Catching Up

Besides dealing with the heat and other things I have been busy with I wasn't doing too much visual journaling. Then I got inspired by Mary Ann over at Dispatch from L.A. Mary Ann creates foot-stomping cool mailart and visual journals...and she digs stencils...she started cutting a few of her own -- and I realized it has been years since I'd done so. Quite a few years ago I was really into airbrushing and I used to create many stencils to incorporate into my airbrush art.

This afternoon I dug through my art supplies and found some acetate type material that is used for overhead projection screens. Then I dug out my Versa-Tool and plugged it in until it was smokin' baby :) I am out of practice with the stencil burning (which I prefer over using an X-acto knife because it's faster)...but below are two of my results that I incorporated into my 'junk mail' visual journal...(yep, still workin' on that one!)...
I took these photos at night so the colors are not great...

*the junk mail used in the above page is the word FREEDOM - the stencil
I created is Bob Dylan*

*the piece of junk mail used in the piece above are the words ' any prescription'...I thought it was fitting with Jim Morrison...I LOVED this artist - and I thought he was a genius...drugged up, yes..but a genius nonetheless...Morrison is the stencil I created.
- as always the images can be clicked on to enlarge-