Addendum to my Art Journaling post.

I found the other picture that I wanted to post last time.  I decided that if I was going to photograph each one, I needed to set up an Art Journal folder for the jpegs.  So I searched and found it, and now there's a file created for each one.

Yellow acrylic paint over gesso, applied with a baby wipe.  Green acrylic around edges with a sponge dauber, and the flowers were a stamp using acrylic paint.  the flower stems were free handed, and the butterflies are die cuts. Accents and highlighting done with a variety of markers and pencils.  The "without change, there would be no butterflies" is stamped with archiver's ink and individual letter stamps (99cents at Walmart in a sale bin).  The leaf border was done with a sponge and a stencil that I found laying around from years ago when we used to stencil windows with watercolors with the kids.

This was fun page, and was fun trying mixing media.

I am not real happy with the book I chose to begin journaling in. It's originally a sketch pad, thin paper and lots of fiber. I am gluing two pages together for each entry. It'll use up the book faster that way, too. By using a base coat of gesso, it makes the pages so things don't soak through.

The learning continues.

Until next time,
Peace,
JE