GESSO OXIDE CHRISTMAS BACKGROUNDS

 This year, as every year, the final class is always a Christmas theme.  During the year I spend time trawling for Christmas images and Christmas quotes to use for this specific class.  The technique for this background is a simple gesso and Distress Oxide ink pad class on watercolour card.  As long as you don't cover all of your card with gesso, you will get varying degrees of colour when applying the Distress Oxide, even when you are just using one colour as the sample below shows.  This first one has only Milled Lavender on it, apart from a smudge around the edge of Black Soot.  Of course, if you spritz with water after inking, you will remove the ink and get back to the white of the gesso so there's lots of room for playing with this background technique.  Yes, I had to include a couple of my more naughty ones, I wouldn't be me if I didn't!  😏

I'll be back early February for Book #25!

"Dark Christmas"

"BRB"


"Cole"

(The black lumps down the bottom are black

texture paste coal lumps)


"Wine"


"Balls sparkle"

"Fat in August"