Saturday, May 5, 2012

Sparkle

I created this based on a challenge at Scrapping the Music.  The featured song this week was "Sparkle," by Rubyhorse.  This song has beautiful lyrics and the verse I quoted reminded me of an angel in the sky.  Someone I know recently experienced the untimely and unexpected passing of someone very close to him.  I thought that the lyrics of this song would give him comfort. 

I started this with gesso stamped with a paisley stamp to give it texture.  Then I wiped blue and white paint on top with a credit card, which creates a great scratchy field over the gesso texture.  I added a tree stencil on the top and on the bottom, and also used Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Blazonry stencil on the bottom for more trees.  I used some star and leaf stamps as well, and a mix of my handwriting and various stamps for the letters.  The woman is collaged and painted with acrylics and Sakura pens.  Overall, I'm very happy with how this turned out!

7 comments:

  1. I love it! I know your friend is going to be comforted by this beautiful work of art, too. Thank you for joining us at Scrapping the Music this week!

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    1. Thanks Sharon. I look forward to being inspired by the next challenge.

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  2. Beautiful journal page! Great idea with the angel. That part of the song is my favorite too...

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  3. WOW. This is just beautiful Jessica! I love the meaning behind your piece - great take on the lyrics! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Scrapping The Music this week!

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  4. Just stunning...you are so talented and your drawing is amazing!

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  5. I have no words except WOW!!!

    I would be uplifted by this piece of work and I ditto Sharon that I too am sure your friend will be comforted by your art.

    Thanks for joining us over at Scrapping the Music!

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