Traci Bunkers
11.27.10 journal page on Gratitude
I did this journal page last night, on Gratitude. I felt I was needing to do a page on gratitude, and with Thanksgiving the day before, it seemed appropriate.
This has a lot of things going on. I used gesso, acrylic paint, 2 packing tape transfers, a stencil (in the background, by The Crafter's Workshop), hand-carved & handmade stamps, collaged ephemera, polaroid pogo print emulsion transfers, glaze pens, latte sweet pens, copic markers, sharpie poster paint pens, watercolor crayons, rubber stamps, and crayons. I did the writing with a Uni-ball Double Sided Pocket Brush Pen, which I love. The main photo is of the mannequin on my front porch. Unfortunately, I didn't seal the pages before I closed the book, and the crayons transferred in places onto the mannequin's face. When I use something that might smear or transfer onto another page, I like to seal the spread with Krylon workable fixative.
This was the first time I tried to do emulsion lifts/transfers from pogo prints. It was easy enough to get the yellow & magenta layer to lift off in one piece, but for the life of me, I couldn't get the final blue layer to lift. I even tried soaking it overnight. It seemed very thin and fragile, and would only come off in tiny pieces. There's a great video tutorial here.. After the emulsion transfer of the cross was dry, I colored it with copic markers.
You can see detail shots of the transfers right after I applied the here and here
11.27.10 journal page on Gratitude
I did this journal page last night, on Gratitude. I felt I was needing to do a page on gratitude, and with Thanksgiving the day before, it seemed appropriate.
This has a lot of things going on. I used gesso, acrylic paint, 2 packing tape transfers, a stencil (in the background, by The Crafter's Workshop), hand-carved & handmade stamps, collaged ephemera, polaroid pogo print emulsion transfers, glaze pens, latte sweet pens, copic markers, sharpie poster paint pens, watercolor crayons, rubber stamps, and crayons. I did the writing with a Uni-ball Double Sided Pocket Brush Pen, which I love. The main photo is of the mannequin on my front porch. Unfortunately, I didn't seal the pages before I closed the book, and the crayons transferred in places onto the mannequin's face. When I use something that might smear or transfer onto another page, I like to seal the spread with Krylon workable fixative.
This was the first time I tried to do emulsion lifts/transfers from pogo prints. It was easy enough to get the yellow & magenta layer to lift off in one piece, but for the life of me, I couldn't get the final blue layer to lift. I even tried soaking it overnight. It seemed very thin and fragile, and would only come off in tiny pieces. There's a great video tutorial here.. After the emulsion transfer of the cross was dry, I colored it with copic markers.
You can see detail shots of the transfers right after I applied the here and here