GPP Street Team: In a Scrape

I knew exactly which book I was going to use for this exercise; my play book. I call it my play book because it is the book because it is the book that I play in. It was an old textbook which I found downtown with a sign, “free” over it. I love the way the text usually peeks through my art work, often times even providing inspiration for the work I do. 

In the first page you can see where a sketch from the page before has bled through. The second image is of the three colors I choose to use; mama always said to design using 3’s and 5’s. The third image is of the background completed, I cheated a little and used my heat gun to speed up the drying process. 

I have this great stencil of a robot which I used with white gesso and black paint in mirror images. The white robot I decided needed wings. I created the feather edge effect by using my card at angle and pushing the corner into the paint. I also used a oil board number stencil along the bottom for a border; I was using a lot of paint which made the stencil bleed. I liked the overall messy affect which it gave the pages and the thickness I laid it on gave the page more dimension.

I let the pages dry over night and came back today with paint pens in hand. I outlined the robot images with more detail, as well as the number border along the bottom. Since I am a writer at heart, I also did a quick hand written journal entry on either side with contrasting color. I like the way my curly que hand writing is very different from the very linear robots and numbers. Overall, I am very excited about the way my pages turned out and will keep my scraping technique in my back pocket of tricks.

If you would like to particapate just head over to the Green Pepper Press blog and read Michelle’s instructions.

Continuing the adventure, 

Jessica