Journal Page with Plaster

I was inspired by Donna Downey when I made this spread.  I first collaged the page with some black and white images and bits from a phone book page.  After the collage was dry I spread patching plaster roughly over the page making sure that some of the collage still showed through.  When that was completely dry I sealed it in with gel medium and let that dry.  Next I made a glaze from glazing medium and a blue paint and covered the surface leaving in on for about a minute.  I used baby wipes to wipe it off so that it was just stuck in all the cracks and crevices.  I let that layer dry and then I painted on my roads and glued on the tag that I had written some of the Robert Frost poem and let it dry.  I filled in around the road and tag using a couple of different colors of green chalk pastels.  I rubbed them in and blended with my fingers.  After everything was dry and looked the way that I wanted it to look I fixed the pastels with a fixative and let it dry.  I added my own words at the end.  I hope that you enjoy this journal page and the poem.    

Have a great week,
Janelle

Summer of Color Week Six

This was the last week of summer of color.  The colors for this week are sage green and sepia.  I had a lot of fabric dyed in these colors already so I didn't have to make any new fabrics.  I made three cuffs since I had so much fabric. I recently bought a bag of vintage costume jewelry as well, so I picked a bit to go on each cuff.  These colors seem to fit the vintage style really well.  I want to say thank you to Kristin for organizing such a fun event.  I have enjoyed playing along each summer.  

I also had time to make a journal page in the last week.

I made a steampunk cuff in a more masculine style as well this week.  

I hope you enjoy seeing what art I have been creating this past week.  I hope that everyone has a marvelous weekend.
Janelle

Summer of Color Week Five

This week for Summer of Color the colors were Candy Apple Red and Yellow.  These are not colors that I usually work with except as accents.  But I'm willing to try any combination at least once.  I started by dyeing some fabrics red since I didn't have any fabric in that color.  I already had a couple of yellow fabrics from a previous year.   Here are the fabrics that I worked with to make the cuffs.  I have a cotton in both colors and also red silk and cheesecloth.  

I also had the chance to paint in my journal this weekend, so I'll share that page too.  This page has gesso sprayed through a stencil in the background and then I painted with Twinkling H2O's over the top and added some text.

I hope that you have a wonderful and creative week and I will post again next week.
Janelle

Summer of Color Week Four

This week for summer of color the challenge was to work with pale pink and charcoal gray.  I really love how these colors work together. I wanted to make these cuffs have a touch of elegance within the shabbiness of the fraying fabrics and the cheesecloth. I do love how the frayed edges look, so I use them in most of my textile work.  I hope that you enjoying seeing the cuffs that I made this week and stay tuned for next week's project.  

These are the fabrics that I dyed for this week.  The darker pink silk on the top was in the same dye bath as the charcoal gray cotton, but turned out very different.  I love dyeing cotton and silk at the same time because you tend to get different looks because the fibers take up the dye differently.  

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I also have a couple of pages in my journal to share again.  The first one is from a Lifebook lesson.  In the second one I was playing around with doodling on a stenciled image and making a gratitude page.  

Have a great weekend.
Janelle