Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
When I saw Mindy Egan's Abstract Art for Clean & Simple Cards video I knew I had to see what was in my stash to create abstract cards with. As I shopped my stash, I remember the Taylored Expressions Abstract stencils and stamps set I had. I also pulled out my Tim Holtz flower Garden stamp set.
I picke a few Distress Inks to build a bright pallet that would lend itself to a modern floral pattern. The colors I chose to work with were Salvaged Patina, Squeezed Lemonade, and Twisted Citron.
Working with the large semicircle stencil I began my pattern with Salvaged Patina. I pulled the smaller more jelly bean-shaped stencil for Twisted Citron and completed my ink blending with a second smaller semi-circle and Squeeze Lemonade.
After laying down my colors for a border selected the more open large petal flower from the Flower Garden stamp set. I added them in a pattern that would overlap more than one color as well as leave a bit of white space in the petals. Then I added the abstract leaf from the Taylored Expressions set.
To complete the panel I stamped a sentiment from the Taylored Expressions set. Then die cut the panel with my Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles. I adhered the completed panel to a white card base. In the end, I have a nearly one-layer card with a lot of color and depth.
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