This is the final week of Traci’s workshop so here is my final page.  I didn’t have the glaze or collage pauge that Traci used but I made do with watered down PVA glue and just added water to some acrylic paint as a glaze (over the face).  I did more doodles on news print as the original ones I did would have been too big.

Week 3 of Traci’s workshop over at Strathmore has 2 parts and this background page and doodles are for part 1.
The writing that is partially covered up reads ‘ don’t think just do it NOW’.  I am trying to be more spontaneous but I still over think a page and it ends up taking me ages to do.
The background page is a mixture of acrylics, a little watercolour and a little gel medium (I only have that one pot of medium but it is a bit thick) on Strathmore Visual Journal.  I used permapaque pens for the writing.  The doodles are waterproof India ink on newsprint.

Week 2 of Traci Bautista’s worshop at Strathmore is about creating watercolour backgrounds so here is a page I did for that.  In real life it is even more vibrant as I used some neon watercolour sprays which turned out to be permanent (I guess they have some kind of binder in them), the orange on this photo appears dull.

Paint:  Reaves watercolour tubes:  Sap green Chinese white and Medium yellow, Derwent Auatone crayon Zinc yellow, Derwent Inktense pencil Apple green, Dylusions ink spray Vanilla custard, Zia’s neon watercolour sprays.
Card: Strathmore visual journal watercolour 140lb
Other:  fabric flower, spray bottles

This is the first page in my new art journal inspired by the Traci Bautista online workshop over at the Strathmore site.  It didn’t start out quite like this as I had sprayed a lovely elderberry colour over some stencils first but by the time I did a bit of washing over the entire surface it took most of the elderberry out.  Never mind, I love the effect I achieved eventually.

Inks:  India ink
Paint/sprays:  Adirondack color washes Terracota, Pesto, and Butterscotch, Chroma jewels Elderberry (most of this came out), Dylusions acrylic paint Avocado, Cornflower and Tangerine and Purple, Lumier Sunset gold (mixed in with the Tangerine)
Card:  Strathmore visual journal  (140lb)
Other:  white inksential pen, black Pitt pens, orange and green Sharpie poster paint pens, oil pastels to highlight areas