The Documented Life Project - The Journal has thus far been very inspiring and helped me to make time for my art journal. This, the second week, had a quote as a prompt: “The beginning is always today” by Mary Shelley, as well as a challenge to use gesso.
I began my pages with a covering of miscellaneous text and then added gesso through stencils.
I used
Pam Carriker's sheer acrylics as a base of color, first adding MUSTARD color to the page by drop-fuls (loving the applicator top to these bottles) and blending with a paintbrush. Amazing how little paint produces such a rich, but at the same time sheer, color. When that was dry I added the color RAIN to select areas with a sponge applicator and blended with my fingers. I love the way the paints picked up the texture in the gesso.
With a liner brush I used
Pam's ink, in the RUSTED color, to highlight areas of the gesso textures.
After a little rubber stamping, collage and stenciling, the spread is complete.
Thanks for visiting.
© Nancy Lefko
