I have been still playing with the Under the Sea Theme since my return from my recent seaside retreat. I am participating in a journal swap and chose this as my theme and then having a Fishy Altered Pages Collage Sheets turn up in my mail box recently I decided to play some more.
This is a double page spread I created in my small Dylusions Art Journal.
Because I was not using paint on my initial background layer I choose not to Gesso my pages. I took some watery colors from my Gelatos and scribbled across the background before smearing and smoothing the color in with a baby wipe. I then used some Navy Blue Ink with some bubble wrap to randomly stamp some bubble like detail.
A piece of 8 x 8 paper from the Color Me Happy Paper Collection from Glitz had a net like appearance and was the perfect color. I tore this in half to add a piece to each side of my spread and added some bubble wrap stamping to this too.
Once my paper was stuck down I then took a palette knife and some texture paste and ran some around the page borders. I had a home made texture stamp I had made using a hot glue gun on some cardboard so I used this to add texture to my paste border.
While this was wet I also took some netting I had left over from a previous Mail Box Muse Art Kit and cutting into random shapes added around my border. The wet texture paste helped this to stick in place.
Once the paste was dry I then used a mix of green and blue paints and covered everything.
This is a double page spread I created in my small Dylusions Art Journal.
Because I was not using paint on my initial background layer I choose not to Gesso my pages. I took some watery colors from my Gelatos and scribbled across the background before smearing and smoothing the color in with a baby wipe. I then used some Navy Blue Ink with some bubble wrap to randomly stamp some bubble like detail.
A piece of 8 x 8 paper from the Color Me Happy Paper Collection from Glitz had a net like appearance and was the perfect color. I tore this in half to add a piece to each side of my spread and added some bubble wrap stamping to this too.
Once the paste was dry I then used a mix of green and blue paints and covered everything.
While the paint was wet I also gave some thought to embellishing my border a little more. Dew Drops, Sequins or Beads from a recent op shop find? The Dew Drops and Sequins won out.
Then it was time to add all things fishy (collage sheet), a few shells, a star fish with some stamps and a old style diving helmet and text from some other papers I had left overs from. But before doing so I took out a green gelato and drew in some seaweed, and a with a blue water color pencil shaded around the internal edges of my border and also added some downward strokes across my watery background. My two larger fish were popped up a little with some foam dots. I long to discover all the secrets of the sea, but alas I think there are many that will remain hidden from us all.
Danie xx
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