Last month I discovered a
new blog, Marit’s Paper World. This
summer she shares 10 Quirky Dutch Summer posts to keep creativity flowing
during the summer months.
I used an old English book
about karate.
I removed more than half
of the pages. Of course I keep those removed pages for experiments. I’ll
decorate the outside of my book when it’s filled from cover to cover.
QDS #2 is called Masking
with Watercolor. Marcia Beckett was the guest blogger for this challenge, she
showed us one of her favourite watercolour techniques to get shapes with crisp
edges. This is my first try with contact paper on watercolour paper (bottom) and one
of the removed pages from my book with gesso (top).
I used blue and yellow
watercolour paint.
The result on the page
with gesso. I could remove the contact paper very easy, but the gesso was not such a
good idea. No crisp edge here.
The result on watercolour
paper.
It was badly damaged when
I removed the contact paper.
A second try in my
watercolour journal with a better quality paper.
The wet watercolour paint
looks very nice.
The result was much better, . . .
. . . but some of the paper was
damaged again.
Time for a third try. I used freezer paper on watercolour paper.
I used purple and green
watercolour paint.
I forgot to take a photo
of the result, before using it. This is the first spread in my book. I painted
the background with black acrylic paint. Then I cut the experiment and attached
it with double sided sticky tape. I added the date and doodled with a black
pen.
You can take a closer look at my spread
here.