Art Journal Adventures | Week 2 | Exploring Texture

Here is a detailed rundown of my YouTube video for Art Journal Adventures: Exploring Texture. Here's a link to Joggles.com's blog where you too can follow along and get creative with me. Joggles.com Blog.

• Gessoing page 

• Make sure your gesso is well mixed 
• Spread a thin coat of gesso over the entire page 
• Princeton Catalyst Wedge No. 6 (W-06)

• Silicon kitchen bench scraper - iSi Silicone Pastry / Bench Scraper

• Dry gesso 

• To dry the gesso quickly to get started on the project
• Ranger’s Heat Tool

• Add washi tape 

• I’m not sure how I’ll bind the final art journal, so I’m giving myself a margin, so when I do bind the journal, I won’t mess up any artwork. 
• Jane Davenport ‘Palette’ washi tape set – thickest one in the bunch

• Burnish Washi Tape with a Teflon Bone Folder

• A Teflon bone folder, this one in particular, slides over surfaces when burnishing and folding paper very well 

• Mask off the washi tape 

• Use whatever combination of low-tack tape you have 
• Drafting Crepe Paper Masking Tape

• Post-It Labeling Tape

• Stamping the face 

• Jane Davenport’s 13 piece Face stamp

• Stamp the face outline separately from the eyes and nose 
• Grab an acrylic block, any large (or small) enough to fit the stamp 
• Lawn Fawn 4”x5” block w/ grid – for the face outline stamp & the eyes 

• Use the grid lines to line up the eye stamp with the eyebrows 
• Lawn Fawn 1.75 Inch Acrylic ROUND Grip Block – for the nose 

• Use Sizzix’s Stamper’s Secret Weapon to get a nice, smooth image when you stamp 

• Heat set the ink 
• Tsukineko StāzOn Ink in Jet Black 

• Clean stamps with a towel or baby wipe 

• Adding Texture Paste 

• Use a palate knife to get texture paste out of jar and spread/smear onto page in a windblown-esque hair shape 
• Liquitex Modeling Paste

• Use a comb or texture tool to create the illusion of hair 
• Catalyst Tool Contour Series 20 (C-24)

• Use a heat tool to set the modeling paste surface (becasue art waits for no one, least of all the artist) 

• Mask the face 

• Using some Post-It Tape create a mask so the spray ink won’t get on the face 
• As you can see it didn’t work, but this shouldn’t stop you from trying 

• Spray Inks 
• Find a group of colors you like. I chose: 
• Ranger’s Dylusions By Dyan Reaveley Ink Spray
• Polished Jade  
• Vibrant Turquoise  
• After Midnight  
• Pomegranate Seed  
• Studio Calico – Muster Huey’s 
• Piglet

• Heat set the spray ink 

• Wispy Hair & Tar gel 

• I wanted to create wispy tendrils of iridescent hair so I used a mixture of: 
• Golden Clear Tar Gel

• Artist’s Loft – Iridescent Medium

• Golden Polymer Medium Gloss

• Mix the Tar Gel, Iridescent Medium & Polymer Medium together till you have a nice drizzly consistency 
• Use the Polymer Medium to thin the consistency and not water because water can mess-up the integrity/adhesion of the mixture. 
• Drizzle to your heart’s content. 

• Spray with water 

• After the iridescent hair has dried spray, drip and dab water on the piece to get the desired spotted, speckled and watery look. 
• Tools used: 
• Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush

• Fine Mist Spray Bottle

• White & Gold Paint 

• I already had some white and gold paint in Fineline bottles laying around from a project months earlier. I decided to add these as hair tendrils as well. 
• The Fineline bottles come in 2 gauges of tips: 18 gauge & 20 gauge

 

• The white paint, because the spray inks I chose are water reactive even after they're dry, became tinted with the color ink it was over.

• Bandanna 

• I wasn’t really happy with the way the top of the head turned out. A bandanna of sorts seemed to solve the problem. 
• 1st I created a template out of some leftover Post-It Tape. 
• Cut out the final bandanna from an awesome cosmic/galaxy printed Mylar gift bag from Daiso. 
• Use a fine tip scissor for precise cutting 
• Martha Stewart Tools Scissor Spring Loaded 

• Glue down the slippery Mylar with a sticky glue 
• Aleene's® 4 fl oz Turbo Tacky Glue

• Finishing the face 

• As alluded to earlier, the face mask didn’t work; blue ink seeped under the mask leaving the face blue in most areas. 
• To even out the blue hue and make the face more face like, I colored the face with: 
• Jane Davenport’s Paint Over Pens in Beach

• Adding more texture 
• Seal the sprayed ink with a matte medium before adding sparkly gel 
• Golden Matte Medium

• I thought the piece could use a little more sparkle so I added some: 
• Viva Crystal Gel – Hologram 

• Apply with a palate knife and texturize with a comb or contour tool 

• Viola and now she’s complete 

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon.