt I needed to do this BEFORE adding additional colour / highlights to the background - so that I highlighted the correct areas.
I stamped quite a few images from Tracy Scott stamp sets 66 and 68. (TS066 and TS068) (see the new post showing her new sets here).
This allowed me to play with patterns! Here is another one I am playing with - this helps me decide where I need to add some white and coloured highlights over my paint (and where I would be wasting my time as it is going to be covered up!)
Once I had decided on my pattern I added some shading and highlights with Prismacolour Premier coloured pencils in Light Aqua and True Green along with a Posca Pen in white.
Finally I added colour to my stamped images for my focal pattern using the same colour pencils.
These curved stamps are amazing - 4 of them fit perfectly to make a circle and the little flower is great on its own!
To finish, I adhered my shapes to the wooden panel.
When I get some new stamps, especially ones like this - I do like to stamp and fussy cut them out - this allows me to play around with patterns and shapes. I might take a photo of something and then that leads to me to trying something else.
Tracy is absolutely amazing at bringing you designs that are deliberately 'open', so that you can do many different things with them. Not only within these new sets, but with her back-catalogue too! Mix and match, layer and so on.
Tracy always 'wows' us with the basic patterns she creates, and in this post, she shares a lot of those initial experiments in B&W so that you can see exactly the type of combinations possible.
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Hi everyone, Tracy here
I'm here today to share with you my latest new release for PaperArtsy and the first one for 2022...
Today I have 3 sets of stamps and 3 stencils to share with you and I hope you love them all as much as I do.
So as most of you know (and of course for those who don't !) ... very often, when I receive new stamps I like to have a play with them in my sketchbook, just to get a feel for them and see what they can do. My 3 sets today were no exception, so I'm going to show you some of my sketchbook play and then some projects that I created with each set of stamps and then we will move on to the stencils.....
So grab a cuppa or a glass of something nice and read on for some creative inspiration...
Price: RRP €21.92 +VAT Size:5" x 6" (13 x16.5cm)
All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam with a laminated storage/index sheet.
Tracy Scott Set 066 (TS066)
When I started designing this set, my initial thought was architectural medallions. I have long admired that kind of design on and in older buildings and was something I had thought about exploring for quite some time.
But of course, as often happens, my ideas went in a slightly different direction. Once I had designed a couple of medallions my mind started to think about how they would work in my art journal and how to get the most use out of them...
In my new product FB lives, I often share my initial pattern play ideas with new stamps, so before I share some actual samples, here are just some of the pages I made when testing out these new designs. I will often stumble across a pattern I had no idea would be possible!
So let's take a look at what happens when you add colour to the image, and place them on a painted, stencilled background. You can add depth shading and really emphasise the patterns so clearly.
Tracy Scott Set 067 (TS067)
My initial thoughts for this set was to create a butterfly mandala.... I love butterflies and I love a mandala right!... so it seemed the obvious choice!
And then I thought that would be a real waste as you would only get one or two stamps in the whole set (first world problems I know!!) so I started thinking about how I could achieve what I wanted and give maximum amount of options at the same time....
Tadaaaa I give you the butterfly mandala sections!!! Genius right (even if I do say do myself hahahahaha!)
These can be used to create mandalas, patterns and used on their own as simple butterfly focal stamps...
I am in love with this set..... and as you will see the patterns that emerge are so beautiful!
Once again, when you add colour the magic starts to happen...
Or, sticking with the elegant black and white idea, look at how one of the butterflies can be used alone as the focal point...
Tracy Scott Set 068 (TS068)
My final set of stamps for this release... fancy circles!! Yes I know we all love a circle don't we?.. well I do anyway.
I wanted to create a set of circle frames and then as I started to design the idea started to change shape.....
So I ended up with interchangeable circles, can be used as frames, to create patterns, or just stackable circle elements..... I really love the versatility of this set....
I love this black white and gold combo, the embossing powders add a nice shine along with the gold !
Large Stencil Size: 6.25" x 9.5" (16 x 24cm) Price: RRP €6.28 +VAT
PaperArtsy Stencil 305 (PS305)
This is the first of my stencils for this release and we are going with a floral theme for this one.
I had a specific idea in mind when designing this one, I wanted to be able to not only use it as a regular stencil but wanted to be able to use it as a doodling template!.... I love to doodle flowers and rather than create stamps which would only give one option for each shape, I decided that basic flower shapes n different sizes would work perfectly to add endless visual possibilities...
I had so much fun playing with this one...
Using the stencil as a template is a wonderful way to start your doodles...
PaperArtsy Stencil 306 (PS306)
Next up we have the half-petal stencil.... Again I've kept the openings nice and big so that they can be used as a template for doodling, colouring or cutting and of course by only creating a half stencil means that by flipping it around I can create something twice the size, and having the extra larger petals too means that it can be extended out even further.
PaperArtsy Stencil 307 (PS307)
So my last stencil for this new release is a quarter mandala stencil.... well actually it's four quarter mandala stencils!
Again the idea was that if I only create a quarter of the pattern onto the stencil then each piece can be used to build up larger designs.
Of course they can be used as a regular stencil with paints, grunge past etc but of course as always I like to thing of other ways my products can be used.
This one works well for drawing, doodling and as a cutting template for those lace look journal pages or cards....
Fresco Price: RRP €4.58 +VAT Size:50ml
As a reminder, here are the 24 shades in Tracy's Fresco Paint line...
Thank you so much for joining me again for the latest release, I truly appreciate your being here and don't forget that I will be going 'live' in the PaperArtsy People Facebook Group at 7:30PM BST to share these samples and maybe a few more!!!
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