One of my favourite bands is Squeeze - Difford and Tilbrook write the most amazing lyrics, and Up the Junction is brilliant, for so many reasons. It's all in the present tense, but tells a story over several years. And it is really poignant. I used to live around the corner from Clapham, and I used to catch one of the old routemasters (the ones you could hop on the back of, you didn't have to wait for the doors to open). I put all of this together, and came up with:
I found a fantastic artist's sketchbook, A3 size, so this is really going to give me space to play! I watered the page, and smooshed on quite well watered brusho pigments. They are still quite vibrant colours!Then I did some stamping, using archival inks, and a little bit of stencilling - musical notes!
I stamped the words and the bus in Archival. I added a little more watered down brusho to the bus, and then some white enamel accents - the old no 11 was this cream and red livery, back in the day.
I doodled around the edge of the words (this is the last line of the song), added a little shading underneath and, hey presto!It is amazing how much difference that little bit of shadow makes - this is the page BEFORE shading.
On the facing page, when it has dried a little, I am going to write out the full lyric. But it is still a little damp at the moment!!
Hope you like!
Resources
Paint and ink
Brusho pigments: Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, Black, Sea Green, Leaf Green
Archival Ink: Jet Black, Watering Can, Red Geranium, Sap Green, Fern Green, Manganese Blue
PaperArtsy: Nougat
Stampin' Up: Whisper White Pigment ink
Aquash watercolour crayons: Black
Stamps and Stencils
IndigoBlu: Square Peg Round Hole, Harlelquin
PaperArtsy: London Plate HP1208EZ
Artemio: capital letters
Hero Arts: Printers type lower case
Tando Creative: Music Mask
Bling and other stuff
Micron Fineliners
Sakura Gelly roll stardust pens
Enamel Accents: White
Fabulous page, great song lyrics. Haven't listened to squeeze for years, this challenge will have me delving through records and CDs.
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Excellent. I think I will have to look at some of these challanges and give myself so focus for 2014.
ReplyDeleteGreat start for our new challenge
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn.
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