Art Journal
Layers and Texture
Gesso - a noun, a verb, a life-saver!
I'm starting this post with the "finished" 2-page spread. Finished is in quotes because are you ever really "finished"? I go back to my pages and often tweak after I've already posted.
This spread started out looking like this....
I just didn't like it at all, on many levels. ....this is where you have that conversation with yourself...if it's going to annoy me every time i open the journal....something has to change. So I covered it in gesso.....
That muted everything. Got to love gesso. Here are a couple of close-ups of the pages...
In the end, I love the colors and the shapes and the texture...I like the feel of the paper when I touch it. I like the flecks of gold. Done. Happy Sunday.
1 comment:
Beautiful!
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