Thursday 25 June 2015

A Visual Journey #25

 Not my normal style and not my cup of tea either but this is what appeared.


As always I gessoed my pages and left them to dry. When I came to start designing I saw my brayer sitting on my desk so I grabbed some distress paints (gathered twigs. barn door and mustard seed) daubed a little of each on my craft mat, spritzed them with water and off we went. But what to add? I grabbed a plastic file box with some very old stamps in and chose the Katzelkraft Cirque 01 set. The colours fitted a circus theme but I needed more layers to provide a more detailed background.


I used masks with paints and distress inks and then a harlequin mask with white acrylic paint.


I blended squeezed lemonade distress ink over and you can see the difference between
 the left and right hand pages


The pages were uneven so the stamp didn't give me a defined image, but there's always a way round things -


- out came the pens and a pencil.



Lastly came the 'embellishing' and I admit to being rather void of ideas, so a simple big top and a quote.



I'm not over enamoured with these pages but my energies have been ploughed into design and workshop ideas recently so I feel mojoless as far as my journal is concerned and that's the first time since I started it.


Sorry I missed last week, but I hope to catch up at some point. For the rest of today, tomorrow and the weekend enjoy whatever you have planned and hopefully some creative time.

hugs Brenda xxxx

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... and I look forward to sharing in your pages through the linky below.

Thanks for taking the time to share your work with me and each other.