Accidental Art

Have you had something happen unexpectedly when you are doing your art or art journal?  One of those "happy little accidents?"  I have.
About two or three weeks ago, I noticed a piece of tape on the writing of a vintage book.  I pulled it off and the writing came with the tape.  It made me think, what if.  What if I put a stencil on the page and covered the open spot with tape, so I tried it.  I like the kinda fuzzy edges it leaves on the blank spot.  I made several pages, some with hearts since it was getting close to that time of the year, and some with birds, since I have fun bird stencils.  The pages I was able to use on a couple of collages.  Interesting.  Play around with it and see how you like it.

The other happy little accident happened today.  I gave my "glossy project" embroidered piece a gesso wash. Then I immediately painted it in red and green, for some reason.   I left it on one of those cheap kitchen mats you can buy in the dollar store... I use them for under mats for my art work.  I left it to dry, and when I pulled it off, the embroidery piece made a "shadow print".  I made a copy of it so I can use it some where some day.  Then, I sprayed the matt and brayed a piece of scrap book paper onto the almost dry gesso shadow print and left it to dry to the paper... I will see what happens.  Maybe nothing, but you never know.  Anyway, here is the scan of the shadow print: