Hello there! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today it's Linda's turn with her very first post for the team. Linda made an awesome mixed media art journal collage and shares her process in a video. Enjoy!
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Hi there, my first project done as member of Birgits MixedMedia Art Crew and I have to say being part of this crew is a big thing for me and I feel grateful for the big opportunity Birgit has given me in trusting me to show of her products in the best way. The way I can do that is to be genuine to my own style (that for me sometimes can vary from day to day) and I’m so happy that Birgit encourages us to stay true to our own way of creating.
For ‘This is me’ I’ve made an art journal page. I work in handmade art journals and I do make most of them myself, but this one is actually made for me by my good friend Sandi. I just added an extra brown bag for this page so I have a pocket for a tag. It also gave me an extra folder to make the page even more interesting.
The video shows how I prepare the background with collage and acrylic paint. The collage paper with Gelli prints and acrylic was made ahead but specific for this project. I love using animal heads on my images, that impersonates them and it makes me free when creating my pages and collages. Hope you like it and any feedback on the video is appreciated.
The text had some illustrations in bright red and blue. I painted small pink dots and used a black and white marker to draw the flowers.
The inside of the folder was suitable for this thinking bird and had to give her some good advice on the way.
The page with the folder closed and fastened with two TH clips. Her you can see the tag placed in the pocket
Guess I’m ready then :-)
Tag:
The tag is first painted with clear gesso and when dry I had drops of ink on it and used a brayer to spread the ink, I also sprayed some water on it to spread the ink even more. When the tag then was dry I stamped with Versa Mark and added gold embossing. At the end I blended the ink with some white acrylic and painted the edges of the tag.
Stamps and mask used for this project
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