A new challenge over on Art Journal Journey by the lovely Jo which is "Texture". Now that is sweet music to me as I love texture and I had the perfect page to start off with. Remember last week when I had a page that just would not behave? It refused to take paint or even Gesso - well I stuck some Art Deco Paper Perfect on it in an attempt to provide some coverage. I was not sure whether it would stay on the page or come off - luckily it stayed on and allowed me to slap some paint on today.
I think it is really a product that you put on a sheet of polythene and it peels off when dry to make you a sheet of paper to use in your artwork, but it does mention using it on hard surfaces as well, not sure what for apart from to give texture maybe.
Anyway, my page - if you look at my blogpost yesterday you will see the ArtDeco stuff on my page and it is a creamy yellow colour. I did not put it completely over every inch of the page but it got good coverage. Imagine my delight when I saw that Jo was asking for texture - my page was oozing with texture and I decided not to put any stencil work on as well as there seemed to be enough. I had decided on an outdoor scene so it was an obvious choice to paint the top of the page blue and the base green. It wasn't easy to get complete coverage and so there are bits of yellow showing through but i decided that this just added to the texture for the challenge on AJJ. My Story this week?
"Four friends, rather militant types, definite feminists, had all decided to go to a rally for "Women's Rights". There was a huge banner there but the girls had taken their own sign which said "The More I See of Men, The More I Like Animals", funnily enough that is the quote from Dyan that we have chosen to use this week. Simone, the French girl had decided to take a kite along with her and had tied a notice of her own to the string of the kite (another texture) which read "Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars". She knew she had the saying the wrong way around but wanted to emphasise "Women" in her own little protest. Rather a novel way of getting people to see one aspect of the protest and she had climbed the hill to be able to fly her kite as high as possible."
I hope there is enough texture for Jo on here, I can assure her that the figures are all coloured and fussy cut, to give texture in a way, the main sign is mounted on a double sticky tab so it really does stand out, and the page is very textural with the paste.
Now how can I introduce texture next week?
