A peek in Penelope's Journal for October + BONUS backgrounds!

Testing out the new favrourite toy: Koh-i-Nor Magic Pencils

Basket-weave squares + gesso + colour added using water-soluble crayons and a
few quotes from page 7 of the handouts. Notice the quote on leaves grows UP from the bottom.
This page isn't finished. I will likely add some writing at some point.

Scraped paint + gesso wash + stenciling with gesso + text.

 

Stencilled clouds (orange acrylic paint) + stenciling using two of my favourite stencils
+ a quote from the handouts

I redrew the bird from the "33 moments" article to fill the whole page
and then put some new text in the balloon.
The bird was drawn with a China Marker then painted with water-soluble crayons using my fingers.
Since China Markers are NOT water-soluble, there's no smudging when I added the colour.

And here are some of the backgrounds I've been making

that you can print out for yourself and use in your journals:

Scraped with Lemon Yellow, stencilled alphabet with teal, then scraped over very thinly with the same teal.

Photocopy of basket-weave squares, colour added with water-soluble crayons.
Stencil in the top right corner was wiped away with wet paper towel.
Stencil in the lower left corner was added with water-soluble crayons.

Photocopy of basket-weave diagonals, scraped with Cadmium Yellow acrylic paint
Stencil added with Light Green acrylic paint

Lightly scraped with Lemon Yellow acrylic paint, then stencilled
with magenta and teal using one of my favrourite stencil combinations at the moment.
Notice how I only use a part of the stencil, and move it around to vary the angles.

Cerulean Blue and Purple acrylic paint scraped + gesso wash (unevenly applied for effect)
+ stencilling with gesso (more opaque than white acrylic paint, also more interesting texture).