Art Journaling with Burlap and Corrugated Paper

This episode of Drama-free Friday centered around one of the burlap pages in the Dina Wakley Media Art Journal. Honestly, I find this surface to be a good challenge because I’m never quite sure where it will go when I begin the page.

I’ve saved quite a few coffee cup sleeves from Star Bucks because I really enjoy using the mermaid face in my other journals. I always split the sleeve which means that I now have a collection of craft colored corrugated paper. I thought it might pair really well with burlap, so that's where I began.

The background is lightly tinted with a mix of Ceramcoat Sea Foam, Americana Sweet Mint, and White Wash acrylic paints that I applied with a brayer. Using several of my flower drawings as patterns, I cut individual petals, leaves, and stems from the corrugated paper. The vase is printed burlap from my stash of supplies. All are attached to the background with glue. Oh, and I inked around the edges of everything, too.

The flower centers are dots of acrylic paint. Since I can’t seem to leave any empty space, I added the random spots (paper napkin) to create the illusion of wallpaper behind the flowers. A bit of Pan Pastel applied with a Sofft Tool added a little more interest here and there. Good enough!

The quote from a desk calendar on the facing page really has nothing whatsoever to do with a vase of flowers, but we all need the reminder to keep our spirits up, don't we? 🙂 The background behind the quote is created with a small brayer and the same 3 colors of acrylic paint. Several colors of Sakura Gelly Roll pens were the perfect colors to complement the burlap page.

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