Gypsy by Pam.

Another month, another beautiful Art Journal delivered to my home.  In September I received the amazing and imaginative Gypsy Journal by Louise.  Loaded with brilliant art by my fellow artists.  And so, another panic attack by me.  What should I do?, will it be good enough? I hope so.

Finally an image in a magazine prompted an inspiration for me to follow.  My spread would be a Gypsy camp. And so it began:

To begin, some background.  I stuck down some tissue for texture and painted the  sky and foreground. Then I did some stencils and stamping to add some forest types to background.

Next I drew the campfire and coloured it with Neocolor11, water colour crayons. added some highlights to the flames with glitter gel pen. I painted some paper and punched out some rocks to surround the fire and glued it all down.

Next I had a frantic search for my inspirational image, which was the caravan.  After turning the house upside down, I finally found it on the kitchen table?? I thought it was in another title. I copied the image and cut it out and stuck it down as well.

This is actually the finished spread and you can see I have added a lot more greenery with leafy die cuts.  A little pen work added a quote...."In winter I plot and plan. In spring I move."

Here is a close up of the camp fire.

I hope it lives up to Louise's expectations.  It was a real pleasure to add to her lovely Art Journal.