Bringing the Otter to Life
There’s something magical about transforming a simple sheet of paper into a textured, layered piece of art. For this project, I used Josephiena’s Collage Paper “Wild Life 3” (CP-088) — featuring our very own hand-painted otter. The artwork is printed on beautifully thin printer paper, which makes it easy to cut, glue, and blend seamlessly into any background.
A good example of a tough art journal page, in which I use rice paper, acrylic paint, and stencils, among other things.
In the video I explain how I created this tag
Made the base with some paint and the number stencil of Josephiena`s Design. The stars and the train are stamps of Crealies. The stars are stamped with Archival ink. The train is stamped on watercolor paper and colored with ecoline brush pens.
First I pasted old book pages into pieces all over the page. Then I spread a thin layer of gesso over it. I applied a little color with stencils. The color Light Pinkish Orange by Cadence turned out to fit very nicely with the picture of the blossom.
As a base, I used Watercolor paper 200g from Crealies. First I made a yellowish egg with the egg figure stencil of Josephiena's Design and Distress ink Mustard Seed. I left the egg stencil on my paper and put the gear stencil over it. With Distress ink Frayed Burlap and Spiced Marmalade, I applied the gears for a cool steampunk look. Then I applied Stains, Stains with coffee tea Day and stencil.