Fantasy Flower

 

It's time to once again join Sheila, aka Orange Esmeralda, at Art Journal Journey where she is hosting this month. By now I'm sure you know her theme is A Single Flower. 

Sheila loves to create fantasy flowers, and mine started out that way.

Sadly, mine turned a bit realistic.

No matter what I did, and how much I kept adding to it, it didn't look like a real fantasy flower I envisioned in my head.

Even the leaves look realistic,

 

although I tried to make the bottom one less real.

The vase is about the only part of the fantasy I got right.

I wish I'd started with the vase, and maybe the flower would have been less realistic.

I was actually playing around with resists when I created this journal page on 110 lb cardstock.  The flower and vase were created using glitter crayons (Crayola brand) that don't spread well.  The glitter caused the crayons to be quite hard and not creamy like regular crayons.  That made them skip, even when I went over the images several times.  What they DID accomplish was to act as a resist when I added the watercolor to the page.  I went over the page several times to enhance the watercolor I used as the background.

Thanks once again for joining Bleubeard and me today.  We are truly grateful you stopped by.  We would also like to see you at Art Journal Journey.  You still have plenty of time to play.