I remember seeing different art journal techniques to get the mountain-like effect, but most of them had to do with crumbling the actual page. Since I couldn't do that, because of the other side of one of them being the previous page, I decided to try that with napkins. Since I have an overflowing abundance of those euro bill note napkins, I decided to use up some of them :) Looks strange when you see it being applied, but I'm satisfied with how effective they were. I used layers and layers of the napkins as well as the paint.
Once the mountains of liquid gold were created, I was stuck :) That is when you see me rummaging threw my storage of "stuff that can be used" :) tried a few things but decided on some thread that was left over from recycling some bag handles.
Since there was a lot of shine on the page already, I went for the contrast of the thread and stuck with it. A few tidbits of red napkin and i was falling in love with the page. I also used a piece of furniture role, the stuff you use on the bottom of chairs and couches on the frame :) It was not wide enough, nor big enough for the word I wanted to use...... What to do? Go back to the stash :) And I found a perfect piece of cardboard that would fit :)
I finished off the page using matt varnish (gel/matt medium) to protect the page. I also used a lot of that varnish to stick everything down... from now on I'm switching to wood glue :)
This is the final result of the whole spread:
You can watch the actual creative process on video here:
Supplies used:
- Tissue/pattern paper to join the page spread
- Matt varnish (matt/gel medium) to stick it
- Gesso to prime
- Tissue paper (to create my mountains)
- Water based glue to stick the tissue
- Acrylic paint
- Paint roller (to spread the paint on the mountains)
- Fabric paint (the gold)
- Recycled thread (brown)
- Recycled furniture roles
- Cardboard
- Matt Varnish (matt/gel medium) to seal the spread
