At the sea mixed media tutorial

Hello crafters! On Friday we celebrated the traditional Midsummer in Sweden, with a maypole, dancing and strawberries. 

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This week we have a Vacation theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the last project by our June guest designer Kerry B.

I created a tranquil seaside scene in my art journal this week using acrylic paint and a palette knife. Being at the sea is wonderful almost any time of the year, but mostly so during summer. I made the little boats out of design tape and an old dictionary page. The dictionary page was about the sea.

I worked in my large Dylusions Journal. Start by coating the page with gesso, adding a horizon line and som gentle waves. Place cheese cloth or mummy cloth into the gesso and add more gesso on top.

When the gesso was dry, I painted the page using a palette knife and Dina Wakley's acrylic paints. Start with the beach and the sun.

Continue with the sea using shades of blue and turquoise and mixing in some white here and there.

Continue in the same way with the sky, making it lighter towards the horizon line.

Add a darker shade of turquoise at the top of the sky and towards the beach, this adds a sense of perspective. I used Dina's Ocean color. Add some Ground Espresso Distress Paint to the beach area. When the paint is dry, dabb on white to create clouds, foam and highlights.

Adhere Tim Holtz Chatter Design Tape words to heavystock paper and cut into boat shapes. Draw the sail on dictionary paper and cut out.

Stamp birds with Tim Holtz Mini Ornates and words with Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery. Add more white if needed.

Dina Wakley's acrylic paint is thicker than Distress Paint, making it easier to get these types of textured effects. 

I am very fond of repeat stamping words without reinking. 

I added shading under the boats with a black pen.

The dictionary paper is from a page about the sea, which is a nice detail. But you can use any type of old book instead.

Ink the edges of the sails and the boats slightly.

The cheese cloth gives an interesting texture to the beach.

I stamped sentiments from Tim Holtz Tiny Text on inky papers and cut into strips.

A border was drawn around the sentiments with a black pen.

It is a lot of fun to paint with a palette knife.

Using a paint brush would have given a different look to the scene.

If I wasn't working in my art journal, I might have added some real shells to the beach area, but I try to keep the pages in my journals fairly flat. 

I hope you will join us this week in our Vacation challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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