Here we are at Terminal 1

Hello Vintage Travelers, it' S@ndy with you today.

Here we are at Terminal 1 so let's see what we have in the travel bag this month.

 

Product - any ink or acrylic paint

Technique - brayering

Color - pale blue

Substrate - book

 

 Since part of the challenge is a book I've gone to my art journal.  The great thing about an art journal is that it's an opportunity to play and experiment - no right or wrong. 

 

 

  Everyone is excited about and playing with the new Distress Oxide Inks and I am no exception so I took this opportunity to do just that - play. 

 

The first thing I think of when I hear "brayer" is Gelli Plate so I got mine out for this project.  I first put some PaperArtsy Fresco Finish, Buff, on the plate and then used my brayer to spread it out.  Next dropped some Oxide Reinker, Broken China, and then spread it out with the brayer.

Since oxide inks are opaque I used black paper.  I pressed the paper on the Gelli Plate and got the results shown above.  I did this twice for a two page spread shown below.

 

Tear all the edges by pulling forward, leaving a black edge all around.

    

 

Next came stamping, I masked off the parts of the stamp that I did not want, stamped and repeated the process for the second page.  Archival Black ink was used because I will later add more stamping and stenciling.  This way the ink will not run or blur.

This stamp by Tim Holtz is perfect for this project because I am simply doing what I love, playing. Using a background stamp, I stamped randomly all over using Archival Ink.

 

My two journal pages were prepared by covering the first page with black paper, tearing the edges of the next two pages and finally covering the fourth page with black.   Peeled Paint Distress Oxide was added to the edges then randomally stamped with two different background stamps using Archival Ink once again.  More Broken China ink was added to the center to cover the binding. The pages were then adhered to the black pages using matt medium.

 

Add the blue panels.

 

Using a fun stencil from Art Anthology, I stenciled the face in black. 

 

Last week while watching a YouTube video I saw the artist stamp an image on tissue paper and add to the page using matt medium so I decided to try it.  I used a Jane Davenport stamp, you will see her in the corner of the page.  This technique worked very well and I will try it again.  Some hearts were added using a Tim Holtz stencil.  Since I love orange - I just had to add some to the pages.  I added the orange by dropping some Orange Marmalade Oxide reinker on my craft mat and then applying with a paint brush.  To get a smoother look I smugged it with my fingers while still wet. 

I was happy with the page and the colors but thought it still needed more. Using a stencil brush and the Faded Jeans Oxide ink pad I stenciled on some Harlequin design in a random manner.

 

For the final step, some gesso was watered down and splattered on using a fan brush.

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my play time and will take some time to play for yourself.

Have a creative week,

S@ndy