Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Round 3 - Debs Addition to Wendy's Aphorisims Journal

Aphorisms- we are all loving being able to add quotes or sayings we love to our art work and this was the perfect opportunity for me to add one to a journal. I do tend to overthink things and try and be a perfectionist when being arty farty, when sometimes the simplest and easiest option is best. I have always loved the carefree style and colours of Picasso and the fact that he appeared so blase about his works sometimes irked me! Simple is HARD!
So I started with water colour paper I taped off then drew a face with angular lines through it. Looking on Pinterest for common facial features Picasso used, I picked my favorites and added them to the portrait. I then used water colour paints, Posca Paint pens and a black sharpie to finish off.

  
  I then added black acrylic paint to fill in the background of 2 pages of the Journal.                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                          
After the paint dried, I trimmed my portrait and stuck it down onto the first page. I then used Tim Holtz Marquee alphabet thinlit dies, to cut out the letters that formed my aphorism out of bright card stock. I used Matt gel medium to stick them down with and then covered the whole page with more Matt gel medium.


                                                                                                                                                                     At the very end when it had all dried, I used Black Onyx liquid pearl drops to create some texture on  each of the letters. It was something out of my comfort zone but I enjoyed it all the same.
       



7 comments:

  1. Wonderful, I love Picasso too.. and agree wholeheartedly trying to simplify is soooo hard. Love it. The colours are great and you have captured the whole vibe so well.

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  2. Deb, this is wonderful. Great colours and great saying, thank you very much.

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  3. Sorry I labeled it Roz's journal to start with Wendy... brain is having a moment lol..glad you like it though.its getting posted to Lisa G tomorrow:)

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  4. Oh Deb this is fabulous, what a gift.

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  5. Fantastic page, and yes I too suffer from over thinking, I dont think I know how to do simple.

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  6. What a great spread. Well done Deb!!

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  7. Awesome work Deb...wish it was mine...lol.

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