It's all about the birds..

So I've been playing in my soft cover journal and thought I had some pictures from the starting point... only it seems not!

Straight to the chase then..

this is the only one I have of the background... it was blue leftover paint and stencilled texture paste through the "art is" stencil and some scraps of tissue wrap...... (this was going to be another entry for the blue and ochre Paperartsy challenge)








then...



I added some torn scraps of book pages

 I dripped some white Amsterdam ink down the pages and then across the pages to create some random shapes...

I doodled round the white drip marks with a black micron pen

it struck me (because I never plan these things)
that some of the Elenazinski birds would fit perfectly..

 it would have been best if I had applied a light layer of gesso before stamping the birds but I didn't think of that until too late...

 but it helped for the leaves and petals!

I just stamped parts of the flowers that would fit in my holes


I used big Pitt pens and Stabilo felt pens to colour the images

 I did some white pen mark making and highlighting

and that was that!