Journal Page with Portfolio oil pastels

Hi, thanks for all the good wishes with our new venture...quite excited!.....anyway I've been playing with my Portfolio Oil Pastels again and this is the journal page I've created with them.

It's a variation of the bleaching technique from Lin Brown. I started by laying down some random blocks of colour over the whole page and then blended them with my finger. I used JOFY stencil PS009 and a just damp babywipe to wipe away and bleach out the colour.

I then used the Lin Brown stencil PS001 stencil for the dots and the stalks from the Lin Brown PS004 stencil.

I've used one of the white pages from the Finnabair Vintage Vanity Journal as a base. At this stage I added some white sketched lines and black dots and lines with Posca pens. I also applied some shading around the petals and stalks with a pencil.

I just felt there wasn't enough contrast, so I used Distress markers in a variety of colours to add more depth and used a damp paintbrush to blend them.

I also used some treasure gold to highlight the centres of the flowers.

I'm quite taken with these pastels which aren't very expensive to have a play with...sorry ..explore your creativity with!

Not entering in any challenges, just thought I'd share. Thanks as always for stopping by.

Mr. Brightside...

The Sunday Stamper challenge this week is to use bright colours. So much for saying I was in a vintage colour palette mood at present....Hels has tempted me out!

So I am sharing a couple more journal pages that I've just completed from backgrounds I started at a Lin Brown workshop. We were having fun using gelatos, though you could use portfolio oil pastels. Having covered the whole page and blended them, take a stencil and using a damp (not wet) baby wipe gently wipe to reveal the surface beneath.

At the time I was just experimenting and trying different colours and wasn't thinking about how this would make a 2 page spread! Anyway that was the challenge, I had used a little orange and yellow on the green page but that was all...so how to tie them together? I loved the white reveal but decided if it was a background I needed to soften it. I got my colouring pencils out and spent some time just shading the leaves around the edges and using colours from one page on the other. I'd started colouring in on the photo above but here is a close up. 

What to use as a focal point without detracting from the background to much? I've used crunchy wax paper and stamped flowers and leaves from Lin Brown stamp sets. Firstly stamping in snowflake fresco and then over stamping in various colours of fresco paint. I scrumpled the wax paper up and then pulled them out again, applying treasure gold to the ridges.

The saying is stamped in black, clear embossed and watercoloured with distress markers.

To finish white highlights and black lines to frame the pages. It's growing on me...it's definitely bright and has stamping on it so it qualifies anyway! Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting.