Reading

This page started the day I glued the printed tissue paper for page  #15 "Print and Doodle flowers" that I finished on 18 June 2021. I just decided to glue the same tissue paper along the top of a random page. 

It stayed untouched l until I had a sketch of a reading girl in my sketchbook. This page was the perfect starting point for a background for her. So I redrew her on the page and then decided I would first color her and then finish a background. Until now I always colored the background before coloring the main image. The only thing I did is adding a light layer of transparant Zinc White acrylic from Amsterdam to mute the black printing. 

For the first time I decided to color the face with watercolor paint. A couple of months ago I got the White Nights pastel paints and I wanted to give them a proper try. And I also used some of my Schmincke paints. Watercolor is not my comfort medium, but I think it turned out good enough to add some color pencil details. 

So that is what I did I used my Faber-Castell polychromos to add some depth and extra shading.

Then I started working on the background with Blending Distress Inks in the colors: Milled Lavender, Seedles Preserves and wilted Violet.

The golden glasses were added with a Uniball Signo pen.  I wasn't totally happy with the background so I wrote a passage of Alice in Wonderland in my messy handwriting along the top, mostly over the print but peaking out from it. I used Purple and Pink Pilot Juice pens 0.35. The passage I wrote is where Alice talks to the Cheshire cat in the tree.  Since I wrote the Alice passage I decided to title the Book Alice in Wonderland and drew the rabbit on the back cover. 

Finally I added some stencilled writing with Distress Ink Black Soot and the Dusty concord around the edges to finish the page.