Time for some colour. RED. This art journal page theme is "grow". Would green have not been a better colour? Nope, red is a power colour. Dig into those supplies and bring them out. PLAY, like you just got those crayons/watercolours/pastels/pens. TASTE the colours (well, don't taste them, silly, but some colours just LOOK yummy), FEEL them. How have you grown? What is the most painful and then the most rewarding growth you've experienced?
Here, I used sloppy, sloppy acrylic paint, first black gesso, then the red, adding yellow here and letting the gesso show thru there. I drew a face on a separate piece of paper with pencil crayons then glued it on, adding a body, and a babe. For some of the clothing and in the background I dug out an old flower catalogue, cut pieces to size and glopped on the polymer medium (hence the sheen) to adhere them to the page. On top I used pastels (gasp! not the norm in the art world), gobs of glue to hold the string, a rub-on and black and white pens.
The 2nd page is more growth, but dig deeper. Black gesso, droplets of polymer medium, dried, then acrylic paint. The face is drawn on printer paper, and applied with more polymer medium. This is The Tree of Margot. I left some branches open so that I can go back and add later if I like. Weird. Wonderful.
2 comments:
you look at the world the way I do, only you manage to put it on paper and I merely look at it through an orange coloured crystal... mmmmmmm
Lisa
orange coloured crystals are yummy.
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