Travel door

a couple of months ago I read a book Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, a story about a couple fleeing their country through a door that brings them to another part of the world.

When I saw a page in my big dylusion journal where I had already stencilled some bricks on I was inspired to make page with a lot of faces coming though a door. 

I didn't like the background at first but after a couple of layers of stencilling and adding a green border I'm ok with it. 

If I remember correctly the first layer was actually a blue acrylic though a brick stencil, but I didn't like it so I added a white wash through a chevron stencil. then I used the original brick  stencil but with a pink acrylic and some white. Around some of the bricks I Highlighted with metallic gel pens in purple and blue. The last stencilling layer was the grey spiraling thingies. They made the whole less flat. In the middle I added a door/portal where the faces are coming out. The background is finished with a green border to tie in with the faces' green eyes. 

All the faces are colored with copics finished some Polychromos details. I really enjoyed making those :)