Buried Treasure

My internet friend Seth Apter over at The Altered Page is doing a collaborative project called "Buried Treasure" in which invites bloggers to find special features of their past blog entries and repost their favorite posts. I have started blogging relatively recently so my favorite post is actually a very recent post. I have very recently taken up being creative and expressing myself through "art". I actually believe I did was not fully aware of how important creating and expressing myself until I took Mary Ann Moss's "Pure Experimentation: Stencilry" class over on Dispatch From LA. It freed me of many of my fears of color, and and my need for perfection. It allowed me to just play... And it freed me to fail and just spray over something I did not like and start all over again from the same piece of paper. More importantly it is just plain and simple fun in the sun... Increasingly these spray paint art features are becoming more and more personal for me.

Here is the original post "This is a some artwork done with a stencil I cut of an old picture of my Great Grandpa Barley on my father's side. I still need to do some work on it and I need to get better at scanning these but you get the idea..."

This time I have decided to include the original photo of my great grand father Barley.

My blog has led me to make some amazing artist friends I may never meet but their support is very important to me. Thank you for stopping by.

Family Stencils Part 1

The first of my hand cut stencils in my Family Series. This is of my sister Sheila, it is her high school graduation portrait. I will probably recut it again I was not too happy how her right eye turned out. I have not had time to do anything creative in a while so it felt good to do some spray painting.

I certainly enjoy spray painting in my beautiful back yard on a nice summer evening.

Great Grandpa Barley!

This is a some artwork done with a stencil I cut of an old picture of my Great Grandpa Barley on my father's side. I still need to do some work on it and I need to get better at scanning these but you get the idea...

Please Mum, could I have some more...

I sleepie.... I have to go to work.... For you here is some more of my stencil art. We are learning how to cut sun rays. I also cut the California Republic stencil. I am learning how to use a stencil burner, and by accident how hot they are... OUCH!!! DO NOT TRY THAT @ HOME!!! Take my word for it.

Some will have more added to them but I wanted to post more... These are actually going to all be part of an art journal. I need to add a bit more stuff to time and a bit of journaling.

Have a great weekend!

It is what's inside that counts...

At last working on some stencil journal pages... I love exploring more color and making "mistakes"... enjoy. I took advantage of our 99 degree weather yesterday and did a LOT of spraying. The bottom two pics use my first hand cut stencil. Wonder who that character is?