 Γεια σας και είναι Vicky but Welcome to another art journal layout Today I will be working on my large dilutions art journal and I am going to apply my background using my braille Now the braille that I am using here is about 3 inches but it doesn't really matter you can use any braille that you have Now just because this is a new book and I can open those pages flat Αυτή η τεκνή είναι να βγω. Αν ήμουν να βγω με το μπαίι με την αδερφαία ή με το μεγαλύτερο παιδί όπου μπορείτε να βρεις το μπαίι που έχω, δεν θα μπορώ να αντιμετώσει το μπαίι σε μπλεσίο. Ελπίζω να μπορείτε να καταστρέψετε τι σημαίνω. Θα μπορώ να μπορεί να παιδίω σε εκπραγματικά. Λόγω επειδή αυτό είναι έναν νέο μπαίι και μπορώ να εβγάψω το σπίτι Νομίζω ότι θα μπήρες σαν πόνο. Σήμερα, εγώ βοηθώ με τα πόλια μου τα κοφίνιες. Αυτές είναι τα πόλια Τσοκ της Παίπερ Αρτσή. Και παρακτηρισμούς, μπορείς να δημιουργήσεις να τα αντιμετωπίσω. Τώρα θα δείξω τη τεχνική εδώ. Παρακτηρισμούς να πω ένα τόπο του παρακτηρισμού σιχεδικού σιχεδικού. Και θα αντιμετωπίσω τη παρακτηρισμού όλο τα παρακτηρισμού. Τώρα είμαι μπροσφητικά και οριζόνταλλη και really love the effect that I get. It really gives a nice texture. As you can see I don't press too hard. I'm just working with the brayer and let it move up and down only with its own weight. So now I'm building up the layers. You can see the colors on screen that I have used for my background. The first one that I have used, the lighter one, is called Haystack and is opaque. Which is going to give a nice first layer on my page. Then I moved to my second color which is my middle color and that was called pumpkin soup. And that was translucent. Which means that it's not going to cover up what's underneath all the texture that I have built up. And finally as you can see I am using the darker color which is going to add a lot of texture. This is called brown shed and it's semi opaque. Which means that it's not going to actually cover up what's underneath. Also notice that as I am moving from one color to another I don't even clean my craft mat or the brayer. I did the exact same thing on the other side. And now I'm going to do the sky and the sea. So I am going for a beach theme layout today. Again I am applying just a dot of paint making sure that I spread it out on my craft mat. So I don't get too much paint on my brayer. And then I am going to spread with vertical and horizontal movements. So I get all those nice strokes. Now with this technique, especially since we are working on the sky, don't go crazy if you see white spots. These are going to be red from your brain as if they are clouds at the end. And they are going to give a great texture. Now I have finished working with my first color which was Smurf and that was an opaque color. It's always nice to start with an opaque color since it's going to add a lot of color as a base. And now I have moved on to my second color which is again an opaque and it's called China. This is slightly darker than the first one which is going to build up the colors. And it's going to give even more texture. And you will see that now I am going to do a technique for creating the sea. Now this is a darker color. It's called glass blue and it's translucent. Which means that it's not going to cover up the texture from beneath. I am only applying this dark blue color at one side of the brayer. So it should be about one and a half inch. Of course I am not measuring anything. And at the same time I am trying to keep my lines pretty much straight since I want to create the illusion of having the horizon back there. So I am going to do the same technique on both pages. And once I have a nice thick layer of this darker color I am going to switch and do the exact same thing on the other side. So I have the straight line at the top now. Of course nothing has to be perfect since we are going from a loose abstract kind of background. And here is the finished background. I am pretty happy with how it looks and the pages are kept really straight since I have used my chalk finish paints. Now you can see how easy it is to clean up your brayer. Just use some alcohol with a piece of cloth. And now I can move on and do some stamping on my background just to add a little bit more texture. So I am using this paper artsy set and I will go with this large rectangle. And I am going to stamp all over the sky by using my archival ink and that's aquamarine. It's slightly darker so it does leave an impression but not so vibrant which is exactly what I am going for. I am going to do the same thing on both pages and I have zoomed in so you can see better what I am doing. I am not going for a perfect impression I just need some texture back there. And then I am going to do the exact same thing on the sea but since the sea is slightly darker I am going to switch to another archival ink color and this time I am going with cornflower blue. And finally I am going to stamp on the sand with the same stamp but this time I am going to use saffron archival ink. So I am making sure that I have cleaned up my stamp before I move on to the lighter color and you can see that again I get a very subtle impression without having anything too vibrant back there but at the same time I do have some interest. Now between the sand and the sea I want to add some white dots so from this paper art system set I have used those dots which I am going to stamp but instead of using a white ink pad I am going with the fresco finish paint and that's the color of snowflake which is opaque and that means that I will get a nice impression which is going to stand out against the colors that are underneath. These white dots are going to give the illusion of the wave and as I am stamping I am making sure that I rotate the stamp so I don't get always a repetitive impression. I am going to do the same technique on both the pages and at this stage I am pretty happy with how my background looks so it's time to work on my focal points. Now I get so many questions about the focal points and people say that