A Loose Journal Page

This is a loose art journal page, because I wanted to do something a little larger than my journal allows.  I’ve been doing quite a few small pieces lately and I wanted to stretch.  I reached for a 9 x12 piece of mixed media paper.

I didn’t know what I was going to do, except that I wanted to do a face, and also to use some of my under papers.

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I worked with gesso, gel medium, Faber Castell Gel Sticks, white acrylic and black ink, along with the collaged papers, which honestly, you really can’t see too well now.
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The little bird was an afterthought and was cut from the under papers, along with the houses and the stripes on her dress.
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I painted over the background more than once and added little doodles, because it needed something, but I wasn’t sure what.
A Little Bird Told Me by Tori Beveridge
A Little Bird Told Me by Tori Beveridge

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