Today's ATC happened in a round about way.
I had been looking at Julie Fei Fan Balzer's
Blog and this
post caught my eye. I have this book
Scraptastic by Ashley calder, but haven't spent much time on it, so I thought, why not?
This was one of the ideas in chapter 1. Stamped molding paste. I used an ivy leaf stamp which I have three sizes of. The colour was scrapings from chalk pastels, which I brushed on, and then wrote the text with a fine tipped brush and some watercolour. What I found was that it was easier to actually stamp the stamp in the chalk powder, then onto the molding paste, as I got a better image.
This is my practice page in one of my altered books.
And while we are at it, here are a few other more recent additions to these books.
This one I don't think is quite finished, but it has some interesting ideas on it. The black edge was liquid shoe polish spomged on, then when that was dry I sponged on some pale green watercolour. The ferns, or leaves, were just done with markers, but I am still thinking over the next step.
This page, as you can see, is the one facing the leaf page. Since I had my pastels out (which doesn't happen very often these days), I thought I would have a play. soft pastels are very concentrated pigment. what I did here was scrape them so that the powder was sitting on the page. Then I sprayed the page with water and stood the book up to let it drip. This reminds me of a wisteria arbour and i might actually turn it into one, but it needs thinking.
This was an experiment with waxed paper. I scrunched up a large piece of waxed paper, then opened it out and ironed it onto the paper. Then I put some dilute watercolour over the page and you can see the pattern it made, sort of a parchment type look or a leather look. (The splotches were on the page before I started).
These two are parts from a page that I used under my work on this and other occasions. Usually, I dampen the page before I start, so that and drips will spread on it.
A very papery day today, with not much stitch in it.
