Dream

A weekend all to myself.  :)  No obligations to anyone else but me.  I managed to get my grass cut for the first time this season and watered.  Did some running around town and got supplies to fertilize my lawn and stuff for weeds.  Project for tomorrow.... because this evening I spent some quality time in my craft room and worked on another art journal page.  :) 

I gesso'd the page first.  I always gesso my pages because I find product always leaches thru the paper even though it is heavy paper meant for art journaling.  Nothing is more horrifying than when color leaks thru to a page done on the other side.  It's actually crushing when that happens and ruins a piece of work you really like.  This has happened to me already so now,,, gesso everything first!  ;) 

 

I used two shades of green distress paints and blended them with a brush in a vertical sweep up and down the page.  Once dried, I took a blue and white and did random sweeps overtop with a fine mist of water to make the blending easier and more integrated with the greens.  I then went back and did some more green and yellow in some areas and blended them with water too.  It almost had like an aurora borealis look to it.  It was pretty and I almost wanted to just to leave the back ground alone and not do anything more to it.  LOL  Next, I took a prima 12x12 stencil and Dylusion spray and misted thru onto the paper.  To color in the flowers and leaves I used Gelatos and blended them with my finger.  I used three different shades of blue and white for the flowers and three shades of green for the leaves.  I used chocolate for around the edges.  I used a Christy Riopel stencil, DREAM with distress paint and colored in the sentiment, then edged the word with Fabre Castel Big Brush Pitt pens in black and white along with gel markers.  I splattered the page with diluted white gesso and a fan brush and then with diluted black gesso and a fan brush.  I had some cute butterfly dimensional stickers that I wanted to use on the page and stuck them down.  I bought a tub of opaque white flake paste and brushed it into the centers of each of the flowers.  It has a unique texture to it. 

This page was pretty simple compared to the other ones I have done and it was nice to get a page that looks pretty done in a relatively shorter period of time.   :)  I am amazed each time I finish a page and stand back to look at it.  Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I could do anything like this.  I am having so much fun creating pages and just letting the paints and images happen.  I hope you like.  :)