Monday, March 30, 2009

GPP Crusade #29 - Brush Effects

Michelle's Crusade #29 was all about the use of "painterly effects" to make lovely backgrounds for your journal pages - or use them around your altered photos - or use them on top of your journaling - or as well, anything you want really. I had a lot of fun with this, and definitely want to use these techniques again. I used my trusty Golden brand Quin Magenta, my cheapie JoAnn's teal and leaf green, made stencils, a bit of my hand carved stamps. Now I just need to art journal on top of it! Do I dare? Not sure....hmmm....

9 comments:

michelle ward said...

Jane! This is gorgeous! I loved seeing it up close too. SOme great effects! Thanks for sharing your work with the team.

Patti Edmon Artist said...

I saw this crusade and want to try it too - love what you did! I know what you mean about journaling all over your beautiful backgrounds!! I took a visual journaling workshop and put time into creating the pages, then wrote on them and it felt really strange, but I think I've gotten it:)

Kim Mailhot said...

Beautiful brush effects here, Jane ! It is hard to cover up some of our treasured backgrounds isn't it ? You could always make a copy of it first !
Nice job, Crusader !
Cheers !
Kim

Kathy McCreedy said...

Hi Jane,
Your pages are terrific! LOVE the Golden acrylics, too, esp. the magenta! I'm really curious what surface you used to work on. Brava!

Regina said...

Very yummy!

Anne said...

This is beautiful! Love it! :-)

Cindy said...

beautiful work and, as always, even more complex in person. I look forward to seeing the text and images you choose to add to it!

Anonymous said...

love those painterly effects!

Diana Trout {Nan.DT@verizon.net} said...

Beautiful background! Yes!! Go journal on top of it.