Art challenge

On 12 Months in View today's Art Challenge is to use one of the techniques used over the last 6 months.  I thought I would have a go with the alcohol dripping technique again.

Of course it might have helped if I'd gone back to watch the video.  But no I just started.  I put gesso on the page and then a layer of acrylic paint.

I dropped the Surgical Spirit on it and it didn't have much effect.  I tried putting another colour on top and tried again and that didn't work.  I realised that the paint was too thick so I used the bleachout technique - using a wet wipe through a stencil which is what produced the mosaic look.

By this time it looked muddy so I sprayed some White Linen Ink on it.  That didn't make it look any better.

As I was working in my journal rather than on paper I had to stick with it.  Although I suppose I could have put gesso over the whole thing and started again.  Instead of using the Amsterdam paints I moved on to using the Ranger Dabbers and diluting the paint rather more. This was more successful.

I'm not sure what colour I put on after the pink but this was the final colour.  I drew the swirls and leaves with a Stabilo pencil.  I put some modelling paste through the mosaic stencil and stamped randomly with Archival Ink.

I went over the pencil with a water brush.  I stuck some map flowers onto the 'stem'.

I added some writing.

It still didn't look finished so I added the quote from the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice