This is not so much a project as a play with Tando bits and pieces. Casting around for something, anything, to get inky and messy with my box of Tando provided some food for thought! The end result is this journal page. Which makes me smile every time I look at it, the bright bold colours and the naive style is very appealing. Added to which it was a lot of fun! If precise, neat and tidy is your thing then this is not for you. But if you enjoy just messing around with no finale plan in place and prefer a more playful organic approach then you might find a few ideas here.
Having discovered the parts left in the Large Whimsical Birds kit (to be seen on TV 9am 4th March 2022) it occurred to me that they do not have to be legs and feet or cockerel combs but could also be plants/weeds/growing things. So I laid them onto a blank journal page and added another Whimsical Bird to start my layout.
Pieces removed out came the watercolours and sprays to start a background. Different shades of blue applied with a water brush and randomly brushed across the page. Then the "plants" were put in place and strayed with yellow and white.
Then I started choosing colours to work with, in the end I used every single on in the picture below. Strong Bright Bold Cheerful colours an antidote to the overcast wet and windy weather we have been subjected to recently.
By now some other Tando pieces had been pulled out, another Whimsical Bird Some Butterflies and a couple of Flowers. Everything given a coat or two of acrylics right out of the pot. It is not clear in the picture(s) but both of the Whimsical Birds and both flowers were given a top coat of the Interference paints. These paints add a second tone that shows up as the page moves in the light.
When the "plants" were moved after spraying the masked areas of the page stood out bright and so I decided to offset the Tando pieces to allow the unsprayed parts of the page to peep through. Everything attached with normal adhesive except for the now purple bird at the bottom of the page, on this one a glass gel was used on the main body which enhances the Interference further and gives the bird a very glass like finish.
To me there is something of an underwater world about this page but you might see it very differently. Thats all part of the fun of an organic page like this.
Products Used
Watercolours, Sprays, Adhesives and Glass Gel all from my stash.
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