October’s challenge over on Journal workshops is to create something with a technique or supply you have never used
before.
Ok, I can name a few
supplies I have never used because I simply don’t have them (yet), like pan
pastels, inktense pencils (all on my birthdaywishlist by the way, which is next
week, so fingers crossed J)
But I also never have
done a proper collage, meaning I often glue some pieces of scrap down as a
basis but I have never created an image out of several magazine cutouts before. So this was my challenge
for this month.
I did some research,
because I did not have a clue on how or where to begin. I’m really thankful that
there exists something like YouTube, I found the videos from Tracy 'Teesha' Moore very
helpful.
After watching them I
felt a bit more confident to get started.
So I grabbed a piece of
aquarelpaper and slapped some yellow and ochre watercolorpaint on it.
Added a collaged border
And made this image out
of: picture of a child’s windmill, a body, a scarf, a head and a perfume bottlecap
as hat.
Next came the altering
of the image with some doodles (also something I hardly ever do and do not feel
comfortable about, need to practice some more on this, I recently bought a book
on this topic so no excuse there)
I still wasn't completely satisfied with the result, it was missing legs, so I attempted to draw some myself, and then it hit me she needed an oversize handbag.
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I still wasn't completely satisfied with the result, it was missing legs, so I attempted to draw some myself, and then it hit me she needed an oversize handbag.
Next came the quote: It's better to have tried and failed than never tried at all.
I wanted to have a go at doing the lettering but chickened out and used a stencil in the end. Next time maybe.
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I will be linking this
to
JunkJournal FB as this
was made using magazine cutouts which otherwise would have landed in the
recycle bin. (so this is page #22)
