illustration friday "frozen"

Illustration Friday entry for the prompt "frozen" - Yay!!!! I managed two weeks in a row!!


This is a mixed media collage in my little "52 prompts" inspiration journal. It is in under the prompt "weather and it is "snow".


The background started with smeared gesso and silver acrylic paint. Then strips of two shades of blue sellotape. You can't really see the effect of these first layers properly. The silver has scanned looking grey and the sellotape strips are actually a beautiful, glossy, transparent blue.


Then I collaged images of the girl and jewels from magazines. I folded the largest jewel image and snipped it like a snowflake. Then decorated with white Uniball Signo pen and black Pitt Artist pen.


I didn't use any blue paint, so the blue that you see is all done with the nifty sellotape that I bought.

This is a scan of the page before I added the collage elements and the decorations. It is the smeared gesso and silver acrylic paint with the two shades of blue sellotape over the top. The sellotape is ripped into strips.

The effect is much better if you are looking at the actual art in front of you. The sellotape is really shiny and it adds gloss to the coloured page and the blue colour intensifies wherever the blue is overlapped.