Snowan art journal page

Grumbacher is having a little snowman art contest going on and I decided to enter my melted snowman. After all I live in an area where we usually get one decent snow a year and it melts as fast as it arrives...which is a good thing as most people around here don't know how to drive in it, myself included.

I used an assortment of inks to create the sky, hopefully capturing the radiation of the sun warmth on a winters day. The sun itself was done with a Faber Castell gelato.

The snowman was created with some molding paste applied with a spatula. 

And to give the grass in the foreground some texture I scraped into the wet paint with some short strokes hopefully emulating grass.

A fun page in my art journal book which I am hoping to have completed before 2016 rolls around so I can begin with a new one!
Are you thinking of starting a new journal for 2016?

Linking this up with Paint Party Friday!