The title of the page came after the figure was discovered in the page :) It has to do with me re-discovering the power of "Affirmations" :) I have recently discovered wood glue (from Mireille's videos) :) In the past I had run out of acrylic varnish (matt/gel medium) while doing my collage pages and this ended up stopping me almost completely from collage anything properly! Until I saw one of Mireille's videos where she mentioned that she was using wood glue for decoupage work. So, with thanks to Mereille, I managed to find a small container of that glue and got one to use instead of the acrylic varnish (matt/gel medium) :)
This is why, this page started purely with collage, oh how I missed that! As I had no idea what I was going to make for this page, all I knew at the tart was hat I wanted to decoupage, and I wasn't doing it with selecting any papers in particular, just grabbed the closest ones, the actual image of the man's face emerged from the corner of the page :)I also got a set of coloring pens and decided to grab those coloring pens that you can blow threw to use as spray, since I didn't have access to distress spray bottles yet. You'll see my head as I'm blowing the paint onto the page threw the stencils (more home made stencils and the butterflies that came with the spray pens).
Here is the whole picture:
Check out the creative process as it happens here:
Supplies used: (in order of appearance)
- Recycled transfer paper to hold the double spread
- Matt acrylic varnish (gel medium to glue the strips and seal the page at the end)
- Gesso
- Wood glue (white and dries transparent)
- Recycled paper used to mop up paint (as collage)
- Permanent marker to outline the face that popped as well as the butterflies
- Acrylic paint
- Homemade stencils
- Spray pens (and the stencils that came with it)
- Coloring pens
- Hairspray to fix the coloring ink
- Glitter for some accents on the butterflies and the key
