Friday, May 1, 2009

More Art Journal Pages

I've acquired a bit of a backlog on these; after not doing any for a while I sat down the other night and did like six of them. Several are continuing Leah's April theme of color. The third one is bits of color cut out from magazines and arranged in chromatic order. I don't remember now where I got the idea, though I know I read it on someone or other's blog. Not Leah's, as far as I can tell. Whoever came up with the idea, thanks!





Then there's this one, in cobalt blue and iridescent copper, with a washed-out printout of the art in the last post, which I had been using to attempt to make some kind of transfer print with, as I'd had another print out accidentally get wet and end up sticking to another piece of paper and transferring the color over quite nicely. My first attempt with watercolor paper was too blurry and I think it was too wet; but I shall see if I can't figure it out. The texture of the cobalt and copper is really quite astonishing, though you can't really tell:



And this one, which started on another page with blocks of color laid down in oil pastels; but it was sticky so I put down a bunch of acrylic over it in a labyrinth pattern and ended up covering it with several layers of gloss acrylic gel, mostly because I had a new jar of the stuff. When I opened it up a couple days later the entire top layer peeled off; so I stuck that down upside-down onto another page.



And then there's this one, a vision board to get me working on the herb garden I want to put in in the back:



I do apologize for the quality of the photos. It would appear photography is not my strong suit. They were too large to just scan in.

3 comments:

Rose said...

I am really liking these pages. I love copper but I have never tried it with cobalt blue - what a striking combination. I also want to have a go with the little squares...

Leah said...

oooo, gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!! love these pieces, thalia!

ked'a said...

You are sooooo fantastic!

May is for making. And un-May-King.