Michelle Ward puts out a new challenge every month for her Green Pepper Press Street Team. This months Crusade is all about using paint and a scraping tool to create cool backgrounds by blending your paint without any use of a brush.
I knew exactly which book I was going to use for this exercise; my play book. I call it my play book because it is the book because it is the book that I play in. It was an old textbook which I found downtown with a sign, "free" over it. I love the way the text usually peeks through my art work, often times even providing inspiration for the work I do.
In the first page you can see where a sketch from the page before has bled through. The second image is of the three colors I choose to use; mama always said to design using 3's and 5's. The third image is of the background completed, I cheated a little and used my heat gun to speed up the drying process.
I have this great stencil of a robot which I used with white gesso and black paint in mirror images. The white robot I decided needed wings. I created the feather edge effect by using my card at angle and pushing the corner into the paint. I also used a oil board number stencil along the bottom for a border; I was using a lot of paint which made the stencil bleed. I liked the overall messy affect which it gave the pages and the thickness I laid it on gave the page more dimension.
I let the pages dry over night and came back today with paint pens in hand. I outlined the robot images with more detail, as well as the number border along the bottom. Since I am a writer at heart, I also did a quick hand written journal entry on either side with contrasting color. I like the way my curly que hand writing is very different from the very linear robots and numbers. Overall, I am very excited about the way my pages turned out and will keep my scraping technique in my back pocket of tricks.
Continuing the adventure,
Jessica
I am a gypsy-souled storyteller and idea machine. I recently left Riverside California to find a new home with a community of creatives and followers of Jesus in Düsseldorf Germany. I love Paul Boctor, words, and sunshine. This is an adventure of going, creating, and learning to live on purpose.
