I love your narrative. Projects do speak to us, they share feelings with us. Colors and items can evoke feelings and memories for us. I do love creativity in all forms. When I am working on whatever craft of the moment, I remind myself "it isn't always about the finished piece, remember to enjoy the process".
I couldn't agree more - I'm always process-oriented rather than product-oriented... In my theatre work too, I always enjoy rehearsals more than performances! And a big yes to the evocation of feelings and memories and the unexpected stories which bubble up as you are creating. Thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comment.
Love these and can't wait to try them. I love the organic feel. Words & Pictures is definitely what i have been looking for in my new journey of paperart! Thank you!
Thank you so much for your lovely comment... so happy you found your way here. I've only just started adding content here regularly, so there will be lots more coming this year!
Thank you so much!! I feel that you were teaching us the entire time that you were creating, and teaching well! I feel that I learned quite a lot! I must now go back and watch a previous video as I have just found you…lucky for me!😊
What a lovely comment - I'm so happy to hear that you found it useful. I've only just started building content regularly here on RU-vid (though there's lots on Instagram and on my blog!) so there will be lots more to come this year. Thank you so much for watching (several videos!) and commenting.
And once you do, they'll just keep coming year after year!! They seem to be able to grow out of any crack or cranny... So happy that you enjoyed this tag pair - thank you.
They look fantastic , Allison!! I am making all sorts of tags now for a friend, to exchange.....and yours will be a good inspiration for another tag. TFS Edith
How funny... I usually create in pretty mucky clothes, but I'm starting to have a "filming uniform" - and since these tops are so many decades old, I would live if they got a bit of paint on them!
Thank you Alison for talking us through how you put things together and how sometimes they just evolve as you are making, I so enjoyed watching this and feel very inspired.
What a lovely comment, thank you - I'm so happy you feel inspired to go and play yourself! Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to comment.
I love mixed media, but have always felt intimidated by it. The idea of a few minutes of fun really appeals to me. What a lovely set of videos. Thank you. Hugs, treen 💕💕💕
What a lovely comment - that's so great to hear! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to share your thoughts. I hope you'll have time for a few minutes of fun yourself very soon.
I love to watch you work, thank you for sharing your though process. Fun fact, Golden Paints are headquartered in New Berlin, NY. It's a very small town 30 minutes from my home in Central NY.
Thank you... and sorry to make you wince! I've got many, many pairs of scissors... and I'm almost never interested in a perfectly smooth cut - more than half the time I rip my papers rather than cutting them! So I'm afraid most of the scissors have to take the rough with the smooth... there are a couple of pairs I keep pristine though. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
I had to come back and look to see what you were talking about! Sorry to disappoint you... it's not polka dotted, these ones just come with air holes (which I guess are good in terms of letting the skin heal without completely sealing in all the moisture). But I bet such things exist... yup, just went for a quick google - printed plasters are definitely a thing!!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures printed plasters. I love the words and phrases you Old Englanders use. As a New Englander, I feel akin to you all. And I knew that candy floss was cotton candy 💗🤗
Thank you so much - balancing tag pairs and trios is one of my favourite ways to create, so I'm sure it will feature here again... plus the great thing about RU-vid is you can always watch again! (Or watch it at half speed, but that's weird!!). So happy you enjoyed it, and thank you for taking the time to comment.
Hello, new subscriber here! These are gorgeous. I have had that Tim Holtz package of goodies for awhile and not used them. I just love what you've done, and will give it go. Thank you for the inspiration.
So happy to hear that you feel inspired to go and play - best response I could have! And delighted that you've decided to subscribe - thank you. I've just started to build the content here, so there will be lots more to come this year.
That's lovely to hear - thanks so much for letting me know. I've only recently started to share videos here regularly, so there's plenty more to come this year.
I love these! Would you comment on how you go about picking your color palettes? I learn so much from watching you - it’s kind of like you’re teaching & coaching. Creating is so important! I read - The earth without art is just eh 😉
What a lovely comment, thank you... I certainly wouldn't be interested in "eh"!! Colour is such a personal thing... it's hard to say how my colour preferences came about, but they've always been pretty clear to me, right from the start of my visual creative journey. I suppose the simple answer is "nature"... always my muse in colour terms, as well as shapes (I prefer organic to geometric). And then I mostly like to work in the cool end of the colour palette - there's maybe a touch of melancholy about it that appeals in the same way that I prefer music in a minor key to major (almost always). My palette is also very seasonal... so come autumn you'll find everything turns rust, gold, brown, orange. It's pretty much the only time you'll find orange in my work, but for those months, it's there all the time... I prefer to think of it as "burnished rust"! And for the berries I often paint (and which have made their way onto lots of my stamp designs for PaperArtsy), red is allowed... so again, nature has her way, even though red is not a colour I reach for otherwise. As far as what I grab while I'm actually working - I don't know whether I can bring that to a conscious process. I look at the piece in front of me and wait until I understand what it needs next. Sometimes that will be a contrast, sometimes something in harmony. It happens somewhere deep in the heart/gut/imagination... I hope this long answer has something useful in it for you somewhere!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures so enlightening! Makes total sense. I used to be a primary color person- taught little ones for so many years. But now I find earth tones more appealing. One of favorites will always be Paynes Grey. Thank you for your answer🖌️
So interesting that shift from primaries to earth tones. That's definitely somewhere I'm happy too. And a big YES to Payne's Grey. In fact, all tones of grey... Pumice Stone is probably my most used Distress Ink; I have a beautiful French Grey by American Journey watercolours; Art to Basic have some pale, medium and dark Olives which are basically versions of grey, which I love; my Daniel Smith Payne's Grey and Payne's Blue Grey are always having to be topped up; and I just recently indulged myself by getting a couple of the D.S. designer greys too!
