Hello Friends! We have a new product to share with you, some new pages from the SBG Gallery, and a tutorial! After my post last week on Everything You Want to Know About Gesso, Tangie released a Digital Gesso Texture Set of  19 “painted” gesso textures (see Art Journal Caravan 2011 Provisions {Parcel 30} Apprentice Art Box Edition By Tangie).  As posted in the description, “It contains 19 gesso “painted” textures in .png format and includes 4 bonus gesso shadow styles in .asl format for PS/PSE users (won’t work in all programs but you can still very easily use the gesso textures!).  It is designed to work well with The Art Journal Caravan. It’s also great for everyday scrapping or altered art projects.”

Art Journal Caravan 2011 Provisions {Parcel 30} Apprentice Art Box Edition By Tangie

The Art Journal Caravaners embraced the gesso textures immediately and an outpouring of creations filled the gallery. Here are a handful…please click on the images to give them some love in the gallery.

Itinerary 30 Intensify by Grace

Itinerary 30 Intensify by Grace

Paper from Deconstructed Journals No 3 by Tangie Baxter
Paper from Gypsy Spirit Solids by Tangie Baxter
Parcel 30 Gesso Textures by Tangie Baxter
Art doll by Rebecca McMeen from Parcel 1 Tangie Baxter and Rebecca McMeen collab
Books from Tapestry of Time by Butterflies and Bluebells
Quote: Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. Vincent Canby
Art Journaling Font Mock Turtle by Tangie Baxter

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tangie_Parcel 30 – 19 gesso textures

Font: tangie_AJCMockTurtle Bold

Photo: Me

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Intensify #30 by MsKaty

Intensify #30 by MsKaty

My background kinda says Intensify too!
Credits: Deviant Scrap’s Color Splash and Tangie’s 19 Gesso Textures Parcel #30.

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Intensify by php57

Intensify by php57

Credits: Laurence Designs Chance Partie 2; Tangie Gesso Textures

Quote: The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman Mailer

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Being True To Me by lmgdonahue

Being True to Me by lmgdonahue

Created with Studio Rosey Posey’s Being True kit. Also used the gesso styles from AJC Parcel 30.

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AJC 2011 - Intensify by Bitte

AJC 2011 – Intensify by Bitte

I have been trying the gesso thing… This page kind of made itself.
There have been some terrorists bombing Oslo, Norway today.
It’s very scary… and the fact that it’s so close INTENSIFY my fears of what’s happening
in the world around us. The world is getting closer to our little corner here in Sweden…
This is my reaction on it.

everything is Tangie’s stuff.

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TUTORIAL Using Tangie’s Gesso Textures

I do have a tutorial on how I used Tangie’s gesso textures myself to create an digital art journal page. This is my page…

Art Journal Caravan Itinerary #30 Intensify by Julie Ann Shahin

Art Journal Caravan Itinerary #30 Intensify by Julie Ann Shahin

Supplies:

Paper: Quickity Split N Print Vol 3, Journal Anthology IV,

Embellishments: Paperlace, Serendipitious, Journal Anthology IV, Journal Anthology II, Journal Anthology,  Black Licorice ATC, Altered Dividers, Dominoes Bliss, Quickity Split N Print Vol 3

Borders: A Door Opened, Diving In, Deconstructed No. 4, Day of Dead,

Gesso: Art Journal Caravan 2011 {Parcel 30}

Instructions:

Art Journal Caravan Itinerary #30 by Julie Ann Shahin

You may also be interested in:

Art Journaling 101: Why Art Journal?

Art Journaling 101: Digital, Hybrid, and Hands-On Supply Basics: Color/Photo Printers

Art Journaling 101: Digital, Hybrid, Hands-On Supply Basics – Printables

Art Journal 101: Tutorial – Using Border Printables

Art Journaling 101: Supply Basics – Taking the Mystery Out of Gesso

Julie Ann Shahin is a New York-based art journaler, scrapbooker, mixed media craftster who specializes in hybrid and altered art techniques. She will be blogging regularly for tangiebaxter.com on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You may contact Julie Ann directly at julieann dot shahin at gmail dot com

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Taking the Mystery Out of Gesso

When I started out in mixed media and art journaling, it took me forever to figure out what Gesso is used for. It seemed to me that I heard the term used quite often, but could never figure out quite exactly how and why it was used. Let me put you on the fast track to learning all about Gesso today!

