Monday, March 7, 2016

Jan's Faces Journal

For the past to days, I have had the pleasure to work in Jans' beautiful 'Faces' journal. I really had no ideas as to what I wanted to do, so the first thing was for me to get rid of the white page and get some background colour down. I glued down some torn text papers and then started sponging on bright coloured acrylic paints. I used a few stencils and the result you can see below...



Once I was happy with the background, Ideas started flowing...even though I can't draw a face for the life of me...lol...I decided to cut a mask out of thick watercolor paper and I think this is when the idea of wearing a mask, covering our true emotions came from.

I used a grey blue as a base for the face and I painted and decorated the thick piece of watercolor paper for a mask. I decided to leave the underlying face relatively plain, except for one eye with a tear drop falling from it.



 So when the mask is lifted, you see one of  many emotions a persons can hide when you are staring them in the face.
I really enjoyed working in Jans' journal and am hoping you like the page. Thank you.

8 comments:

  1. I love this page Wendy, excellent idea and beautiful work - your background is awesome.

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  2. Wonderful page and interpretation of the theme. Great background and love how you created the flip over mask. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Wonderful page and interpretation of the theme. Great background and love how you created the flip over mask. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. Hi Wendy, sorry I didn't comment on this previously! It was the day before i went in to hospital to have surgery on my elbow!! The page is fantastic. I love the colours and the creativity of the idea is so well executed. I hope you have done a copy for yourself in a journal at home. I know i will treasure my copy in my journal. I have duplicated quite a few of the pages i have done in other peoples journals in my own journals here at home. They always come out ever so slightly different but that is the thing with an original work of art.hehe

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