"New style" - a bird page with a new technique in Seawhite hardbound 7.5"x7.5" (ca. 20x20 cm) journal, finished on Monday (because of all the interesting videos from Creativation) :0)
This page started as a acrylic mixed media background - layering of chalk and normal acrylic paints, some acrylic stamping....too messy and disappointing for me at the end, so I changed a bit my planes and finished the page in more graphic look, which I like.
But the main goal was to create the leaves with a great technique I saw on the Paper Artsy blog. Leaves are stamped on the acetate sheet with black Staz-on ink, dried (I carefully used a heat tool) and then colored from the stamped side with more layers of acrylic paint. Firstly I used 3 layers of beautiful transparent Red iron oxide from Golden and than more opaque and lighter Americana Bright orange paint and sealed all with glossy varnish medium. If you then cut the leaves out of the acrylic sheet and flip them over, the colours from the back side really shine through the clear plastic and they are perfectly protected from damage.
This is a wonderful technique and I absolutely recommend to try it :0) It is just necessary to thing carefully about the order of the colours you will place on the back side of the acetate, because your first layer of colour will be most visible one at the end. It is a reversed style, normally if you work on your page, it is your last layer which is the most visible .0)
So this page turned to be more mixed media than expected. I used Golden acrylic paint, Paper Artsy Fresco acrylic paints, Americana acrylic paints, different stamps for background texture, colored pencils from Derwent and Caran d'Ache, Twisted stencils - big and small - from Tim Holtz, skeleton leaf stamp from Florileges design, thicker acetate sheet from some stamp packaging, clothespin stamp from Penny Black's older Embellishments stamp set and I changed a bit the Prima's bird stamp from Jamie Dougherty (I stamped it with Antique linen Distress ink, redrawed the picture according my needs with permanent black liner and "erased" the rest of the "unused" lines with clean water and brush, because distress ink is water-soluble). White details are made with water-based fine Sharpie pen. Alphabet is again my latest favorite Perfectly penned font from Concord and 9th.
But the main goal was to create the leaves with a great technique I saw on the Paper Artsy blog. Leaves are stamped on the acetate sheet with black Staz-on ink, dried (I carefully used a heat tool) and then colored from the stamped side with more layers of acrylic paint. Firstly I used 3 layers of beautiful transparent Red iron oxide from Golden and than more opaque and lighter Americana Bright orange paint and sealed all with glossy varnish medium. If you then cut the leaves out of the acrylic sheet and flip them over, the colours from the back side really shine through the clear plastic and they are perfectly protected from damage.
This is a wonderful technique and I absolutely recommend to try it :0) It is just necessary to thing carefully about the order of the colours you will place on the back side of the acetate, because your first layer of colour will be most visible one at the end. It is a reversed style, normally if you work on your page, it is your last layer which is the most visible .0)
So this page turned to be more mixed media than expected. I used Golden acrylic paint, Paper Artsy Fresco acrylic paints, Americana acrylic paints, different stamps for background texture, colored pencils from Derwent and Caran d'Ache, Twisted stencils - big and small - from Tim Holtz, skeleton leaf stamp from Florileges design, thicker acetate sheet from some stamp packaging, clothespin stamp from Penny Black's older Embellishments stamp set and I changed a bit the Prima's bird stamp from Jamie Dougherty (I stamped it with Antique linen Distress ink, redrawed the picture according my needs with permanent black liner and "erased" the rest of the "unused" lines with clean water and brush, because distress ink is water-soluble). White details are made with water-based fine Sharpie pen. Alphabet is again my latest favorite Perfectly penned font from Concord and 9th.
23. 1. 2017 New style
