At the risk of sounding self-congratulatory, I am really pleased with this page! I like the colours and the layout, I managed not to write in straight lines, the Easter Island head makes me smile, and I got down something that I'd been thinking about a lot. Successful art journalling I believe?
Anyway, below is how the page began - I have this terrible tendency to just paint a page a single colour, so I was determined to use at least two. Having just bought a new bottle of turquoise/teal and this glorious lime green (these are just bog standard acrylic paints) it was obvious that I would try the two colours together, having noticed how great they looked together in the car going home!
It needed a bit of shading and a touch of white too, and then I was off with the bits of collage and this wonderful image of a carved stone head I'd found from somewhere, a newspaper I think. The collage is just bits of colour and pattern which appeal to me - something I've learned from Teesha Moore. As soon as I added the glasses (using one of those cheapy £1 clear stamps) I knew instantly what the page was about.
So then I developed it a bit more - doodling on the collage shapes and getting the writing down. My stone head stands for someone trying to be something they aren't, so as well as the glasses he got a beard etc. Man in disguise - geddit? This process doesn't necessarily happen all in one session, although I don't normally work on more than one page at a time ... except when making general purpose backgrounds.
And then, my favourite part, when its almost finished but it "needs" something? This is usually resolve through the "I know, lets doodle on it" method! In this case with an assortment of posca paint pens, although you should note that I resisted the temptation to doodle on every single inch? Proud of myself I was.
Like I said, I'm pleased with it and while I rarely blog my worst efforts - well I paint over the really awful ones - this one is up there with some of my favourites. You don't have to like it obviously, but thanks for coming by anyway.
Love
Rosie X
