ART is the only way ....

Hello my friends,

I am back with my second project for the September challenge at Country View Challenges.

The theme is: Complementary Colours.

This time I made another journal page and I chose magenta and green as my colours.

 I have a little sketch pad, on which I try out some things from time to time. I drew a autumn anemone from my garden some days ago and colored them in with watercolors.

I took this painting and photocopied it onto tissue paper. A little hint: adhere the tissue paper with washi tape on a normal copy paper, so your printer can take the tissue paper without any problems!

I glued down the tissue paper with matte medium,....

...added crackle paint randomly to the page and let it dry.

I colored the background with some watercolor (which was not that easy, bacause of the matte medium the color could not stick to the page), colored the anemones with polycromos color pencils from Faber-Castell, matted a finnabair sticker (words you need) onto colored cheesecloth and adhered it to the page. 

Now I only went with black archival ink around the edges - and that´s it!

I hope you like it and feel inspired to join in with our challenge this month! You can win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit today!

Believe In Your Dreams

 Hello and welcome to September and the start of Autumn.

This month it is my turn to host the challenge over at Country View Challenges and I want to use you Complementary Colours.

Complementary Colours are the colours on the colour wheel, which are on the opposite.

I made an art journal page and used orange and teal/blue.

I made a process video, so if you want - enjoy watching!

I started by glueing down some washi tapes, one from a Dollar store and the other two from Tim Holtz. Then I added some lace and prepared the surface with clear Gesso.

Now I took a stencil from finnabair and stenciled randomly with black Gesso. When dry I took another stencil, this time one from Tim Holtz, and spread Modeling paste through it and dried it.

Next I watered down blue and green Gouache to my weted background and then the orange Gouache. I also made splatters with blue and orange paint. To dull the colors a little bit, I went over the whole pages with matte wax in white. Then I randomly stamped a very old BoBunny word stamp here and there with black Versafine Clair ink.

I enhanced the structure of the stenciled area with a black brush marker and wiped it with my fingers around. Then I glued down the beautiful butterflies, stamped the Journal words stamp from Rubber Dance to white cardstock and cut out the words. I distressed the edges with black ink before I also glued them down.

Now I only had to make some white dots with a posca pen for more interest and last but not least I thought, the pages would need some black splatters.

I hope you like my journal page as much as I do!

Here are some close ups:

Now I am curious to see, what you will make for our challenge now.

I´ll be back in a few days and hope you will come back here again!

Thank you for your visit today and have a wonderful week!