MAGAZINE GESSO IMAGES (TAKE 2)

 This technique is one I'm revisiting and was last done by some of the girls way back in 2011. I used fashion magazines for the images.You used to be able to pick up these magazines in the op shops but they are quite hard to find now unless you're prepared to fork out big $$$ to buy them at the newsagent. In this class, we'll be dry-brushing gesso over a magazine image and then repainting whatever areas you want to alter using watercolours or acrylic paints. You don't have to stick to realism, they can be as weird as you want. 😉

"Be creepy"


"Your coffin or mine"


"Shine brightly"
(Adam never looked so sparkly!)

"Not what they seem"
(I'm not sure if anyone will 'get' this one...
do you know what B.O.B. is? 😏)


"Dieting"

"Stronger"

WATERCOLOUR STRIP PAINTING

 This title could be slightly confusing. The watercolour pictures were painted first, then cut into strips and attached to colour-coordinated Gelli prints that show through the gaps in the strips. I used some atc's that I had made in various other classes but if making them for this technique, you need to keep your main imagery towards the centre as the watercolour picture ends up only 5cm wide before you cut it down and you don't want to lose too much detail from your edges. This technique would also be great for a card and you can afford to be a bit more generous with your artwork as you're working on a larger area.

I used Daniel Smith watercolour paints for 3 of these samples, Distress Watercolour Pencils for 2 of them and finally, sparkly gel pens along with Pilot G-Tec C4 coloured gel pens that activate with water for the final one. The moth one with the gel pen colouring was the only one with a stamped image, all the rest were hand painted. 

"Every colour"
(The trees were painted with Distress
Watercolour Pencils then outlined with
a Pilot Black G-Tec C4 gel pen.)


"Collect Beautiful Moments"
(Painted with Daniel Smith watercolours.)


"Live gently"
(Painted with Sodalite Genuine and Hematite
Genuine Daniel Smith watercolour paints
which are both granulating colours.)

"Tomorrow"
(Painted with Daniel Smith watercolours.)


"Small beginnings"
(Painted with Distress Watercolour Pencils.)

"Attitude"
(Stamped image coloured with sparkle gel pens
and Pilot G-Tec C4 coloured gel pens which
bleed when activated with water.)