Art Journal Prompt: Good Fortune

Instructions:

Create a page to show what good fortune means to you.

This prompt is in my list as a concept prompt. I intended it to let the kids explore what good fortune would mean to them… friends, family, lots of toys… etc.. While I’ll let them do just that, I changed my focus a bit when I saw a request by Leann d'Ouville to participate in the " Make your Mark project ". This is a 200 book Round Robin hosted by Dick Blick and the LaGrange Art League. She was looking for pages to put into a book that would become the property of the League and would be auctioned off for proceeds to benefit the Art League, or it would be placed in their permanent private collection.

So I have adjusted my page for the Fortune prompt so that I could create and send this page to her for the project. We were required to use a fortune cookie fortune for our pages and to do both the front and the back of the page.

Please feel free to follow my original prompt or to grab a fortune cookie and see where you can go with it.

My Pages:

Fortune---Joy

Fortune---f

My Process:

First step – Background. I did both sides of the 8.5 x 5.5 page at the same time.

Color - using the bright colors you see on the “Take One” page -- I did just random mottled colors on the front, like I often do – then stripes on the back
Brayer – then I brayered on white acrylic paint to both sides
Journaling– I journaled on the mottled side with a ball point pen. I don’t remember all that it says… but it’s a blessing about sharing all that I have, finding your own joy and then sharing it with others
Gesso – then I gessoed over the whole mottled page
Neocolor – Finally I did a little green neocolor over the mottled page to unify the colors some and make the background sink down… well into a background.

Second step – Collage. I printed these butterflies from a Google search.

Collage – I adhered the images with matte medium – including the fortune
Define – pulling out the inktense pencils, I defined the butterflies and the fortune a bit. I set the ink with my waterbrush. Then I did shadows with some watered down acrylic ink in another waterbrush.
Shine – I added glitter glue to some of the veins in the butterfly wings and to the dots I created on the fortune. I love glitter.

Here they are all shining in the sunlight!

Blue-Butterfly

Golden-Butterfly

Third step – Pocket. I cut out a scrap of satin fabric and wrapped it around cardstock to form the pocket. Then I adhered that to my striped page.

Fourth step – Collage. I had a slip from office depot for a computer that had the “remember” and Take One” printed on it… perfect. I cut those out and put them on with matte medium.

Fifth step – Inking. Back to the inktense pencils, I wrote in red and blue, then used the red to define the collaged pieces.

I brushed it all with the waterbrush to soften it and make it spread a little.

Sixth step – Journal. I took my ball point pen and drew back over the lines that I’d written before in ink.

Seventh step – Tuck. I tucked in all the fortunes that I’d been collecting into the pocket