Tangle Flowers

Although this page is mostly orange, it started out with a light purple wash. I drew simple flowers on masking paper and cut them out to use as a negative stencil. I stuck them all over the page leaving a gap for a face. Then I covered the whole page with yellow, orange and dark orange acrylic paint. I added a second darker layer over a flower stencil to have some more depth in the background. 

After taking away the masking paper the flowers stood out light purple on the orange. I do love to tangle and haven't been doing it enough. So this time I decided to draw tangles end lots of lines. Because I do like lines. 

Since the flowers are quite busy I decided to keep the girl simple with mostly outlines and some highlighting with yellow acrylic paint.  The whole is finished with a simple border. 

The problem is that my phone's camera color corrects the flowers to blue if I do not use a flash. 

See the difference a flash makes on the picture: The bottem one is more the real color. 

Thanks for visiting!

Flower Girl

 

This page is #32 in my Dylusions journal, this means 2/3 of my journal is full. (I took some pages out when I was about 10 pages in because it was starting to be too thick due to all the texture in it.)

As a first layer I used Amsterdam Acrylics in the colors Turkoise blue and Turkoise green. 

Then I added some Titanium white with a brayer over a big flower stencil. Since I wanted some contrast I added some stamping with bubblewrap in the color Nickel titan yellow but it didn't have the effect I was hoping for. It is not contrasting enough. 

At the same time I was working on this page I also needed to make a card for a wedding. While I was embossing some paper, I made some extra just to see how it would look and to have it on hand. Afterwards the embossed papers lingered on my desk when I continued to work on this page. That's when I got the idea to spray the embossed paper with pink and purple inks and us it on this page. Why did I never think of this before?? It gives a very nice dimension to the page and I have plenty of embossing folders that I hardly use. The one I used here is "Modern Wallpaper" by Cuttlebug.

After tearing pieces and gluing it down I shaded the edges with Inktense pencils and blended with a damp brush.  I love the contrast between the purple and turkoise and I'll definitely use more of the embossed papers in the future.

In continuation of all the faces in this journal I decided to keep it simple and draw a girl with some flowers in het hair. The face and hair are colored with acrylics, the flowers with Faber Castell polychromos colored pencils.

To finish the page of I darkened the edges with Distress inks and a blending brush. 

Thanks for reading, the next page is another girl with flowers, but the look is completely different. So be sure to check back next week!