Letting Things Go

I recently had my first attempt at a collage layout in my art journal, though it's probably more of a 'clean and simple collage' than a true collage, lol. It incorporates an autumn theme and colours and while it didn't end up looking exactly how I'd imagined, I let that ideal go and have come to love it. 

I began with covering the double spread using paints in yellows and oranges then stamped and clear embossed large leaves. Once dry I sponged over the background with blue and did some stamping of text with brown ink. Unfortunately I forgot to use permanent ink and used dye ink instead, so when it came time to glue the fussy-cut images and give the whole thing a coating of collage medium, the dye ink smudged, turned the blue to a murky green/brown and ended up darker than I'd intended. Lesson learned, sigh! I shadowed the collaged images with marker, added a sentiment and splatter, and darkened around the edges to draw the eye in. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Sketchy Leaves (Tim Holtz), script (stash)
• collage images - Autumn Stories (Maremi's Small Art)
• other - distress paints, clear embossing powder, heat tool, collage medium, Big Brush Pens 

I'm entering this in the Four Seasons Challenge for this month, which is autumn/fall.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry