Journal page: Creation process

I decided to capture the creation stages of my most recent journal page.

Step 1: Apply masking tape in a random pattern.

Step 2: Gesso the pages.

Step 3: When gesso is dry (or maybe not as in my case), spread acrylic paint all over the pages.

Step 4: The messier the better. Though to be honest, I was a little horrified with it at this stage. Here is a closeup of the mess. Nice textures no?

Step 5: How much worse can it really get? I pulled out a stencil and watered down black acrylic paint in a spray bottle and did some spraying. Not really much of an improvement.

Step 6: Might as well go all in. Circles stamped with white acrylic and a bottle top.

Step 7: Closeup of the mess. Was liking it more at this point.

Step 8: It need something. Had just read Saga, Vol.1, and thought an image from there would perfectly capture the mood I was in. Traced it, and glued down the tracing paper image with gel medium.

Step 9: Painted her with watercolors, and gave her a border to make her pop out from all that textured mess. Final step was a date stamp.

And there you have it, a true mixed media spread. I realized only afterwards how well it reflected my mood that day, and how playing in my journal helped soothe me, and get it all out. 

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