Seek and Find—Journaling with Julie 8

In this eighth lesson from this fun art journaling book that my sister and I are working on, you are supposed to create a page with collage, paint and water-soluble crayon and then find a picture within those shapes.

I'm sharing Julie's project first, because she actually followed the lesson. Julie had a piece of parchment paper she had brayered paint onto (not a verb really, but it is now) and glued it onto watercolor paper. Within the shapes and colors of her collaged paper, she found a bird and parent. Julie says it's a cross between an owl and penguin...which is a pretty good description imo. She used acrylic paint and sharpie for the outlines and added grayish paint around the birds. She also added the word family.

I love how he turned out—so cute! And definitely great colors from the papers. Now, here's my project.

This is actually my second attempt...with the first attempt, I collaged papers and then added acrylic paints, but I ended up basically using way too much paint and it ended up just a painted background with some square shapes under it from the paper. You couldn't see the papers and there was no variation to the paint. Fail!

Tried again and used a page that already had some textured stenciling, added some more paints and then just drew in a face like the sample page. I didn't find anything in my painted piece that suggested a face or shape. I think I just had too heavy a hand with the paint. I did have fun with some finger painting and color blocking but this is not my finest interpretation of a lesson.

That's if for this one...the next lesson is to make yourself an angel and since I already am one (just ask my sister...wait, don't ask her), it should be a piece of cake. Lolol

Happy Friday!

Chark