In Tamara LaPorte's latest Mixed Media Expo (Taster), I started creating the pages for a Concertina book (from a guest instructor's session). The first part involved making marks and shapes on a large piece of watercolor paper. I started with a large piece of paper that was already covered with gesso and a bit of green watered-down acrylic.
From there, we were to play adding whatever we wanted. So, I added fluid and airbrush acrylics, more watercolor, water-soluble crayon, India and Acrylic inks, Tempera paint sticks, Posca pens, and Sharpie markers. After drying, we were to slice the paper into three equal strips. What you see below is the product of my play and the strips cut.
I'm going to use two of the strips for the Concertina. The third just didn't work and has been cut into much smaller pieces to stash for other uses.
What I especially like in this one is the darker green ink applied in a design and then - using a paintbrush - pulling the ink to one side of the loops for contrast. Not knowing what would happen, I loved the result of doing this!
As the title of this post suggests, this effort is not done. I still have the Concertina covers to make as well as to decorate the back-side of the strips. So, onward!
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