Art Journal Page: Green to Red

This is the finished page:

 I tend to use a lot of cool colors in my journal.  Not by design-  my hand is always picking up the same colors, especially blue.  I have to make a conscious effort to use warm colors and that is what this journal  page is about.  This page started out with "painty waste' in green  I added read, orange and yellow acrylic paint randomly on the page.  The faint circles in the background were made by wiping off a stencil that was used on another page:

Next,  I splattered red acrylic ink, spray it with water to make and run and then let the ink drip down the page.

 

 I stamped a script stamp with black archival ink.  I wiped a portion of the page with gesso and then wiped most of it off.  I thought the page looked okay until I took a photo if it.  One I saw the photo  I realized that the white gesso was too stark, especially on the left.

I added pink neon acrylic paint for bump up the color a bit.

To tone down the look of the gesso, I stamped one of my favorite stamps- the medallion by Hero Arts- with  Ranger archival ink in Sienna.  I also used a bottle cap dipped in walnut ink spray and stamped random circles on the page.  I also rubbed on distress ink though a screen pattern stencil over the script.

To finish the page off,  I added a little shading  around the edges of the page using complementary oil pastel colors.  This  page is now ready for pictures or journaling!

Art Journal Page: Light to Dark

This is a page I recently created using acrylic paint, stencils and stamps.  I did not have a vision for the page when I started.  I just grabbed materials as they occurred to me.

This page started off as a scrap page.  When I use a stencil and have leftover paint or ink on the stencil,  I stick it in between some blank pages of my journal.  The purple paint is "paint waste".  I added the blue using Blick matte acrylics. You can see the stencil I used in the upper left.  The foam stamp used in the next stamp is in the upper right.

I stamped the flower shapes with a foam stamp using another Blick matte acrylic.  I also added some green paint.  The page on the left is the primary page I worked on.  If I had any excess paint on the stamp or stencils I used,  I "off-stamped" on the right.

 I added text to the background with a script stamp.  So far so good. However,  In the next step, I pretty much ruin the page:

I added Golden Fluid Acrylic paint in Burnt Sienna  using a paintbrush.  I did not like the result of this step as I think I covered up too much of the blue and green, which I liked.  Fortunately, it was not the final step.

Not content to ruin it with a little Burnt Sienna,  I added some more.  At this point the page was really too dark for my taste so I lightened it by blotting on yellow acrylic paint.

I  like to combine different types of paint and ink on my pages.  Here I am preparing to add black spray paint using this numbers stencil.

This is the page after I added the spray paint on the left.  I blotted off the excess paint from the stencil on the right hand page.

Here is another photo of the final page.  I finished it by adding more black paint with the stencil.  I also stamped a circle stamp using archival ink in orange blossom.  To add more depth and texture to the page, I edged the outer borders with a pinkish red oil pastel.

Thanks for following my process!

Art Journal Page: Wanderlust- Part 1

I love to work in shades of blue, which is the way this  page started.  Somehow I ended up with greens and yellows.  I wanted this page to have an ephemeral dreaming quality that invoked hazy images of  far away places.
Base layer: Gesso, then used matte medium to adhere torn book pages.
Next layer: Wiped on orange acrylic paint and then wiped some off.  I added color using various stencils.
Final layers: Washi tape, images cut from old books and rubber stamps.