Art Journal Page 204

Hi everyone!

I'm so so excited!!!! All my hard work trying to get the whites to actually appear white over the top of sprays has worked!!! So happy!

So I sprayed the page with yummy sprays, applied 5 coats of generic hair spray (fixative), applied a couple of coats of gel medium then clear gesso, sanded and applied another coat of clear gesso. Yes, it is a lot of work but if it actually does the trick, I'll do it! I can have multiple pages on the go and have them at the ready for later :)

So when the first page worked I was so excited I didn't even create a layout as such on the page, just a few white gesso sponged circles and some text written with a POSCA paint pen - just to see if it worked.

So then I started on a fresh page, applying the same process, then created a layout!

You can watch the full process on my YouTube channel by CLICKING HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
Dylusions 'bubblegum pink' ink spray
Dylusions 'lemon zest' ink spray
Heidi Swapp 'peacock' Color Shine
Woolworths Home Brand Hair Spray
Chromacryl gel medium
White POSCA paint pen

Liquitex Gesso
Heidi Swapp 'patina' Color Shine
Dylusions 'fresh lime' ink spray
Heidi Swapp 'sweet mint' Color Shine
Dylusions 'polished jade' ink spray
Heidi Swapp 'butter' Color Shine
KaiserCraft 'quarters' stencil
Derwent Inktense 'antique white' pencil
Art Basicws | Finnabair heavy gesso
Faber-Castell Pitt Artist 'white' big brush
Liquitex Basics 'cadmium yellow medium hue' acrylic paint
Pebeo 'primary magenta' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'light blue violet' acrylic paint
Reeves 'violet' acrylic paint
Semco 'tutti fruitti' acrylic paint
Derivan Matisse 'Australian olive green' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'light green permanent' acrylic paint
Mont Marte 'scarlet' acrylic paint
Black uni POSCA 'free size' paint pen
Black Pitt Artist 'brush' pen
Portfolio 'red' water soluble oil pastel
Portfolio 'orange' water soluble oil pastel
White Gelly roll pen
White POSCA paint pen
Black POSCA paint pen
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
Stipple brush

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen

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