je suis charlie

I started by gluing down several front-pages of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. 

Next I made a stencil filled with mouths, because they wanted to silence the journalists. But in my humble opinion I believe they've reached the opposite, suddenly everybody knows the magazine and their subscriptions has risen enormously.

My intention was to create a resist with Vaseline through the stencil, so I applied it generously and  went over it with red and black acrylic paint, left it to dry and wiped away with a bay wipe, but I kinda rubbed away all the paint. Maybe I applied the Vaseline too generously?? So I was left with this big mess,  

but actually this wasn’t bad at all, because in Paris it also was a huge mess.
I wanted to apply a wash of gesso, but this turned into mud, so I wiped it away immediately. Instead I glued down some tissue paper and stenciled the mouths with red acrylic paint on top. Now I was liking it, the messy background still peeking through, and the crisp mouths. 

Next I painted the Eiffeltower and used that as the letter A in Paris.

Cut out a chain of people holding hands out of gelli prints to represent the protests and the solidarity between people.

I wasn't sure whether I would find enough inspiration to make my ARTicles book, but hey I'm only 1 week far and finished already 4 pages, wow, if you too want to join in please do so. Here is the link:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1397037840591732/