Art Journal Cover ...

I recently moved flat, same block, different floor ... What a pain that was, in some ways I'm sure that it was more intense than moving towns!

Anyway, while arranging the craft cupboard, amongst all of the the lovely stash, that I have far to much of to use in one lifetime 🙂 I found a rather nice 'naked' album, with kraft paper pages, which was great, because it was just what I needed for a new coarse that I am doing, it's called The Savvy Supply School. The aim of the coarse is to show crafters, that great art can be made even on a low budget, that we don't have to have all the branded products of we prefer not too.

The album I found in the cupboard became the star of the of the show, during the first tutorial, called Mark Making....

 I began in the usual way by preparing the from cover using White Gesso, while it was drying I started looking through the flat, for bits & bobs that I could use to make marks or interesting shapes, no paint brushed used here LOL

So, I chose a piece of Hessian (dark blue) a straw (green circles) a tablet blister pack (yellow) a metal bookmark (orange) & a leaf shaped cookie cutter (red) I also tried using the bottom of a fir cone, but it wasn't very successful. After making marks, I edged the sides of the album using blue, green & gold pastels on 3 sides only, smudging them to blend in. Next, I gesso'd & painted a large resin piece, before embellishing it with some good wax!

I used DecoArts Fluid Acrylic Paint on the cover & DecoArt Acrylic Metalic Paint & Cosmic Shimmer Wax on the resin!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

http://moremixedmediachallenge.blogspot.com