I love the translucency of a thin coat of gesso – pop that over a pointillistic background and I can almost imagine it’s a frosted glass panel. Reversing the stencil direction and moving it into the spaces of the previous colour developed the pattern over a sprayed page. I sealed the Distress Sprays with the solvent based spray varnish – it doesn’t move the water-reactive inks and stabilises them enough to work over them with waterbased media.
For this layout:
- Frisk LayFlat Sketch Pad (small)
- Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Sprays
- DecoArt Americana Sealer/Finisher Spray: Matte
- Royal Talens Amsterdam Standard acrylic paints (24 pack)
- Dutch Doobadoo Stencil: Faded Dots
- Royal Talens Amsterdam Gesso: White
- Woodware Mask-It sheet