Little Moments Altered Book Art Journal Tutorial - Part One

Starting another new page in this Altered Book Art Journal inspired by my zen garden space. This is a two part video as it was quite a long process! Part two is coming soon!
In the first part of making this page I used:
Distress Inks in Peacock and Dusty Concord
Derwent Inktense watercolour pencil
Liquitex Matte Gel
Windsor and Newton white gesso
Part 2 coming soon....
I hope this inspires you to get creating!

[@donnacarraway9182]

TOTALLY LOVE IT!!!💕

[@hankejoosen4029]

Looks beautiful already. Very excited to see the final result. 🤩🤩🤩

[@SpiritofNatureArt]

Thank you hanke! I'm really enjoying working on this :-)

[@hayleydoherty9557]

Beautiful piece and love how you do your video . Please do some buddha art x

[@SpiritofNatureArt]

Thanks Hayley - so pleased you enjoyed it! Ohh, I'll let that ideal settle in my mind and see what happens!

[@tonihall7810]

My two favourite colours. I think I might have to start one of these projects. Tfs

[@SpiritofNatureArt]

mine too! Happy creating! 💜

[@love-light369]

You certainly have patience! Reason you used white gesso as opposed to clear gesso or the matte medium over your wreath? Just curious about the reasoning behind the choice. 🤔🥰❤️

[@SpiritofNatureArt]

Thank you Love & Light 💜 I always use what I have to hand and I didn't have any clear gesso - there's no reason why clear gesso couldn't be used for either of those bits if you have it :-)

[@jamielemmel]

What is the Jesso you are using? Is that like modge podge?

[@SpiritofNatureArt]

Hi Jamie, gesso is like a slightly chalky acrylic style paint that is great for priming surfaces so your paint or ink doesn't sink in to the page so much so you get truer colours and with inks it means you can move them around the page more before they dry 🙂