Donna Downey inspired art journal spread.

This spread in my Dylusions Art Journal was inspired by Donna Downey. She worked with a lot of texture too and used that dark area as a backdrop for an image. To me it depicts a doorway. I set out making this page by using a stone stencil and texture paste after which I filled in the remaining area's with an Antique effect texture paste.

The doorway was made with a darkbrown acrylic paint with some black added in orde to make it even darker. I didn't mix in the black all the way, in order to get some variation in colour to add some interest instead of making a dark 'hole' in the wall.

I diluted some of the leftover acrylic paint from the doorway and let it drip from the side of the right page, hoping to create the illusion of branches accross the page. I needed that to 'hang' my birdcage stamp on. To bring back a little of the pink colour of the flowers on that lady I stamped a little heart and coloured that pink with a Copic marker before gluing it down.

In the middle of the spread accross the two pages, I tried to make the illusion of a tree by scraping my palet knife through the texture paste. When spraying the Glimmer mist, the ink gathered in the 'branches' of the tree, thus enhancing the tree.

Apart from various beige and brown sprays, I used two green sprays to give the illusion of the wall being overgrown with moss, but it also gave me the opportunity to let the green from the lady's dress come back on the pages. In orde to make the brick wall look dirty and old, I used some of the brown doorway paint and a nearly dry brush.

This last picture shows off the glimmer very nicely, which is fortunate, because most of the time it is nearly impossible to catch that in a picture.

Now let's see if we can get this puppy joined in some challenges. Have a great weekend everyone, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/02/sdc-february-2014-challenge-links.html
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.baffies-kreativladen.blogspot.nl/2014/02/challenge-28-februar-dt-call.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.nl/2014/02/with-heart.html
http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.nl/2014/02/sos-138-oh-shiny.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/02/ttcrd-challenge-feb-11th-feb-17th.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/february-challenge.html