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Wednesday, 15 January 2014

RGAJ3 Page 2 | Who Is Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf | Mixed Media Art Journal Page

Lately I've been into using collage, but not in the real sense of the original meaning of this term. I like putting bits and pieces of recycled paper (with paint on it already) and see what images I can see that I can use. For this page I could only see one mean Red Riding Hood :) She really looks vicious!!! But that was the only thing I could see on the page after all that gluing! 

I realized, a bit too late, that this technique works best if I bunch up the colors together as it will give better distinction between the colors, compare to if you just put everything all over the place as what happened here. 

Nevertheless, this challenge didn't stop me and I kept going and trying to find something until I decided to stay with only one figure, seeing there was no wolf visible :) 

Even though I only managed to find an evil looking Little Red Riding Hood, I couldn't stop singing her song from the story, thus the quote on the page :) Because there was no known wolf, I had to stick with "a wolf" :) You never know what can be lurking around the corner :) 

You can watch the creative process as it happens here: 




Supplies used: (in order of appearance)

  • Recycled product manual (as my art journal)
  • Recycled paper, used for exess paint (including an art journal page I didn't like)
  • Wood glue
  • Acrylic paint
  • Permanent marker
  • Fluid permanent marker (the white)
  • Black gesso (homemade from black acrylic and white gesso)
  • Ballpoint pen (blue to outline the text)
  • Acrylic varnish to seal it all