Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Art Journal Day 13 - Orange


My inspiration for Orange was "Wild Sweet Orange" Tazo Tea. The label inspired an ATC a few months ago. When Misty prompted us to journal with Orange today, I knew I'd be using the tea label again.
Today I mixed acrylic paint to get different shades of orange. I used Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, Permanent Rose & Titanium White. Depending on the amount of white used, you can come up with a nice orange sherbert hue. I also added a bit of burnt umber for some of the darker shading. A sepia Pitt marker was used to outline the flower. I used a black gel pen for accents and journaling. There's also a bit of watercolor pencil accent work, too.


I also added a bit of stamping to add texture. A chalk ink pad works great for this.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What an original application of the technique of color, my Dear Regina ! I love all your diaries.

Shayla said...

Pretty! Do you use pitt pens to write in it after?

Kelly Warren said...

regina, these are beautiful!

Regina said...

Thanks for your sweet comments.

I journaled with a Pilot G-2 gel ink pen on this spread. It's currently my favorite pen for writing and comes in a few different colors. It's not stable on this surface. After I photographed the pages, I went on to prep more pages for the rest of the week. Some medium leaked onto the bottom of the page and disolved the ink.
The flower is outlined with a Pitt sepia calligraphy marker.
I did use Pitt pens to journal on some of my earlier pages and on the Hope painting in a previous post.

Nicole Austin said...

bright, beautiful orange! i love the big, bold flower! fun pages, thanks for sharing.

nicole

Anonova said...

Great sunflower! Love that deeper orange.

Anonymous said...

your orange pages are great! i love that flower...

Anonymous said...

I love these pages. Seeing them makes me feel happy.