I spent the whole of yesterday evening attempting to create the cover of my Travel Art journal. It took much longer than expected, but at least it's a start.
These are the first layers of paper mâché on my piece of cardboard , both on the outside and inside cover.
After a couple more layers of paper mâché I gave up with newspaper and decided that kitchen towel would give me the rough texture that I wanted. Once I'd done that, I went over it again with more newspaper so it'd be nicer to paint.
It still needs a couple more layers and then it'll be ready to decorate. I think I'm going to cover it in gesso; rid the horrible newspaper colour and then stick down pages from my old passport, stamps, maps etc... Hopefully then I can cover that in this beautiful bronze acrylic paint I bought the other week.
This is the first journal I've made from scratch so I'm really excited to see what it looks like. Fingers crossed it all turns out nicely.
