WIP...

So, anyway, I have been meaning to take up art journaling for some time, and never had time. I've covered a lot of techniques over the years, but never really knew what I wanted to do with them - deep and meaningful stuff makes me squirm, to be honest, so it doesn't appeal at all. I think I know where I want to go with my journal now, so I took a deep breath and actually put paint to paper...

I am using a journal I got a couple of years ago from Art From The Heart in Harrogate (and have been admiring ever since) and the leaves are die cut from book pages taken from an ancient tome I got from a 50p stall in my ex-local Tesco. I stuck it down with matte gel medium and I'm using PaperArtsy fresco finish paints, which I love. 

When I had a layer of paint down, I printed out an image from the internet that suited my subject, with the intention of using it as an image transfer. This turned out to be an instance where patience is a virtue - I got over excited and started removing the copy paper before the matte medium was completely dry and ended up with bald patches. Humph.

OK, lesson learned, time to put it right - I set to work with a Faber-Castell pitt pen, and 2 hours later

I had a decent image on my page... and yes, that is a jigsaw, also a WIP.

I have used a soft pencil and a paper stump to add some shadowing to the leaf die cuts, and sanded them very lightly to make them stand out a bit more.

That's it for now,

See you later,

Janet x