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A couple posts ago I told you about the 5-Day Postcard Challenge Tracy Weinzapfel was teaching on Facebook. I loved the class and I actually completed the entire thing. That doesn't happen very often for me when I take an online class. I usually make it through 2 or 3 lessons and get bored. Not with this class! And when it was over I just wanted to keep drawing and painting flowers. Last night I made this easy journal page. Let me show you some of the steps. 


I was working with a Grumbacher Mixed Media Journal that has pull out pages. You can remove the page to work on, then put it back in the book when you are done. I had previously used a page to collect the roll off paint from the brayer when I gelli printed. I never really know what to do with those pages but don't want to waste product so I keep making them when I monoprint. So I selected this page and started building my flowers. 



After detailing the petals, I added a dark blue watercolor all around the negative space between the florals. This process worked great when I was making the postcards. Not so great this time. I could not get the color any darker. It just seemed to float on my page. Weird. So I gave up and continued with my page. 




Here you can see the edges of the paper. The pages pull out easily and pop back in easily. To complete my page I added some sentiment stamps in the flower centers and used a white Sharpie paint pen (water based) to add those white lines. 


















Here is a close up of the actual art. I like how you can still see the rolloff color from before underneath the entire page. I like to use this journal for practicing before I commit to my nice Hahnemühle papers. I can already see this becoming a 'thing' for me. Thanks, Tracy!


Comments

  1. Sandra StraitJanuary 17, 2021 at 10:00 PM

    This is sooooooo beautiful! Watercolor doesn't adhere well to acrylic, so that's probably why you couldn't get the color to deepen.

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    1. AliceJanuary 17, 2021 at 10:13 PM

      Thanks! It’s a learning process for sure hahaha

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  2. MariamGJanuary 17, 2021 at 11:15 PM

    Beautiful art and much needed sentiments! Thank you, Alice!!🙏🤗

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    1. AliceJanuary 18, 2021 at 10:24 AM

      thank you so much! I agree with you - these words are just what we need these days

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  3. RoseanneJanuary 18, 2021 at 8:14 AM

    I love the vibrancy of the colors. Beautiful.

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    1. AliceJanuary 18, 2021 at 10:22 AM

      thank you! on this I used the Prima set of watercolors called The Classic

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  4. Evy BrowningJanuary 21, 2021 at 6:08 AM

    Just seen Sandra's comment above - I wondered if that might be the answer, so I learnt something too!! Thank you both. Love this piece - it's so dramatic & beautifully eye-catching. The black & white linework is so SO effective & the orange pops boldly against the wishy washy blue....... I think you ended up with a better effect than it would have been if solid for the blue vibrancy would have competed against the orange.

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    1. AliceJanuary 21, 2021 at 6:18 PM

      I am having trouble leaving replies again. hopefully it's just the internet not cooperating. this one was a fun one for me. I plan on doing this idea more with my roll off pieces of paper

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