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My name got a little wet and bled since I had used a non-permanent marker there but I kinda like that! If you don’t have walnut ink you can achieve the same look with watercolor or very watered down acrylic paints.
I really like my armor and when I look at these pages I feel happy, safe, and empowered. :)
A few of you that I have talked too have had little amazing things happen as they were working. And here is mine. I tried really hard to get a picture close enough to read that wasn't blurry(sorry). But the dictionary text under her arm reads "Guide body of person" Maybe I'm reading into it but it's an unplanned surprise that I really like.
Alrighty, moving forward!
Let’s turn to page 3 and 4 in our journals. On my page 3 I have dictionary paper that has been journaled on and covered with Gesso. On my page 4 I have journaling covered with Gesso and no dictionary page. You may not have continued journaling onto page 4 like I did but that’s OK.
Most of you have already done this but I want you to make sure that both pages have a drybrush of Gesso on them before we start today to protect your pages from paint. After your Gesso is completely dry I want you to do a light wash of a darker color of Acrylic paint over both pages. To do a wash just add water to your paints. I have done mine here in dark brown (AKA Raw Umber) but you may want to use dark purple, black, dark blue, etc. Oh and if you were wondering…those black dots on my left page are string from where I sewed my attachment the page before.
Let’s turn to page 3 and 4 in our journals. On my page 3 I have dictionary paper that has been journaled on and covered with Gesso. On my page 4 I have journaling covered with Gesso and no dictionary page. You may not have continued journaling onto page 4 like I did but that’s OK.
Most of you have already done this but I want you to make sure that both pages have a drybrush of Gesso on them before we start today to protect your pages from paint. After your Gesso is completely dry I want you to do a light wash of a darker color of Acrylic paint over both pages. To do a wash just add water to your paints. I have done mine here in dark brown (AKA Raw Umber) but you may want to use dark purple, black, dark blue, etc. Oh and if you were wondering…those black dots on my left page are string from where I sewed my attachment the page before.
Blot some areas to lighten them while the paint is still wet with a paper towel. If the paint isn’t coming off enough, brush a bit more water on top of those areas and blot again. It was fun to see that my right side reacted a bit different than the left because the surface was more textured due to the lack of the added dictionary page.
Allow this to dry.
Yippie! Now it is time for a scavenger hunt!!
Yippie! Now it is time for a scavenger hunt!!
Time to get out those magazines!!
Find the following images in your magazines. When you see one on a page just tear the whole page out, set it aside and keep going. Don’t pay any attention to the size of the image. When you find one you like, just tear and go!
Ready….
Find the following images in your magazines. When you see one on a page just tear the whole page out, set it aside and keep going. Don’t pay any attention to the size of the image. When you find one you like, just tear and go!
Ready….
Set…..
Go…..
1.A smile
2.Something beautiful
3. a chair
4. something red
5. something blue
6. something comfortable
7. something exotic
8. a leaf
9. a color you love
10. a pattern
11. a flower
12. a bird
13. something you want
14. something you own
15. the letter R
16 something that smells good
17. something that tastes good
18. A circle
19. the letter A
20. An eye that’s the same color as yours
21. a hand
22. the letter T
23. a butterfly
24. a number
Set your images aside until tomorrow.
Part of not knowing what the end result will be is learning to enjoy the journey. I hope you enjoyed yourself today.
That’s all for today! YAY!
*DaNcE*