Green – Grey Tones
Main Colour: Soft Green
Complements: Salmon Orange, Pink Purple
Type: Twist - unusual grey-blue softens the entire wheel
Created from Frescos: Lemon Meringue, Prawn, Glacier Ice
Hi everyone, it's Etsuko (My favorite things) with you today, and I'm here to share with you a Mixed media 'Junk Journal' project that for our current 'Split Complimentary' colour wheel topic.
Rather than mix up the colours suggested in the colour-wheel above, I decided to choose existing colours from the PaperArtsy Fresco range that were similar but a bit deeper in tone. To Prawn I added Sour Grapes and Niagara Falls to represent the split complementary concept.
When I saw Jo's new stamps, I had the idea to make the Junk Journal using fabric. And I wanted to make a junk journal incorporating fabric and see how this colour wheel might change if the same colour and different materials were used.
The first thing I did was to decide on the paint colour wheel theme, and I chose these three paint colours for me. My main colour was PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Niagara Falls (FF205), and with it's split complimentary colours being Sour Grapes (FF115) and Prawn (FF98). One of the split complimentary colours nominated is a little more yellow than Prawn, but the gauze fabric is coarse and i expected the colour would be lighter when painted, so the Prawn was used as is, another close options could have been Peach Nectar.
I painted the fabric to see how the colours would look. I used gauze fabric so that the paint would look soft in colour and fabric would not become stiff after painting. You can also add textile medium to your paint for washable permanence and softness on fabric, useful if painting clothing, not so important for journal or fabric art.
The painted fabric was used for the petals, stitched and cut around the petals using an embroidery frame to create the focal point and other printed fabrics were patched to create the background. I added the sentiment of JoFY113. On the spine I made tassel from leftover and used them as decoration.
Now prepare the window for the first page, the small JoFY114 flowers printed on the acetate with StazOn Pigment Snowflake, made a hole in the lace page, glued the acetate from the back.
I painted the tulip used Niagara falls (FF205), Sour Grapes (FF115), Prawn (FF98) these three colours and a touch of Mustard Pickle (FF148) as a highlight.
I made the frame by placing a piece of fabric dyed in Niagara Falls underneath the painted tulip, and stitched a small flowers from JoFY114 on the background the page.
I embroidered JoFY113 tulip on this narrow rectangle page although I did not use three colours.
I though pocket page was nice, then I made a pocket to put a tag in.
I made the pocket using various of laces. JoFy114 flower painted and stitched.
Finally I made a patchwork page using the main colour and the two split complementary colours print fabrics. Each fabric was Sashiko stitch with the same type of colour embroidery thread, and the seams are embroidered to give a little depth to the printed I then decide on the pattern to be placed in the rectangle. The flowers made in the previous photo was cut with a thin cotton for quilting on the back and sewn to make it little fuller. JoFY 113 sentiment was embossed in black powder on the white painted fabric, cut and sewn then finished page.
I used JoFY114 and ESN61 stamps for the front and back covers and simply made in the main colour Niagara Falls.
This slightly smoky colour wheel was a combination of colours that I rarely use, but it was a lot of fun with this project and I wanted to continue exploring this further it. Please share with us for your creations using these color wheel on PaperArtsy Instagram or in the Facebook Group 'PaperArtsy People'.
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Etsuko xxx
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