Paperartsy - Topic 11 - Our House

The Paperartsy topic announced on Sunday, is "our house" - Darcy found some fantastic samples of houses incorporated into art... I was taken by Kate Crane's journal page, and Karla's page full of houses on Sunday, and also Lucy Edmondson's inspiration from Madness "Our House" (in the middle of our street)

 This is a page in my A4 Seawhite journal.  I used heavy gesso as a base on the page, then scribbled the Crayola Twistables - yellow, orange, pale blue and red, mixing and blending before the gesso was fully dry to ease the blending.  Forgot to take a photo of this stage...

I stamped and masked the houses (Paperbag Studio) multiple times over the page, nearly filling it.

I stamped the plain house on a book page painted with diluted Fresco paints, and glued them over the background.

To allow the houses to pop more from the journal page I smudged the black Twistable with a damp brush, to create a background

Borrowing from last fortnight's challenge, I took a black micron pen and scribbled round the outline of the houses, and underneath with a soft pencil, smudging the lines, and then scribbled again with the micron pen, and finally a white sharpie.

stamped the words from ELB13 (Paperartsy) on white and mounted on black card, before adding to the journal page.


Entering the Paperartsy challenge here