After watching Louise Nelson's CJS 2013 video, I decided to explore crackle medium in this art journal spread. I had a little bottle of Decor Art One Step Crackle (from the dollar store) in my stash so I pulled it out and put it over the woman and let it dry for a couple of hours. I then added a watered down wash of white gesso, and as you can see in the close up, the cracks are quite evident. As an afterthought I added the crackle medium to the pendants at the top of the page, but this time I used a heat gun to dry them. That seemed to be a mistake, since they really didn't crack much and when I applied a watered down black gesso it had almost no effect. Live and learn...
After watching Louise Nelson's CJS 2013 video, I decided to explore crackle medium in this art journal spread. I had a little bottle of Decor Art One Step Crackle (from the dollar store) in my stash so I pulled it out and put it over the woman and let it dry for a couple of hours. I then added a watered down wash of white gesso, and as you can see in the close up, the cracks are quite evident. As an afterthought I added the crackle medium to the pendants at the top of the page, but this time I used a heat gun to dry them. That seemed to be a mistake, since they really didn't crack much and when I applied a watered down black gesso it had almost no effect. Live and learn...