My first word of advice is you do not have to go out and buy Gesso right away! Some artists use Gesso all the time, some artists never use it. If you are a beginner, I suggest take your time just doing art journaling with what you have, but read this and have the knowledge of what Gesso is. You’ll know when you’re ready to buy Gesso. When I was a beginner, the curiousity of Gesso was killing me…I just couldn’t find anyone to explain it to me to my satisfaction. So check out this post, and then put Gesso on your wish list!

This article will also show you a number of projects using gesso, and then a handful of free online tutorials of gesso techniques. Enjoy!

ALL ABOUT GESSO

One very useful website for information on using Gesso in Art Journaling is Aisling’s Artist’s Journals. In an art journal, one can use Gesso underneath paint, under embellishments, as a support under heavy collage, to keep acrylics and markers from bleeding through to the next page, and to adhere two pages together in an altered book to make them strong enough to art journal on. You can also transform a glossy paper or covering to a matte one with Gesso.

Gesso looks like paint unless it is Clear Gesso. Most often you will see Gesso in white, less often in black, but it does come in many colors.

WHERE TO BUY GESSO

Gesso is sold at art stores and big box crafts stores in the paint aisle. You can buy it online as well…usually it is at least $10 however, I found this Certified Artist’s Gesso for less than $7 here. If anyone can testify to it, please leave a comment. The same link offers many other types and brands of Gesso. Usually I have used Liquitex and Golden.

USING GESSO

Gesso, unlike paint, creates a rough surface when applied, which allows other mediums to catch to it.  It is not as thick as paint, so it can merge into the background.

You can add acrylic paint to Gesso. You will get a muted in color, chalky result when you add a color acrylic to Gesso.  However, the acrylic paint will now be thicker. Milliande.com suggests using Golden Acrylic Paints to mix with Gesso as “as they have a lovely color intensity in their pigment but also don’t alter the fluidity of the gesso too much.” She also suggests, “You can also add concentrated watercolors like Dr PH Martins Watercolors or colored inks. Colored pigments can be added to gesso as well like twinkling H2o’s, Pearl Ex Powders for a shimmering effect.”
You can use just a foam brush with gesso. Or you can use an implement to create a texture, such as a comb to leave ridges.

Here is a wonderful video by Milliande creating an art journal page with Gesso:

Let’s see some projects using gesso:

Valentine Postcard Swap Hand stitching, gesso, stamps, and flowers on recycled packing paper. by HagitR All Rights Reserved

Background Gesso Texture: Made for Mary Green's Paper collage class. The gesso is white digital paint over torn papers to make an unusual background. Texture free to use. If you do, let me know, I'd love to see what you create. This also looks great with a dark texture underneath and blended with the Blend If tool !

Copyright 2008 Judy Scott All Rights Reserved

by Kathryn Johnson

Supplies: Image transfer, mono print, gesso & paint layers, masking, spray ink

by Didi aka OnFoot4Now

Artist states: “My acrylic paints, gesso, pages from old textbook, printout from my digi stash and a bit of a magazine clipping.”

Time Is A Circus by itstimetostamp (Kristy C)

by itstimetostamp (Kristy C)

Supplies: Black Gesso, layers of ephemera underneath , acrylics, graphite, stamping. Collage image is one artist got a few years back from Bernie Berlin.-she used peerless watercolors to add some color to the image.

