This is my first blog post on my art journaling. I took pictures throughout the process so that I could make this post showing what I used and how. I found a free book at the library about raising adolescent children, and since I have two young girls I decided to use it in my creative process. I modge podged all of the ripped book pages down. I then spread gesso all over the page. I used a diamond stencil to help create the kite.
I used gelatos for the background because they are transparent. I put down the red first, then orange around the red, and yellow everywhere else. I left the kite alone.
Using a stencil and baby wipe, I wiped off some of the gelatos. After this step I added modge podge over the entire page to keep the gelatos in place. I had to add a pretty thick layer so that they wouldn't smear with my brush.
Using a stencil and "Bleu Turquoise" acrylic paint I added the blue swirls randomly, again leaving the kite alone.
I used H2O's shimmer watercolor to paint the kite. The dragonflies were made with a stencil, a make-up sponge, and StaZon Jet black ink (my favorite ink ever). I added two pieced of ephemera from the Maggie Holmes ephemera packs after distressing the edges. I added gelatos around the edges of the camera to smear them in.
I painted strips of book pages and cut them out with an xacto knife. After adding them I added shading to the bottom of them.
This is the final product. I am happy with everything except the writing on the kite strings. I either need to change from using modge podge or find a good pen to use for writing. I went around the tree branch and edges of the page with a charcoal pencil.
I hope you enjoyed this process post. Please leave me comments!! :)
