Saturday, March 8, 2008

blue! blue blue blue.

i started by just painting blue watercolor over a spread maralena did in some acrylic berry and greenish colors. but then, then it went nuts. ahhh! tape everywhere! gesso! more tape! envelope! gesso! painting, sanding! writing with gel pen!






have i mentioned recently how much i am loving blue these last 2 weeks? i don't know where the blue fetish is coming from. i'm a red girl! but blue... blue sometimes horns in.

the 'evidence' tag is something i picked up in a scrap book store because i thought it was funny. that was a while ago. i think 7 gypsies is the name of the company who made it.

the envelope glued in is one i altered with inks... well i was going to alter it with ink, but my ink bottle sort of exploded the day i did it, so it was just splotchy. i never quite finished it.

the best part about this spread is that these are colors i never would have thought to use together. but it just sort of happened. thanks, maralena! =)

2 comments:

mcdc3s said...

hehe.... I love what you did! I knew you would go nuts with the backgrounds. I can't wait to do more. I love all the added extra goodies.

nicci said...

blue blue blue!!

haha. =>

i have been lately adding a lot of layers of ripped paper and gesso to the backs of the background pages you did to really bulk them up. some of them are scary thick. it's like having primed canvas or something.

i photograph the spiral bind every time i finish doing a major spread, because i love how the colors change.