Monday 19 January 2015

The Documented Life - Week 2

I've just finished my week 2 for the Documented Life, this week we had to use gesso on the pages.


I started by painting the blank pages with gesso and then I adhered my calender page.
I use a baby wipe to apply the DecoArt acrylic paint.
I used an Impression Obsession stamp and rose madder Archival ink on the background and then stamped some black crackle with a Kaisercraft stamp.
The Woodware clematis was stamped onto paper and coloured with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush, I cut them out and adhered them to the pages.
The dates and lines on the calender had disappeared under the paint so penned them in.
I stencelled the dragonflies with gesso and let them dry then I coloured them with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush then I went round the edges with a black watercolour pencil and waterbrush.
The last thing I did was to write the Mary Shelly quote.


This is a closer look at the dragonflies.

6 comments:

  1. Such beautiful flowers and wonderful coloured dragonflies

    Love Chrissie

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  2. I so rarely use purples and mauves, and seeing your beautiful pages, I really don't know why.

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  3. Those clematis are so pretty!

    Sally

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  4. Lovely pages, love the dragonflies. Hugs, Valerie

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  5. Beautiful pages, gorgeous colours! xox

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  6. Love the soft pastel effect the gesso has created and the dragonflies are adorable.
    Alison xx

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