Page 7 in my product manual turned into art journal. This time I used an old paper bag I had found and kept for recycling. The orange was so vivid that I had to have it and knew it would come in handy one day. I was also running low on collage scraps :)
Even though I had to use two pieces of that paper bag, it didn't show in the final result, so that worked out well.
Cutting the excess paper this time was done using a cutter instead of the usual scissors, because I found that in some areas the scissors couldn't get the bit in the middle, but then again it didn't work on the part where the glue was still wet.
Now that I had a huge orange page… what to do? Grab the next bunch of scraps. I had used some of them before and this time I wanted to use all of them. But first to create a border, I used red and just spread it with my fingers. It is easier to clean my fingers than the paint brush. I liked the red, but was to close to another page I made so adding some green made it look completely different.
At this point I forgot to switch on the recording again, so you didn't see the start of the collaging, but I remembered when I was about 3rd of the way with it. you don't miss much in the video. I was surprised at how small the area was that I ended up covering, I thought I wold be able to cover more, but I did remove the white parts of the paper that didn't have much paint on it…. this must have done it. However, I did have a little being that emerged from the page :) Outlining him/her was fun, trying to give him eyes, nose, smile, ears and even hair…. then his legs with feet that looked more like hooves :D
Seeing that his features were not that visible I used skin tone acrylic to push back the colors in the face area and that made it better visible… the nose also fell behind, but was easily fixed again. Since his eyes were black, I didn't know what to do for the eyes, so I just made the white circles with the white fluid permanent marker.
Once I looked at that being it said to me "Hello World! Here I am, ready, willing and able" :)
I felt that the page was more or less complete, and grabbed some fabric paint in copper and added accents around the border with that. It is not easily visible at first glance, but it does seem to add some dimension, but still, something was missing.
The eyes were a bit too white, so I used metallic blue fabric paint to soften them a bit. Once all this was done I wanted to add another border to properly frame it and just grabbed the yellow paint tube I have and decided to doodle the frame, yes, it's turning into a habit :) I enjoyed the doodling so much so that I forgot to put a layer of acrylic varnish to seal the page, tsk tsk tsk! Ah well!!
Happy journaling!
You can enjoy the whole creative process here:
Supplies used: (in order of appearance)
- Recycled product manual
- Masking tape to protect the spine
- Recycled torn paper bag
- Wood glue
- Recycled paper with mopped up paint
- Acrylic paint
- Permanent marker
- White fluid permanent marker
- Fabric paint (in copper and metallic blue)
