Pages in Stages-- #1

A snippet from the journal page.  "Love the questions as much as the answers"--  at our church we sometimes say this in the service.  God is very mysterious and we are always filled with so many questions and *that* is ok.

I often get questions about what supplies I use or how I achieved the layers on my journal pages, so I will walk you through a journal page in it's stages of layers. 

I am also linking this to Paint Party Friday because pieces of it are painted with inktense inks.

1.  I started by sketching cute and odd little people and figures, with pencil.  I was looking at another art journal page of mine that was filled with questions and I realized how it told so much about what was going on in my mind even though it was all questions and it really told a lot about my life at the moment.  I let this page sit like this for a couple weeks.

2.  Then I added pieces of colored tape on the edges.

3.  I used Derwent 12 Inktense Block Tin Set mixed with water and gesso to paint in the negative space with some pastel colors.
I'm still not sure I like the coloring on the top half of the page, but oh well.

 4.  Here I added some shading on the little guys using colored pencils. 

I outlined the guys with black marker.

5.  Next, I added some gesso mixed with water to soften things up a bit.

6.  I probably should have taken another picture in this in-between stage.  To finish things off, I used Pan Pastels in places to create bright sweeping colors in the negative spaces.  I added more decorative tape.  I added some rub-on letters and symbols.  The flowers were cut from a scrapbooking border and outlined with black marker.   I went around the guys again and re-outlined some of the lines.  I made the words darker and I added the checkered border and strips around the words.  

Well I hope you've enjoyed this Pages in Stages installment and leave me a comment if it was helpful to you.