Art Journal Page by dearlydee

by dearlydee

Supplies: Old envelope, lace, staples, masking tape, gesso, sequins.

by Pringle Hill (Terri Kahrs)

by Pringle Hill (Terri Kahrs)

Supplies: Mixed media journal spread created for 2011 calendar project. The background was created with Inktense pencils over gesso and fluid acrylics.

art journal: dreams by Francoise MELZANI

by Francoise MELZANI

Tags:peinture

• acrylique
• transfert
• ailes
• cirque
• clown
• petite
• fille
• reine
• gesso
• embellissements
• jaune
• rouge
• bleu
• rose
  
  

Grace by By Bellah (gabriella travaline)

by Bellah (gabriella travaline)

by ke_cupcake (Elaine)

Journal Pages by By beamahan (Bea Mahan)

by beamahan (Bea Mahan)

Cream Journal by FishStikk (Debi)
There is alot of collage here with vintage Time articles and clippings, tags from work, paper towels handmade papers and of course the beads on the tiara. And of course, lots of gesso.

From grrlscrap.blogspot.com – lots of gesso and tags

From gingerbread.typepad.com – gorgeous collage and gesso work

From cathyb.typepad.com- Great Texture. Gesso sprayed with Shimmerz.

From leblogamarca.over-blog.com – Dye and alcohol inks on gesso and embossing powders

From daisyyellow.squarespace.com – inks, stamped with gesso, plus correction tape to set up journaling spots

Tutorials Using Gesso:

The One Minute Muse – Art Journal Technique – Gesso Figure

From thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.com – working with gesso

From freewebs.com – Gesso and magazine images tutorial

From mixedmediaart.net – gesso resistance background technique

From splitcoaststampers.com – Gesso Resist Tutorial

Gesso and Stencils by bloombakecreate.com

Gesso With Stencils Tutorial from bloombakecreate.com

From thecolorroom.ning.com – Make your own borders with masking tape, shimmerz, stamps and gesso!

How To Make Gesso

Tee's Gesso Recipe

Tee’s Gesso Recipe

Julie Ann Shahin is a New York-based art journaler, scrapbooker, mixed media craftster who specializes in hybrid and altered art techniques. She will be blogging regularly for tangiebaxter.com on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You may contact Julie Ann directly at julieann dot shahin at gmail dot com

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Today I am sharing with you a tutorial for using Printables as promised last week. I will create a hybrid Art Journal page with Border printables. I love Tangie’s Borders! I have for you a two-part video tutorial, and also the same tutorial posted in step-by-step photographs below. Watch the video or check out the written tutorial, or both!!!

Let me know if you have any questions. I apologize for the quality of the video. LOL

TUTORIAL PART 1

 
(Sorry I can’t figure out how to embed the videos in WordPress. I highly suggest taking grabbing a cup of tea or coffee and watching them on Youtube if you have 10 minutes, for my additional comments in the video!)

Art Journaling 101 – Border Printables
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFUrcQKaxo[/youtube]
View on Youtube HERE

TUTORIAL PART 2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubzpUEWoLtw[/youtube]
View on Youtube HERE

WRITTEN TUTORIAL

1. Start with a roughly painted background. Adhere vintage pattern tissue paper with gel matte medium. Dry with heat gun.

2. Mix gel matte medium with a bit of white acrylic craft paint. This makes the white paint transparent. Paint over the tissue paper. Dry with heat gun. (photo below)

3.  Cut out Collage Fodder Head Printable and adhere to page with gel matte medium. (photo below)

4. Draw journaling lines with a fine tip marker or pen.

5. Adhere large border pieces with gel matte medium. (photo below)

6. Adhere Dominoes Collage Printables with gel matte medium. (photo below)

7. Write the journaling “Don’t forget to be awesome!” Outline it with black. Start to outline the borders and add dots. (photo below)

8. Finish with more dots and adhere a butterfly punch to the page. Enjoy your completed art! xoxo

Resources:

Quotes Bundle by Tangie

Copic Markers

Sharpie Fine Point

Golden Matte Medium

Julie Ann Shahin is a New York-based art journaler, scrapbooker, mixed media craftster who specializes in hybrid and altered art techniques. She will be blogging regularly for tangiebaxter.com on Tuesdays and Saturdays. You may contact Julie Ann directly at julieann dot shahin at gmail dot com