Alla prima

The method of oil painting in which the desired effects of the final painting are achieved in the first application of paint as opposed to the technique of covering the canvas in layers with the final painting being achieved at the end.

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Woo hoo! My Lindy Try Met Sets arrived, and the first night was spent adding water to the bottles ( because they come as powdered textile dyes ) and then spraying little shots on a piece of wax paper so that they would dry to play with the next day. So you can guess that my background is made from the wax paper transfer technique and random spreading on Faber Castell gesso.

Next I had to look up what "industrial chic" meant because I knew I didn't have the proper colors for Limor Webber's  January Challenge. ( evidently industrial chic is an undefined term, but exposed pipes, brick walls...kind of a cleaned up grunge encompasses it, at least that's my interpretation of it )

The colors I did use were:

Moon Shadow Mist - Gossamer Gold

Starbursts - Cocoa Bean ( dauber ), Mission Bells Brown, Mystic Malachite, Dark Chocolate Truffle,Cotton Candy Pink and Sunset Pink

So here is my art journal page ♥

Waterproof pens like the Sakura Pigma Sensei are perfect to add extra doodling without any smearing. I did a real loose and sketchy type of outlining and shading.

I am really enjoying hunting through magazines for images and words to glue in my journal, and I can really appreciate the pocket in the Dylusion's journal which is so handy to keep all the cut outs in. I do advise a smaller envelope to keep small words in so that they don't get lost.

Cricut - Country Life cartridge, p. 74

also entering my art journal page in:
Simon Says Monday Challenge - Anything Goes