Lastpage Clown

 

The very last page of my Large Dylusions Creative Journal! Now, I need to decide what to do with the  cover.  

As mentioned in a previous post, I did remove quite a bit of pages from the original Dylusions Jourbnal, because I was scared that once full it would bulge to much, but I think I took out more then I needed.  Anyway, doesn't matter, I'm on the last empty page.  And to fill it I decided to use a design I made in my #100daychallenge (day #39). I should do that challenge again btw. Or at least fill up the little booklet (60 pages left).  

For now I'll start with finishing this journal. 

It's become my go to, to start with some stencilling, stamping and toning it down with acrylic washes. That's what I did here too, I started with some purple acrylic stencilling followed with stamping a stamp from "Classic Flourish Filigree" and "Petals" from the stamping gear collection, both by Inkadinkado, with purple Archival Ink. This layer was followed by an aqua and white wash. I decided to make it more fun by adding different colors balloons. I just painted them on and added a last acrylic wash with zinkwhite . 

So  I decided to remake a clown face that I made on day 39 of the #100daychallenge but this tine bigger and colored with Copic markers and some details with Faber Castell Polychromos and  a  white posca pen. 

I glued it  down with a simple glue stick and added a little shadow border with a dark Grey Tombow  Marker N45.

Like the first page that I did last time, I used a quote on the other side of the page. "Starting Strong is GOOD, Finishing Strong is EPIC". I wrote it with a Pilot Sigma pen in a purple color, I added some shading in a lighter purple color with a Mildliner  and on  some of the letters I added a white border with a Posca pen. 

TO finish the page I added a border with rainbow colored posca's and the  black  is done with an Edding  pen (the oneI used on my coffee tables :)

Frontpage Girl

When I start a new journal, sketchbook or notebook I always skip the first page.  It's intimidating to find something and do it well enough for the first page, you do not want to mess it up, but once you already have some pages filled it doesn't matter that much anymore.  Now that only the last page is left, it's time to tackle the first one!

I worked on this page's background together with the background for the last page. 

So first I added a blue acrylic wash to the top part of the page and stencilled some white circles on top. On the bottom part I added dark green stencilled ovals and a yellow green wash layer I also stencilled some dark purple butterflies, mostly on the top part of the page. They  belong in the sky after all :) On  the bottom part I stencilled some flowers (Classic Flourish Filigree and Stamping gear petals both  from Inkadinkado) with Archival inks. 

I made a bigger version of a simple girl face that I drew on day 10 of the #100dayproject. 

I colored her with copic sketch markers and added some finishing touches with Faber Castell polychromos and a white posca pen. She is glued down with a simple glue stick and the surround shadow is done with a tombow dual brush pen in the color grey (N45).

The quote is written with (the not waterproof) Pilot  V-Signpen And to spice it up I added a shadow with posca pens. 

For  the border I  used a bright pink posca pen and a pink Gelly roll stardust pen. 

Kitty Gaze

 

This is page #44 in my big  Dylusions Artjournal, it'd the last full double page IN the Journal, I still have the first and last page blank, but from the inside, this is the last page. (I did take  some pages out about 2 years ago because I knew it was going to be a hefty book, and didn't want it to bulge to much. 

I've had the idea of having an animal stare in a girls eyes for some time, but didn't look forward to drawing/painting an animal. 

This page started with stencilled music notes with leftover black acrylic paint. I added some dark purple butterflies and dark green tiger stripes. To add a little more texture I also stamped some flowers from the stampset "Meadow" from Inkadinkado with Archival Ink in the color plum. At the top I added a light blue wash, at the bottom a green yellow one. Since this was a little bright I toned it down with a white wash. 

I added even more texture by blending some memento Paris Dusk and Danube Blue over different widths tape that are positioned diagonally.   

To frame my two characters I blended a border around 2 squares with memento ink grape jelly and elderberry.

I decided to try and paint the cat with gouache paints.  I got some Schmincke Academie gouache tubes for Christmas and  I've been scared to use them. Time to get over it. And I think it worked out ok. The girl I colored with my trusty Copics and some details with polychromos  pencils.  

Finally I finished the page with Edding black markers and some Poasca pens.