Tuesday 6 September 2011

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. 

7 comments:

  1. These pages are stunning Catherine. Thank you so much for the tutorial. I love learning how your process unfolds. It's unique and beautiful. xx

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  2. Very nice and so good of you to show us the process. I like both and normally lean to red but the green is just marvelous.

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  3. Lovely. Thanks for sharing that.

    I looked for you at the APQG on Sat but I must have missed you. We will have to catch up sometime, seeing as we are almost neighbours!

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  4. Thankyou all. Having so much fun with this way of doing pages.

    Rona I don't go to the guild meeting as I have young children still and my husband is a dairy farmer and works 7 days a week. One day I hope to take more of an active role : ) Where do you live?

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  5. Thanks SO much for the tutorial. I'm glad I finally made it to your blog!!! Keep up the great work.

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  6. One day maybe after school is done I want to try this. It probably won't look as cool as yours but it would be fun to experiment.

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  7. Hi Catherine, I live in Onehunga but my Mum is in Takanini so I'm down your way frequently.
    Rona

    email rona.keith at gmail etc. or leave a message on my blog.

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