Battered Wall Collage

Hello all,

I managed to squeeze a little time to do a couple of journal pages last night. They were inspired these photos;

My finished pages:

I first covered both pages with masking tapes, horizontally.

Then I applied gesso and texture paste with a palette knife to exaggerate the horizontal lines.  Drew little circles with brown water-soluble crayon and smudged with wet finger. Spritzed some water to dilute the browns some more. The resulting texture mimics the white retaining wall in the photo.

Let dry, then collage random patches of burlaps, cotton linens, washi tapes and odd metal objects. Sprinkled yellow acrylic ink at random spots while spritzing with water. Turned the journal upside-down, left and right to let the yellow ink dripped all over the pages. Love how the rags collage mimics the dilapidated wooden door. 

I think these had to be my chunkiest journal pages, ever!. LOL. Chunky pages are fun. So that's it. Just playing with random collage :). Have a good weekend!.

Hugs,

Shahrul

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