Like a magnet, I am attracted color and texture. Smack! A beautiful color combination or an interesting patch of texture can draw me in and make me want more, and more!
After painting or gel printing, I can create interesting leftovers when I clean off my brayer, stencils, or other tools on various papers. Love the randomness and unintentional designs that appear, as if by magic.
Although I enjoy trying different things, when I use paint I come home. Mainly, I adore acrylics. Last Sunday I focused on painting over a single page in my new little handmade one-signature 6” x 7” book. My intention was to create a background for attaching a fabric trim. This page was already painted on hot-press watercolor paper but I gessoed over it which created a nice base for what happened next.
Here is my original inspiration. If it had been larger, I would have simply glued it in. But it was a little short.
Not sure which exact paints I’d used in the original, I began using both fluid and high flow acrylics and then branched out and invited some acrylic inks into the mix. Using plastic cards, palette knives, a comb, and an occasional brush stroke I got interesting effects since some of my fluid acrylics are pretty old and drying out, making the paint thicker.
Now I really like this page. Will I leave it just as it is or add the 3-D element (green trim with beads I sewed on)? Here's how it might look if I attached it.
