More Journal Pages - Strathmore Workshop

Tribute to the Pottery Barn Catalog

I did these two pages last night...two things I've taken from the workshop thus far:  choose materials that are similar in color....it doesn't matter what the subject...and create your page;  and use your charcoal pencil to add shadow to make things "pop".

All of the collage elements I cut out of the catalog.  

When I first started these two pages, I had made black & white copies of some of my prior journal page art.  I placed them randomly on the two pages....and I didn't like it.  So I brushed a coat of gesso over them and then sanded the pages.  At first, I was going to use gesso and make the images disappear....I'm so glad I turned a "mistake" into a great backdrop for what I think turned out to be interesting pages...the bird on the left was one of the images...and look what it did to the page.  Imagine if I had edited the bird out....  I'm enjoying this workshop...

Here's the left page....

 

 And this is the right page.....After I sanded the two pages, I put a color wash on the page....and then I added a little bit of another color wash.  I did some rubber stamping in brown and some in black.  Then I started to glue the collage elements.  After that I took the charcoal pencil around and blended the charcoal.  Inspired by the catalog....