My new 7x9 mixed media album

I JUST KNOW YOU'RE EXCITED!!

I am because it's really fun.

I decided that the pages needed to be gessoed even

though it's deemed a "mixed media" book.

Canson from Hobby Lobby - and it does keep

the pages flat and it does "smear" different.

Tell me you can see a "horse" in this photo

or maybe a "knight"? 

as in chess?

And yes it's quite purple.

 Love the colors on this. 

I'm quite diggin' the bigger size I am really

getting bored with small sizes.

I'm so used to doing whatever size I please.

I miss that.

 This turned out quite monochromatic and soft.

Pretty.

 And then I got bored.

I broke out the dylusions and just went for it.

Mostly just smeared the paint around and

decided that some black dots were needed so

I broke out this huge stamp.

And went to town.

 These colors are fun too.

Just smearing the watercolors all over

using the packaging technique.

 And then I broke out the dylusions again.

I found that even "I" as unartistic as I am

can do swirls with a paint brush.

It took FOREVER for the paint to dry.

And it some cases it really wasn't totally dry.

I like it.

And of course nothing is complete without black splatters.

So now I have completely different paints
bright and soft.
While it's cool - it does blow the whole concept of
cohesiveness throughout.
Unless.............