Second Art Journal Page - France

I am very pleased how this turned out :)

I started the page by cutting up a whole 12" sheet of paper and then sticking it to my page randomly.

The paper I used was Madame Payraud from Papermaina

 I used a sheet made up of advertisements and had the image of the Eiffel Tower.

 I put them the right way up but thought they looked better

moved around as opposed to laid down as a whole sheet.

I then applied torn pieces of the Madame Payraud Tissue over several sections to soften the imagery.

I got the idea for the frame from this Art Journal Page by Shari Caroll

The main image was printed onto a piece of canvas. I bought it some time ago from a website.

I covered the frame with the tissue paper as well and coloured it with ink - Frayed Burlap.

I added gesso circles for some interest and glued the word PARIS cut from the paper.

I then took an Inkylicious stamp to add random swirl imagery around the page.

Once dry, I covered the whole page with regular golden gel medium to seal.

The word FRANCE is die cut using Tim Holtz Chipblock Alphabet from

a piece of card covered with metal tape, coloured with Oregano & Espresso Alcohol inks.

To add a little more interest I added a die cut door hinge inked and embossed.

Shading was applied with a Pitt Pen - Big Brush in Raw Umber

and some colour to warm up the greys & browns with Purple Violet.

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