Being Brave!
I have managed to get behind with virtually all my self-imposed deadlines at the moment, so I have decided to be very brave, not to even try playing catch up, but just to do the things I feel drawn to! So… today I finished last Friday’s assignment from Carolyn Dube’s Use Your Words workshop. This is such a cool workshop!
The first part of the assignment was to create a background sheet for cutting up. I used homemade letter stencils, white gesso, an Artist Cellar letter stencil, and gel medium. After I scanned it, I cut it up into five pieces.
The second part was to create a journal page incorporating a collage made using a piece cut from the background sheet. My collage is made up of a hand cut tag painted with acrylic paint, the piece of background sheet, two scraps of material, some paper lace painted with acrylic paint, and a bird cut from foam and coloured using acrylic paint. The words were added using a uniball eye pen – which is supposed to be waterproof – but as you can plainly see, didn’t survive the background sprays without joining in the colour runs! (the sprays were ink and twinkling H2O’s). But I wasn’t too upset as I think the runs just add to the feeling of movement on the right hand page. What do you think?
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Replies...Carolyn Dube
February 19, 2013 at 22:06:52
Your paper and journal spread turned out wonderfully! I agree that the pen bleeding turned out to be a good thing! I have found that some waterproof pens (esp. from office supply stores) need time to dry (like an hour or more). I am not a patient person so I rarely let them dry long enough…
eunice
February 19, 2013 at 22:21:20
Thank you for visiting Carolyn. I agree with you about the pens. The writing on the left page was done yesterday and that didn’t bleed. Whereas the writing on the right page was done just before the spraying! I may have to invest in some ‘quality’ pens!