Merry Christmas.
Just a simple design, I first painted this design when I first started teaching, we painted these bells on a door hanger.
I received an art journal, Dylusions, for my birthday this year and have only just started to use it so I thought how apt a Christmas design for the first page.
I used Matisse flow paint, they are very good for these pages and do not bleed through. This design is painted in the style of folk art, layering the paint with brush strokes, I did not use a lot of water though, the Matisse paints are mostly pigment paints and can be used just with a wet brush, I did add some water to thin the paint a little bit when painting the fir tree branches.
As you can see from the photo below how the back of the page remains quite crisp.
I missed the first page in the art journal and used the second page in. The white writing I used a white Signo pen.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Joyful New Year for 2016.
Just a simple design, I first painted this design when I first started teaching, we painted these bells on a door hanger.
I received an art journal, Dylusions, for my birthday this year and have only just started to use it so I thought how apt a Christmas design for the first page.
I used Matisse flow paint, they are very good for these pages and do not bleed through. This design is painted in the style of folk art, layering the paint with brush strokes, I did not use a lot of water though, the Matisse paints are mostly pigment paints and can be used just with a wet brush, I did add some water to thin the paint a little bit when painting the fir tree branches.
As you can see from the photo below how the back of the page remains quite crisp.
I missed the first page in the art journal and used the second page in. The white writing I used a white Signo pen.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Joyful New Year for 2016.