Look Within Yourself

[Challenge win: Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge]

Here’s a recent, quick art journal spread of mine –

I made this spread on pages that I’d used tea to dye, which gives them a brownish tinge.

I started out with some gel plate fun. I used acrylics with a stencil to fill up the page with circle shapes. I then used the gel plate again with white acrylics at the edges of the spread.

I then made a central split using black acrylics; I applied them on a scrap card and ran the card along the center, giving it occasional little twists for some dense foliage. I then added mirrored sketches of trees using a black fineliner.

For the quote, I fussy cut a printed message and adhered it over the background. I added light coloring using watercolors, and some fineliner outlines. Ta da!

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With this spread, I’m joining these challenges –

613 Avenue Create July Challenge – Anything Goes (optional twist: Black and White)

Arty Divas July Challenge – Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers July Stencil Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

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