Art Journal Journey - Acrylic Butterflies

 This page was painted in various shades of green acrylic paint and then a cobblestone stencil was used randomly in places on top which was dabbed with either grey or white paint.  Next I drew three butterflies, keeping to the same colour palette of green and grey, on spare cartridge paper and cut out and stuck them down.  You will notice they do not have antennae!  Oops?  No, It just didn't work when I drew some on so I decided, early enough, to omit them.  I love using bottle tops, when painting in my journal, to make circles and so I used a pill bottle top and dabbed it in some white paint and put in two groups of three and one single one.

A fine paintbrush went over the lines with some black paint and white was introduced in the circles left by the trail and then I flicked some white paint across with a quick kind of throw of the brush to give some white dotted lines running across the page.  Some cobbles were outlined in white and others with a 4B pencil as were the butterflies.  Finally I used a stamp with some gold paint to add sparkle and interest.

I hope you like my latest page for my theme "It Must Have Wings" at Art Journal Journey and would love you to join in with some of your work.