Art Journal Page #3

This is my third page and so far it is my favorite!  I wanted to do a page and use my stencils and also not have any quotes since my other pages have quotes on them, I also wanted to use my washable crayons and really put them to the test :).   

First I sprayed the page with a little bit of water and used four different colored crayons for each page and did a kind of fade with the colors. Then I sprayed it with more water and lightly used a brush to blend the colors.  The crayons had a cool effect and once they dried weren't smudged by Mod Podge which is something that I had trouble with watercolors doing. But since they are washable if you smudge them too much they will pretty much smudge away to nothingness so when you add the water smudge just a little tiny bit then move on.  If you aren't happy with it though you can completely remove the color from the page and try again.     

Then I used some Gesso, my circle stencil, and a sponge brush to randomly add the dots.  I wasn't really too careful about making the neat and I just did them in random spots on the page.   

 For the circle parts of the tree I used my Mod Podge lid and the lid of a mason jar to draw out the circle shapes on some book paper from another book.  Then I cut them out and used two colors of oil pastels for each circle, I colored the lighter color further into the circle then the darker color on the edge and used my finger to smear the color towards the center.  Then I put them onto the page using Mod Podge.

I used black acrylic paint to draw the trunk part of the tree, and even unartistic little ol' me was able to do these and make them look half decent.  So if you want to try painting the page is a good thing to try if you aren't very artistic because it is very simple things but you are still using a paint brush and paint.

I used white acrylic paint on a big, stiff, round brush and kind of dabbed it on for the clouds 

For the grass I used two different brushes and two colors of green and a white ( mixed with one of the greens) and just filled it in with simple downward strokes until I felt like I had enough.  

So there is this page!  It was fun and simple, I wish it had a little more texture but oh well at least it has quite a few layers of things going on.