14.5.12

Rain Fower

 The start of a new altered book page - starts with a blank, unprepared page... then the addition of pastels, which I painted with rubbing alcohol to transform from dusty smudgyness, to painterly colour...

The in-between step I forgot to photograph!  I added more pastel over this base layer, then I lightly dabbed on clear gesso.  This seals the pastel, AND provides a surface with lots of texture and tooth.
I then started working into the basic idea I had of clouds, then a face popped up, then a flower... and this is what come into life...





I used some pastel pencils and mainly prisma colour pencils to work over the clear gesso - the prismas are so soft they just melted into the clear gesso.

I love how the underneath page still floats through to the surface, and the transparent layers, and the colours...the perfect way to spend an hour!

6 comments:

  1. Wonderful page! Looks like a scene from a dream.

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  2. Gorgeous, soft, so etherial....dreamy.

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  3. thanks so much for your lovely comment! I think that dreamy quality comes with all the transparent layering - it's one of my favourite things to do.

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  4. this is so effective Linda! I am using an altered book for my About Me journal, and might try some pastels in there, I like the colour they give to the background. I love the way you've layered it up and the way some of the original text still shows through!

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  5. Thanks! And remember you'll need to use something to seal the pastel in - alcohol, clear gesso etc... and a dabbing motion rather than strokes... have fun with your journal!

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