While creating the Art Journaling Basics series, it seemed like there was not much time for much art journaling.  Ironic, right?  There are several backgrounds ready to go from the video on creating backgrounds, so I decided to grab one and use one of the vintage images from yesterday’s post.

Here’s how it this art journal page was created:

• Applied gesso to a book page
• Applied a light watercolor wash to page
• Printed vintage image and did image transfer using a gel medium. You could easily just print it, cut it out and use it as is.
• Stamped sea shells in the corner of image
• Spritzed a bit of ink from markers to make specks of color
• Printed quote; cut out; used matte medium to adhere
• Used matte medium over image to seal and brushed a bit over the stamped shells
• Used waterproof, black fine-point pen to do rough, sketchy line under quote sections
• Randomly dabbed a bit of white on the page

As the vintage image was getting a light layer of matte medium to seal it, I noticed that the first sea shell it touched was beginning to bleed.  I liked the way it softened the edges of the stamped images, and I continued to lightly brush the medium over the other stamped shells.  Then I realized it was causing the ink to look totally different.  You could see more of the red in the brown!  If I had wanted to make sure the water based ink did not begin to bleed with other layers added, I would have needed to use a workable fixative before using any other waterbased products in layering.

Grab your art journal and make a page before the Artful Adventures’ train leaves this station!  Then come over and share it on the Facebook Group page!

Wishing your Artful Adventures!