'Jigsaw Pieces' and Blue and Copper were the parameters for this week. Luckily inspiration struck and I remembered I had some large jigsaw pieces somewhere, the question was "where?" I did, luckily, find them and so set to drawing around them so they would not be so bulky in my journal.
The pieces were then coloured using various Oxides and a bit of stamping in black was done on each one to create a kind of background for the figures I planned to use. The small Dylusion figures were each stamped, coloured and cut out before I set to on the page background colour which I had decided was to be the prescribed blue.
I used Dyan's London Blue which is quite deep as I had some black marker showing through on one of the pages from a previous post and I used my favourite "Diamonds in the Rough" stencil with some Copper paint I had from my teaching days. Being honest I didn't like what I had done and so I hastily stencilled a border in a Turquoise paint - better but still not happy - so more diamonds went on the page again in the Turquoise. I was happier.
and close ups
Next, with bated breath, the figures were added to the jigsaw pieces as I did not know whether or not they would work as the pieces did not really fit together. Phew! It was ok and so the page was complete as soon as I had outlined the bits of jigsaw in black to separate them from the blue background..
I kept having the word "discombobulated" running around in my head and so that had to be part of it. Hope you like my page and think it is fun! Another one I thoroughly enjoyed making.
