Using tea bags for journaling and collage

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Layered Journaling Janeville

This is a great tutorial from Janeville.  http://janeville.blogspot.com/2010/10/tiny-tutorial-layered-journal-page.html

Tiny Tutorial: Layered Journal Page



When I taught in Orvieto, Italy, this past June, I prepared 5x7" pages for each of my students, using a map of Orvieto as the background, so they could draw and watercolor over the map image. Here's how I did it:


Materials needed:

• liquid acrylic medium
• Image: photocopy or page from book or magazine
• watercolor paper (I used 5x7")
• watercolor paints, permanent ink pen
• Golden Absorbent ground

1.Start with liquid acrylic medium and a credit card or palette knife.

2. Spread liquid acrylic medium on the BACK your your image. 

3. Thoroughly cover the back of the image with liquid acrylic medium.

4. Place image, glue side down, on watercolor paper

5. Smooth image completely flat, using a credit card or palette knife.

6. No need to let it dry, go on to the next step.

7. Spread absorbent ground over the image, using a brush. Paint thin layers until you are happy with the coverage. You want to be able to see some of the image, but it will be the background for your watercolor painting.

8. Let dry completely. It dries a milky white.

9. Now it's ready to draw on in pencil, pen, or watercolor! Absorbent ground also takes image transfer very well.

I used a page from a bird book for this background, then drew, inked and watercolored the birds.

A page from my ORVIETO trip, with the map of Orvieto in the background.

Drawn and painted.

The page started like this

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