Art Journal - My favorite books - 3 - Harry Potter

The 3rd page of the series. This time it's about the Harry Potter books. I loved the series and had to do a page about it. The phoenix was the first thing that came to me when I thought about it. So here it is.

The video:


The picture:

Not long ago I bought the big case of the Faber-Castell Polycromos. I wanted to use them and test them out on a black background. So I used them on this page. Sadly they didn't shine as much as I had hoped for this page and needed something to paint over it. Gouache was my way of doing it, because I didn't want the shine acrylics would have had.
At first I wanted to paint the feathers in but I had some orange and red pattern paper on my desk. So why try to paint feathers, which I have never done before, when I could just cut them out and glue them on. They added abit of dimention and I know, had I painted them, they would never have given me the same result.

Hope you like the page. Let me know...

Art Journal - My favorite books - 2 - Fairytales

Here is the second page in the 'My Favorite Books' - Series. It's about fairytales.

Here is the video:


And a photo of the finished page;

On this page I used an image transfer. It wasn't the normal put gel medium down onto the page and peal away the paper. Instead I coated the images with Gel medium at least 8 times in horizontal and vertical layers and let it dry completely overnight. When the paperbacking is peeled off, the image is transferred to the gel medium and the image is translucent.

It was perfect for what I had in mind. As I wanted the background to lightly peek through the fairies.

Art Journal - My favorite books - 1 - Pride and Prejudice

I'm started a new Art Journal about my favorite books and books that inspire me to do an Art Journal page. The first page is about Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Here is the video of the page:



Here you can see the page itself:

It is the first face I ever painted. I have drawn some faces in the past, but never colored them. It was harder than I thought it would be. Especially the details of the face didn't come out as I hoped they would.
It was done with watercolor paints, acrylic paints, oil pastels and a black marker.