DLP Week Three: COLOR!

January Theme: The Blank Page and How to Face It!

January 17 Art Challenge:  The Color Wheel

Journal Prompt:  "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way .”- Georgia O’Keefe

When I think of color I think flowers, whether in an arrangement or in the garden, flowers brighten my world.

I looked through these two coloring books for ideas.

I used torn bits of Tim Holtz idea-ology tissue wrap as a background.  To make it blend in with the planner pages I used small drops of the same color paints swirling them around with my finger then blotting with paper towel.  I remember learning from Rea Missingman to make the colors pop by stenciling or stamping white over them. 

As this dried I colored the flowers with PRISMACOLOR pens.

Tip: PRISMACOLOR pens come in two tip choices: broad and brush.  I prefer the brush tip as it is easier to color in detailed areas.  These pens do tend to bled on paper and cardstock.

brush tip – Scarlet Lake, broad tip – Crimson Red

I cut out the flowers, played with the arrangement then glued them down with matte medium.

I doodled over them with a white gel pen and colored the center of the flowers with a Sakura glaze pen

This is the entire week’s layout.