Using Colours Outside Your Comfort Zone

Hi everyone! It's Catie on the blog today and my turn today to share a project with you. I've done an art journal page using colours that I'm not naturally drawn to. I tend to lean towards blues and greens, so this time I've mixed it up a bit by throwing in some pink (I REALLY don't like pink!), yellow and orange.  Here goes!

1. I didn't prime my pages this time... Just raw, blank pages 😊

2. Gelato goodness!

3. Colour blocks of gelato around the page - the beauty of gelatos is you can just go crazy with colour, and it all looks fab!!

4. Blend using a wet wipe.

1. Put some gold gelato around the edges of the pages.

2. Blend for a subtle border.

3. Define the areas of colour with black gelato.

4. Blend/smudge with wet wipe.

1. Water colour stick...

2. I coloured the edges of the blocks of colour on the pages, then...

3. Using a water colour brush...

4. ...blended the water colour into the gelato.

1. Mixing some colours to get a shade more suited to that of the gelato.

2. And blend.

3. The water colours subtly add a bit more colour at the outer edges of the blocks of colour.

4. Then, using stencils and white gel pen (which I later went over with Posca pen so it can be seen!!)

1. I just coupled circles around the pages...

2. Then added a little detail to them to make bubbles.

3. Then some stamping... 

4. ...and some doodling.

1,2,3: more stamping and doodling.

4. Adding some more definition to the bubbles with silver pen.

1&2. Sharpies for the title work.

3&4. Stencils and whipped spackle for some more dimension on the page. 

1. Stencil work and stamping.

2,3,&4. Water colour paint splatters.

And, voila!

Hope you've enjoyed the process for creating this page. 

Thanks for looking xo