The Icelandic Page.

I started this double spread by colouring the gessoed pages using neocolours,then I drew Celtic symbols, and printed off some Celtic images which I coloured.

Next I added lots of Celtic stamping, some white acrylic and more neocolours. I repeated this a couple of times to achieve the layers. I then dripped water from the top of each page, s that it would run through all the colours.

I added even more white acrylic.

Next I wanted to draw a tree, I worried about this no end and went on a tree research trip to the local cemetary...twice in fact...and took over 100 photos of the trees...and squirrels.

Anyway....after much squirrel distraction I finally sat down to draw the tree, I have no idea why I worried, it wasn't that difficult at all.  I drew it onto cartridge paper then cut it out and glued it into the journal.                                                                                                                    

Then I coloured it, first with neocolurs and then with prisma pencils.

For the other page sketched out my hero of the Saga, I hadn't thought this would be difficult, but it was, and so after losing patience with it I painted over it with gesso. That page will get done some other time. So I carried on coulouring the tree side.. 

My journalling for this page came after I watched a programme on the Icelandic Sagas, and I decided to write the journalling in this style.

Now as I really quite liked the tree I didn't want to just glue the printed sheet down. I did think of Safmat, but that would have still left straight edges, and printing on tissue paper just annoys the hell out of me. So I decided to copy the text out by hand. now this was never going to be neat. I do not do calligraphy. I have the pens, I have the ink...but that's as far as it goes.

So I never aimed for it to be neat, instead I made it deliberately messy. I wrote out the text and added lots of ink splodges, more stamping, more white acrylic,more neocolours...and finally some rings of paint around the edges. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Darcy x.