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Friday 24 February 2017

Art Journal page

Good evening! A very late post from me today. I came across a beautiful leather covered book the other day, whilst looking for something completely different. It was given to me by my lovely friend some years ago, I put it away and totally forgot I had it  (there's gratitude for you!). I thought it would make a perfect art journal, so I got out my inks, paints, stamps, pan pastels, stencils etc and made this! The image is one I won some time ago from the The East Wind, and as these images have lovely clean lines I thought I'd be brave and attempt to paint her with acrylics, totally outside my comfort zone!!!. As you can see I'm very much an amateur, but I did enjoy myself and can't wait to have time to do this again! Didn't enjoy clearing up the mess afterwards though...even messier than usual today!
Thanks for looking, have a lovely weekend.
Chris
x

Challenges:
theeastwind #70
pdelinkyparty no cards
alteredeclectics
art-journal-journey
try it on tuesday get messy

21 comments:

froebelsternchen said...

A beautiful page. Chris! Thank you for sharing with us over at Art-Journal-Journey and Try It On Tuesday!

aussie aNNie said...

Chris, I am so impressed. Love your journey and the start of a great one. It's fun to get messy, I am a 'clean' messy person, so don't really have a lot of mess. [comes from nursing].
Your colouring is fabulous and I hope you will make another one. TagTuesday is another great fun challenge to go into...it's all fun...hugs. xx{aNNie}

Jenny L said...

Hi Chris,
oh what a gorgeous page for your art jounal you have created.
Love the wonderful vibant colours, and your super design.
I think your colouring of that image is very super and wonderful.
Do you know you could enter this into the Frilly and Funkie challenge as well as it fits the bill.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.

Rike said...

The face looks very cute on this beautiful background!
Rike x

Janis Lewis said...

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing at PDE Linky Party.
~Owner/DT Janis

Pat said...

So beautiful Chris, the image is lovely and your painting looks great. Great background too. Have a good weekend.

Pat xx

Marjut said...

Lovely page. Thank you for joining us at TioT.

Linda Kunsman said...

great job-this is a gorgeous book cover Chris!

Irish Cherokee said...

Great job for not being in your comfort zone. I agree with you that using acrylics creates a mess. Not fond of the cleanup afterward either.. Smile.

Hugs and Blessings
Jim

cheryl said...

Oh this is one super page hun great design love hugs cheryl xxx

Kathleen said...

A fabulous page, totally gorgeous background and a lovely image.

Kath x

DonnaMundinger said...

Oh WOW! Am I ever impressed, Chris! Of course I love the fab artsy background, but to color the image with acrylics is sooo fabulous! She's absolutely gorgeous. What an amazing page. Thanks so much for joining our Love and Romance challenge at The East Wind. xxD

chrissy xx said...

That's what it's all about, enjoying ourselves ! Nice to do different crafts and you've certainly 'cracked' it with this..LOve your colours and design Chris. Hope to see more.
Chrissyxx
Did you have a good weekend? are now on the wine lol x

Sandra Wright. said...

A lovely journal page..loving the background you have created...
Thank you for joining in with this months challenge at Altered Eclectics..x

Julieanne..aka pinkjools said...

Beautiful journal papge Chris....love the colours and the image.....Joolsx

Meggymay said...

Its a lovely journal page. Thank you for sharing it with us over at TioT's as well
Yvonne

Inkypinkydelights said...

Loving your journal page Chris! Judy x

Maarit at Violets Corner said...

Gorgeous journal page Chris, the detailing is lovely.

Love and hugs
Maarit

Pamellia said...

Wow Chris, this is fantastic! You would never know this is outside your comfort zone because it is so amazing! I love the patterns in the background, the darker honeycomb and harlequin, and then the white flourish and even touches of black. Wonderful contrasts. Your image is fabulous and I love the quote too. Quite the amazing makeover that book cover had! Well done! hugs :)

Chrissy said...

So GORgeous Chris..well done, I love your painting on that lovely image and all the details and textures on the page..just gorgeous.

luv CHRISSYxx

Rocky said...

A great way to use such a lovely gift, I'm sure your friend would love what you've made, so pretty. Thank you for joining us at Altered Eclectics.