Oh Alison these lovely ladies look gorgeous, thank you so much for sharing your techniques, I remember that beautiful journal you made some time back with it’s wonderful story, you really are the storyteller ❤️❤️❤️
Amazing! I love the tags and how you coordinated them together. I so enjoyed hearing your thought process throughout. Thanks for sharing your creativity and inspiration. Have a great day! 🙂
Thank you so much Alison, I really really love ❤❤❤❤ those tags and I really really love who you put them together. They’d make brilliant toppers for cards too. Your creativity is amazing and incredible too. What are you doing in the check (sorry can’t spell the word) republic then?? Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤
Happy you love the tags - they're definitely my favourite substrate to play on... so stress free! I live in the Czech Republic now, have done for the last four years or so. My grandparents were originally from here, but fled in the 1930s, so it's a return in some ways. Have a great weekend - when it gets here!
So happy to hear that... sometimes projects just want to go in directions you don't expect, and I like to follow them! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Beautiful tags and lovely video. It’s wonderful to see how you used your tags from your previous video. I could watch you all day; your voice is so soothing 😊
Your work never disappoints Alison. Such gorgeous tags. I have just ordered your new stamps and am excited to play with them. Thanks so much for sharing. Xx
I really don't make cards - I don't know why not, I just don't (or at least it's vanishingly rare!). But you could easily layer these over other painted or decorative papers to create a card. I use them as gift tags, or frame them as pairs or - for the most part - keep them on display in small crates to flip through for inspiration or for pleasure. (You can see some of what I mean in my RU-vid Shorts.) And these are already quite large, actually - easily card-sized. They are mainly about the process, though, not the end product. I find tags an economical and stress-free place to play and experiment, to learn and grow as a creator and artist. Some people use journals (and I do that too!), but tags are quick and simple when time is short.
Some I keep in little wooden crates to flick through for inspiration. Some go on pinboards or shelves. Some go into boxes. Maybe some day some will be for sale at a craft fair or online outlet, but that's another whole step of organisation - and I've got more than ten years' worth of them to sort through in that case! Thank you for watching and commenting, much appreciated.
first time watching you is today. What do you do with those lovely tags? Do you sell them? do people use them as a shelf picture? i love the art that goes into them and the result but not sure i understand how to use them? Have you ever made a picture using the same technique? Thanks for sharing you words & pics they are absolutely stunning. JJ
Happy you found your way here and thank you for your lovely words. Really the point of tags for me is the making of them, not what happens afterwards. It's about the process, the creative journey, learning, discovering, growing - playing with products and with composition. It's a substrate where I feel free to play without pressure, and since they are small you don't need much time to come to a happy completion. And then absolutely those ideas, techniques, colour combinations, compositional habits become part of other artworks... journals, handmade books, paintings, altered art - I do a lot of different stuff... you can see more on Instagram @w0rdsandp1ctures instagram.com/w0rdsandp1ctures/ For the tags themselves, they might end up as part of art journal pages, or occasionally a card-topper (though I really don't make cards much); they can be framed just as they are for display, either alone or in a series (I often create in pairs or trios or quartets or sets) or hung up; they can be used as bookmarks or as tags (which they are!) to decorate a gift. Lots of them live in little crates and baskets in my studio, for flipping through for inspiration or to show visitors what I get up to. You can see what I mean here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EwkvmSSKvb4.html That's a long answer, but I hope it helps! Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Have a great Sunday.
They're not actually stamped - I made them in the stencil-flipping video which is linked in the description... you can find it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hA09HcZUpf0.html Hope you enjoy it!
Happy you like them... and no worries at all about asking the question. Answer one - what is any art used for?!? Answer two - there are lots of ways you could use them. You could easily layer these over other painted or decorative papers to create a card. I sometimes use them as gift tags, or frame them (as pairs, or trios or whatever I've created them as). These are quite large, actually - easily card-sized, so you could use them as a card just as they are. Flat tags can be bookmarks. But for the most part - I keep them on display in small crates to flip through for inspiration or for pleasure. (You can see some of what I mean in my RU-vid Shorts.) They are mainly about the process, not the end product. I find tags an economical and stress-free place to play and experiment, to learn and grow as a creator and artist. Some people use journals (and I do that too!), but tags are quick and simple when time is short. So they are a learning tool. Hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.