This is my most recent journal spread from an Art Geeks prompt "Flowers For Her Hair". The prompt called for some kind of quilting effect in the spread. I started by putting gesso on my pages, once that was dry I chose two colors of blue and painted the pages (I didn't cover all of it with the blues, left some white spots), I tore small squares from several different scrap papers and then glued them down with matte medium in a random pattern making sure I didn't put the same designs next to each other and leaving a few blocks of the blue paint showing. After that dried I put a watery wash of gesso on top, then wiped some of it away with a baby wipe. I used stamps and stencils with different colors of acrylic paint to add more effects to the background. On a separate piece of sketch paper I drew my girls face and a bit of her hair, then cut her out and glued her to the page using matte medium. I then colored her and her hair using watercolor pencils and acrylic paints. I used a homemade rose stencil with several colors of purple to add some juicy layers to her hair, then used a purple gel pen to outline. I added some cute little blue flowers to kind of bring her together with the background and using my fingers to wipe paint on added some light blue paint to take a few areas down a bit. I like how it turned out but also see some areas I would like to improve but I'm not going to touch this one anymore it will be improved on in the next spread. I am calling this one finished. Thanks for viewing!
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