I had a sudden burst of inspiration this week. I wasn’t planning on doing a project and was going to be sharing a video from the membership…. but when you get ideas… you need to follow them! And I’m so glad I did.

I was reading “The Choice” by Edith Eger this week and was reminded of a quote from her other book “The Gift”…. and I envisioned this piece. Maybe it was just a reflection of what I was feeling… but I saw the layers coming together.

I designed this face stencil just for today and I love it. It captures exactly what I wanted to see on my piece.

I did some different techniques to get a soft, vintage feel and it felt peaceful and like that quiet imaginative hope that Edith talks about. It came together so easily with some of my favorite supplies.

I can’t wait to share it with you and I hope that you’ll find the beautiful hope that I did. Have fun watching and always know that you are loved.

Get the original HERE and the Print to be framed HERE

Supplies used:

• 12×12 wood panel
• Liquitex fluid matte medium and Liquitex matte gel
• Collage paper
• Golden So Flat raw umber and Golden high flow raw umber
• Acrylic paint – (house paints) – Vine, cottage white, creme de carmel, quin magenta, prism violet, portrait pink
• black soft pastel stick and Soft pastel pencils (Koh-i-noor pastel pencil set)
• Generals charcoal pencil (ex. soft)
• Angle brush – 1/4″ and 1/2″ (Angle brush set)
• Round brush large (Round brush in different sizes) and small detailed brush (detailed round brush)
• Water bottle

Stencils used: THESE WILL BE ON SALE THIS WEEK

• Faces 6 small side view looking down
• Faces 6 large side view looking down
• Scribble marks 1 5×8
• Scribble marks 6 5×8
• Scribble marks 5 5×8

This is the collage pack that I used – This will be on sale this week

• Sacred in the ordinary collage pack

These two collage papers are available for you in the Free Subscriber Library.