they don't have the correct stamps or that they cannot draw they don't feel confident about that but I am going to show you how easy it is to create an art journal by just printing out images from the internet so I have found this bus as well as those palm trees online and I am going to show you exactly how I did that. A great site where you can get thousands of royalty free images is Graphicstock and Graphicstock is sponsoring this video today with a gift for you too. So I visited Graphicstock and searched for Camper and you can see tons of images I picked up this one which you can see that at the right side there are different formats that you can download and save on your computer. I have also looked for palm trees and you can see that once I write this down I get photos of palm trees but just because this wouldn't work with my project I wanted an illustration so I am going to select illustration here and I get different types of photos and I am going to look for some palm trees that would work for what I am doing and I finally decided to go with those palm trees with the nice bright colors and I chose these ones just because they are easy to cut but I am going to enlarge these files so you can see once I save it on my computer and print it out I can easily cut out the images I am going for a paper piece art journal today and since Graphicstock is sponsoring this video you can get your exclusive 7 days free trial where you can download 140 pieces of content by visiting graphicstock.com or by clicking the link down below in the description area so you can recreate pretty much the same thing that I did today you can print out the palm trees as well as the van or you can download many many more images that you like in those 7 days so I am using my scissors to cut it out and what I like about using digital images is that I can resize them and make them as big or as small as I want to to match my project which is something that you cannot do when you are working with stamps so after cutting them out I am deciding where everything is going to go and once I am happy with the placement I am going to commit and stick them down by using my mat medium gel now as I am doing that just to let you know that as always you can find the full list of all the supplies that I am using today just below the video in the description area as well as on my blog now since I need to stick that bus along the fold I made a notch where this is going to fall and I am going to cut it out so I have 2 pieces of my bus now which I am going to stick down separately and this is going to help my book open and close while it's going to help me stick everything down nicely I also have a tiny little piece from that wheel there which I am going to make sure that I stick it down also and now I can go ahead and use my mat medium to stick everything down as I am sticking them I also made sure that I covered the elements with my mat medium and this helps the technique that I am doing now which is doing the shading by using my big brush markers now big brush markers can do this only when you are working over a non porous surface this technique that I really love and I go back to again and again just because I feel that it helps all my elements all the papers that I have stacked down they look so flat at the moment to come to life and pop against the background so first I am doing the shading with a darker color than the base color the color of the paper in this case of the palm tree and the more shading you add the more dramatic look and the more they will pop I am going to do the same thing on all the palm trees and then for a more dramatic look I am going to add some brown and help my elements pop even more I am going to repeat the same process on the rest of the palm trees and then I am going to do the tree trunk and as always I am using a marker I am doing sketchy lines all around those images and this technique is helping the image pop even more but at the same time it gives an illusion that I have actually painted and drawn all those images now as always I am also going to use my white gel pen and add some highlights on the leaves and here is how it looks after doing the shading all over the bus as well as the palm trees so at the moment I am using a black pen to do the sketchy lines all around the surf as well as the bus and you will see how this helps the bus and the surf pop even more and then of course I am going to use my white gel pen and add some highlights and now I am going to use the same stamp that I have used on my background and I am going to stamp on the red part of the van this is going to make everything come together since I am repeating the same pattern on the background as well as on the foreground instead of using an ink pad you can see that I am using a big brush marker which is the exact same color that I have used for shading the red part of the van I am going to use my heat can just to make sure that everything is nice and dry and now I can move on with my quote today which is going to be hello summer I am using an acrylic block and I am going to stamp the letters one by one and just because I want to have a nice and sturdy surface to stamp my letters on I have used my cutting pad from my Cisix machine just underneath now I am stamping the letters one after the other instead of the whole word because this is helping me to get a better impression due to the bulk that the book gives if you stamp the whole word you will not get a perfect result I am using black archival ink for my letters and after having everything down I am going to use my white gel pen but I am going to add some highlights on the letters and don't forget to click the link down below to visit graphic stock and take advantage of your exclusive 7 day free trial and that was the project for today I hope you had fun and good inspired and if you did don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me thumbs up on my youtube channel here are some close up photos of the project Thank you for watching