I finally got around to uploading a page in my big square journal which is my entry for the talented Tracy's challenge over on Art Journal Journey - My Favourite Colour is October. This journal is one I made myself and there are several pages that are watercolour paper - this one is a rough textured cold press one. It is part of a pad I inherited from a painter friend of mine and I love it for the texture you get when you paint on it - shame I am no watercolourist as it does not get used as intended.
Quite a while ago I went to a workshop with Seth Apter, such a lovely guy and so full of ideas. This time one of the things we had to do was to take photographs of places we had visited that were of interest. We then had to select a section and scratch the surface off it in that place. I had this photograph of a door which I saw years ago somewhere in Cyprus. I love old doors and this one, along with the broken plaster wall, really spoke to me. So, remembering what Seth had taught us I began scratching the windows out and I was delighted to find they came out in shades of yellow and orange - perfect for autumnal crafting.
As a tribute to Seth I decided to use some of his diecut circles and so cut them out in Kraft card but then coloured some to be in keeping with autumn's colours. I coloured another piece of the watercolour paper in orange and added a little stamping on top. This worked well with a couple of scraps of orange paper I found. As I do like orange with its complementary colour, blue, and the fact that the door is blue, I painted the background Prussian Blue and added some bits of orange and brown to it but then rubbed them off - and I liked the result.
Three blue stars and a couple of thin strips of waste paper and I was ready to begin layering my piece together, but it needed another contrast and therefore I introduced a little bit of green to the whole thing. As it had been in a ring bound book it had the perforations along the top of the biggest/main piece so I decided to keep them and I layered a strip of rust coloured paper beneath.
