365 day art challenge: Week 26, ICAD week 5, and more

BEWARE, this is a VERY LONG POST!

Here are my collages for Week 26.  This 365 something project was created in part and hosted by Hanna at i Hanna. 

Additionally, for the next two months, I am sharing my Index Cards or ICADs that are hosted by Tammy at Daisy Yellow.  The collage cards will always come first and the ICADs will be second.  

In case you missed them, here are Week 25's cards.  As I'm sure you know by now, I post every Monday morning for the previous week.  However, tomorrow is the 2nd of the month where we share a post that we have shown in the past, so I am posting these today.  All my collages are 4" X 4" (10,16 cm X 10,16 cm).  All my index cards are 3 x 5 inches (76.2 x 127 mm).

Snowmobile prototype

F

Sing me a song

Boundary dispute

Dot-Dash-Dot

The start of a crossword puzzle

The I's of March

These are my ICADs for Week 5

Day 25

Day 26

Day 27

Day 28

Day 29

Day 30

Day 31

Here are the ICADs I made in June:

June, 2018

We also have a new host beginning today at Art Journal Journey. Please welcome my dear friend Chris whose blog is Pear Shaped Crafting.  Her theme is Art for art's sake.  She wants us to focus on various techniques.

After finding these futuristic robot images in a slick (magazine), I realized the technique I had to revive.

Both the images and the technique show resistance is futile.

It's been awhile since I created the peeling paint technique.  In case you aren't familiar with it, it was made popular by Claudine Hellmuth in her book Collage Journey Workshop.  However, there are many tutorials of this technique on the internet, so I will only briefly cover it here.

I began by laying down several book pages onto a substrate that would later be added to my large art journal.

Once the pages were in place, I used a paint brush and placed a few bits of Petroleum Jelly (aka Vaseline in the U.S.) on several parts of the pages.  I next painted the entire background with cobalt blue acrylic paint and allowed it to dry.  With the petroleum jelly still in place, I added more of it in other spots over parts of the blue paint.

Finally, I applied the yellow paint, and when dry, used baby wipes to remove the paint that didn't stick, along with and petroleum jelly.

I added the images I found in a magazine

that reminded me of robots taking over the world.

I hope you like this first technique, which is peeling paint, and the resulting "Resistance is futile" spread I created using a resist technique.  BTW, I had NO idea Chris created this same technique until I saw her page today!  Talk about being on the same wavelength.

Thank you beyond belief for spending time with me today.  If you are playing in Hanna's 365 Something project, or Tammy's ICAD project, please let me know and I will be by to see what you are making.  Please let me know if you like any of these.  As always, I am extremely grateful for your continued support of both projects.  I also hope to see you today at Art Journal Journey.