Build a coffee table visual journal that measures up to 16 x 21. The journal cover is a painted board with a doorway cutout, which tips out to expose a personal mantra. Through a series of creative jumpstarts you will be guided to create calligraphic backgrounds, graphic typography collage, lush painted papers, the black and white pages that spill throughout this large format book. Paint wonderful abstractions of florals integrated with photos to document a recent travel journey, display a collection of personal memories. Inside the journal is housed hand painted and stained pages that flip and fold in non-traditional ways.
Supply list: Favorite heavy bodied, fluid and/or ink acrylic colors Acrylic glazing medium 2- USPS priority mail flat rate large boxes 5- manila folders 15-20 sheets of misc. papers up to 12 x18 this is a large journal, so the larger the better (collect things you have in your house like ledger paper, sheet music, drawing, watercolor, craft paper, maps, large desktop calendars, magazines, newspapers, vellum Bristol, wallpaper, rosin, construction) 5-10 sheets- 11x17 Black & white photocopies of images/writing/journal pages/- sharp contrast images work best. TIP: enlarge symbols, letters, words on photocopy machine 15- 2-ply white paper towels (Kirkland from Costco) 5 sheets of freezer paper Roll of masking tape 2-3 wide or gaffer tape (any color) 2 flat brush (hardware store brushes work great) 1 flat paint brush 2- 1 foam brushes Trowel palette knife Plastic paint scrapper Cutting mat & Xacto Blade water containers Brayer Golden soft gel gloss (16oz.) Tacky Glue Scissors Gesso Black chisel tip sharpie Painting smock 2 binder clips Bone folder Awl Paper needle waxed linen various beads and baubles
Optional supplies to enhance your project: Favorite unmounted stamps/stencils Doodling tools-prismacolor pencils, gel pens/markers Collage ephemera/paper scraps in various colors & textures, photographs Heat gun
Supply Fee includes: Collage Unleashed aRt! kit of papers &
inspiration guide, misc. tapes, canvas, glitter, mark making tools,
sumi ink, prismacolor pencils, gel pens/markers, sand paper, canvas,
unmounted stamps and stencils.
