What We Need

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge]
[Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start challenge]
[Challenge win: Winner at Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge]

Here’s a recent art journal page of mine –

I made this on a wax paper page that I’d included in my journal. Last time I used wax paper for a spread, I’d added acrylics and washi tape for the base, and I thought that didn’t quite test how I can work with wax paper. So this time around, I decided to experiment on this page with watercolors.

I mostly played using watercolor cakes, smearing the colors with my brush, making various shapes and marks, and trying out some drips. Since the page is slightly glossy, it prolonged the drying time of the watercolors, and made them easy to mix together. I’d like to try out this combination of paint and paper again sometime.

To move on with my artsy session, I added outlines and accents inside and around the watercolored spots using a black fineliner, a white gel pen, and a white Posca marker. I also made some watercolor and acrylic splatters.

For the focal flower, I used scrap graph paper for a die cut, adhered the die cut over the background, and added fineliner outlines. I then adhered a pre-printed quote, and outlined it with a fineliner as well. Ta da!

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With this page, I’m joining these challenges –

• 613 Avenue Create Mar Challenge – Anything Goes
• Creative Artiste Challenge #91 – Anything Mixed Media Goes
• Mixed Media Lovers Challenge #23 – Focal Point
• A Place To Start Mar Challenge – Anything Goes

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