Fat Page Jam #3 - part 2

Now onto the fat pages I made for Flippinpest...

For her chosen theme - children's entertainment - I chose that perennial classic Alice in Wonderland. The backgrounds are wax crayon resist overpainted with Brusho. I used the Tenniel illustrations and adapted them.



For Pattie's Poem theme, I chose Ted Hughes' Crow Falls, mainly because I have just invested in two sheets of Michelle Ward's fabulous bird stamps, but also because the whole poem fitted neatly on the back. You should be able to read it (click if you need to see it larger) but, basically, crow started off white, decided to attack the sun and got scorched to black as he fell to earth.



Zen gravel gardens, that are raked and re-raked in different patterns, are very Wabi Sabi (my theme - see part 1 for brief explanation). I originally had an idea to make the front by glueing quinoa (Fairtrade organic, no less!) onto the card and then overpainting. All I made was a mess! So instead I rolled some plasticine into long ropes to form concentric circles. I then tore pieces of thin handmade paper and pasted them over the circles with gel medium. Lastly I painted with acrylics, dabbing brush markers and finishing off by grinding rock salt and black pepper on top.



I inked the back in Pebble and Lake Mist (Adirondack) and embossed in a Cuttlebug folder. I smeared gesso lightly over the picture and overstamped with...um...Chinese characters (my bad, but I didn't have any Japanese stamps).