Monday, February 6, 2012

Working In A New Journal



I got a new book to make into a journal for the Supplies Me Class with Jane Davenport. Its an old book on whaling. Its bigger than the other books I have altered and I think I am going to like the size.















After gessoing the page I put down strips of collage material from old books, music collections and some wallpaper.



Then came a layer of alcohol ink.














I added stamping to the background using a script stamp and then some of my hand carved stamps. I like hte texture it added to the background.



















I drew a face which I have marked out in gesso.



















Then I painted the face using Golden Fluid acrylics. She sort of looks like an old world portrait to me.




















At this point I lowered the neck on her dress and decided to make a dress from some gorgeous paper I have. I am not sure if the red dress goes with the purple hair but I went with it anyways.




















For the opposite page I wrote a letter to accompany this portrait sent from one artist to another.  As you can see they both seem to know the model.  I used a simple piece of  beige paper that I added some brown edges to that got a little out of hand but I like the messy look.  I used a dip pen and ink to write the note and attached it with Tim Holtz tissue paper tape.















Here they are both together.  These pages didn't  not turn out as I had planned at the beginning. They reallyy evolved to become their own thing. I really had to follow the muse with this one.

5 comments:

  1. I love it when a page goes somewhere you never expected. Perhaps this is an ancient relative of yours ? She looks a little like you.
    Have fun in the playroom !

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  2. How fun to see this page grow! Live ART!!!

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  3. Thanks for showing the process. I like the red dress with purple hair! You know me, anything purple is always good!

    Working in a larger book should be lots of fun. I prefer to work bigger even though at first I thought working smaller would be easier...not true.

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  4. This was fun... got to see you create from start to finish, love it!!
    She is beautiful, the blue hair... it is all her. :]
    Thank you for sharing your talents, always.

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  5. I like how these evolved! The class looks to be really a lot of fun. I think her dress goes great with the blue hair...xoO

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