Saturday 6 February 2016

And what was yesterday

Over on Countryview crafts, the topic this month is Backgrounds!
Recently, being inspired by the fabulous work of Seth Apter, I have been playing with backgrounds onto Black Gesso.

After gessoing the journal page I mixed some coloured grungepaste by mixing Umber and Penny Dina Wakley acrylics with PA grungepaste. I applied the grungepaste through a stencil which looks like industrial sheeting.
When it was dry I scraped some more DW acrylics in Ruby, Tangerine and Night over the page using a texture comb.
I sanded a little to reveal the layers underneath, Stamped dots with Dylusions stamp and heat embossed some dots for added impact!
I rubbed some Treasure Pewter over some of the grungepaste and edged my work with paint dipped into a credit card.
I doodled a little with a white pen and stippled some white paint with a stencil brush.
Finally, I added a PA stamp, MN07 with black archival onto brown paper, aged it a bit; added an old film negative....used a bit of Tim Holtz die cutting and a die cut key, aged with treasure gold.





I am entering this into the Countryviewcrafts challenge.



9 comments:

  1. Love working on black, I was thinking of doing a journal page on black too. Love yours.

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  2. It looks like a piece of fabric that you've embellished - lovely xx

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  3. This is brilliant. It looks very tactile and love the doodling!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  4. Great background and the end result is wonderful!

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  5. This looks great Hazel. Love the composition and all the layers. The black gesso is the the bomb!

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  6. Absolutely amazing - the colours really glow against the black.
    Alison xx

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  7. I love this Hazel, really striking with the black gesso background. Thank you so much for joining in with our challenge at Country View Crafts, and have a great week. Sue xx

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