Today we’re continuing our collage paper challenge. Can you believe we’re on #7!

Today’s color palette was a bit of a challenge and took some experimenting to get the right colors. But that’s part of the fun and a good chance to grow.

The focus was letters and numbers… which I love in my work. So I did a lot of gel prints with some new letter and number stencils in the shop. I was itching to do some gel printing so this was perfect for this journal page.

I love the play in our journals, and got lost in the layers!

I’ll share the process in the video. You can see the list of the color palettes for our challenges as well as the focus (shapes etc.) for each challenge in the Subscriber Library.

Supplies used:

• Handmade journal
• Liquitex matte gel
• Liquitex gesso black
• Acrylic paint – Golden so flat raw umber, Grumbacher – hookers green, Liquitex basic naples yellow, Liquitex burnt umber gouache or soft body acrylic
• Acrylic paint – House paint in my bottles – burnt sienna, cad yellow, dark teal, matte black, titan buff, pure white
• Gel press gel plate 12×12, Brayer
• Collage paper
• General’s charcoal pencil set,  Koh-I-Noor Artist’s soft pastel pencil set

Stencils used – THESE WILL BE ON SALE THIS WEEK

• Fun dots 2 9×12
• Scribble marks 1 8×10
• Letters gothic lg 8×10
• Letters mixed rough 8×10
• Letters rough lg 8×10
• Letters rough sm 8×10
• Letters tech lg 1 8×10
• Letters tech lg 2 8×10
• Letters tech lg 3 8×10
• Letters tech lg 4 8×10
• Numbers gothic lg 8×10
• Numbers gothic sm 8×10
• Numbers rough lg 8×10
• Numbers rough sm 8×10
• Numbers tech lg 8×10
• Numbers tech sm 8×10