Get Messy Art Journal Season of Fairytales. Week Three.

Week three of the season of fairytales and I am still enjoying filling my little handmade journal. What I have learnt is that I like to work bigger, this journal was dictated by the size of the book covers I chose, but every time I open it, I wish it was bigger. We live and lean don’t we?!

I did buy a big fat old book this weekend from the local YMCA book fair, which I want to make into a sketchbook full of watercolor paper, but that is another story which I will share when I make it.

At the same book fair I also bought a couple of fairytale books which I am using for collage material. I seem to have landed on The Frog Prince as my fairytale of choice so I am keeping all my book pages from that story.

I have been following the daily prompts on Creative Bug this month and today’s was to make a poem from found words. So I pulled a couple of pages from The Frog Prince and chose some words and phrases to cut out.

Then I arranged them into two strange little poems which I incorporated into the above page alongside faces painted onto old library cards.

Another new thing I learnt this week from the Transference class I am taking was how to make image transfers using gel medium. I had a couple of not amazing practice runs, but I am very happy with the landscape I transferred onto these pages for my journal.

I tore the magazine image in two and transferred half per page with the vellum page in-between on which I stuck a tree cut from a book page (yes, from The Frog Prince).

I don’t have any tale in mind for any of these pages, just the influence and inspiration in my mind as I make them. This last page used the cut out trees as a mask and a collage over a stenciling of crowns. All inspired by a Get Messy tutorial at the beginning of the season on making stencils and masks.