Harvest

What are you harvesting this season?

Autumn is the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'. A lot of harvesting is going on. What are you harvesting from the latest season in your life? Even if it feels as if you have spent a season in the wilderness, dry and thirsty, there will be something you have learned. Harvest knowledge and wisdom from life's events.

As I am working in both black and white journals at the moment, I thought it would be fun to do some process shots for both. I did the white one in the last post, so here is the journal with black pages this time. If you just want to see some close-ups, head down to the bottom of the post.

Collage pieces.

Gesso over the pieces. As with the white journal, I leave some patches bare of gesso. With the white pages it allows the paint to react differently on the coated and uncoated parts. With the black pages it allows dark patches to add depth.

A bit of colour. I dragged a plastic card through the teal paint to add some texture.

Some squiggles and dashes were added in gold pen.

A bit of stencilling and some more marks, this time with a black Copic pen.

 I added a few more bits of collage. I don't often do that after the first couple of layers, but I had added some marks that I wasn't happy with, so I covered them up. I forgot to take a photo in between, so you can see that there are quite a few more marks added since the last photo - some lines in Neocolor II, some white stripes and dots, and a bunch of black squares that I regretted as soon as they were done!

A good dose of grey paint pushed the new collage papers back a bit and tamed the black I didn't like. 

Neocolor II scribbles and some drippy paint helped to embed the collage further. 

White paint applied with my fingers, more stencilling, and some painted lines. The shapes in the centre then became the reason for the journalling - they look like wheat stalks to me. 

A few more details were added as seen in the photo at the top of this post. And here are some close-ups of some of the details.