Sketchbook tutorial

Today I want to show you how I have created this sketchbook page.  I have done this sketchbook page with the theme unfurled in mind......the unfurling of layers.

This Page has quite a few layers in it to get the depth of colour and textures. 

I used a old seed catalogue of my husbands.  I thought this fitted in really well with the theme and also was great for recycling and for the pocket book.  I glued 2 pages together as they needed to be thicker to take the acrylic paint I would be using. 

I squirted blobs of 3 colours of paint on the page.  I wanted to create an analogous colour scheme so I used yellow and red to get a third colour orange.  The white was added to create tints within those hues.  Using my fingers (lots of fun)  I spread the paint around the page

Using a palette knife I pulled the knife over the surface of paint to reveal some of the page underneath. 

I then took commercial stamps I have and pressed them into the wet paint.  this added extra texture into the paint and revealed more of the original magazine layer underneath.  I then left it to dry.

Next I took a cork and pressed it into white and yellow paint and stamped the cork over the page.  using my finger I blended the circular shapes into the page.

I took a lid of a container and dipped it into red paint and stamped that down the right hand edge of the page. I blended it in more with my finger.

Next I used a flower stencil and red paint all over the page.  Over the top of the page I printed a flower in white paint.  I had to this a couple of times as it was too transparent to start with.  Then I let it dry.

Using a white Inktense pencils I sketched some more white on the background and used water to blend it in.  Then I took a white pen and drew around the flower and drew white spirals on the background.



I added sliver pen over the white pen to give an extra shine.  Then added a silver box around the flower (this is hard to see) 

I love how the layers unfurl the more you look at this page. 

This is another page I have made using this same technique.