A New Journey - NATURE

I completed another spread in my journal, NATURE. This was an interesting experiment.  I started with a rice paper butterfly serviette, added some stamps for texture and covered the pages with a light coat of gesso and added color.  I used the Marigold stencil from Donna Downey splitting it to cover both pages and added color with a sponge.  On the left panel, I added a die cut of a flower, painted, repainted, added glitter and outlined in black.  I also used a stencil for the word Nature. When I looked at the final page, it was dull so I added some Glossy Accents to the butterflies on the right page using my fingers so it would not be isolated to a specific area. When dry, I was not happy so I thought I would spray both pages with a final coat to protect them and also provide a finish to both pages.  I used a heavy spray of Grumbacher matte Picture Oil Painting Varnish. The results were amazing in that the glossy appearance on the right-hand page disappeared and actually went flat.  You could no longer feel the texture from the Glossy Accents but the glitter remained.  It was like the varnish dissolved the texture.  I have other fixative sprays but wanted to try this one.  I LOVE TO EXPERIMENT. 

I will add this to LET'S PLAY, using a product not intended for acrylics.