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Closeups of Bottles

Halloween bottles

Gesso sponged on book page. Green inks rubbed on top.

Here I scraped some gesso onto pink cardstock with a credit card. Stenciled words with gesso. Rubbed over with pink inks. I added more gesso to make the words pop out more and added more stenciling with ink. The colors seem a little too Valentine's Day for me but other than that I like it.

I love how this came out. It reminds of carved stone. Latin text stamped into wet gesso. Green and black ink rubbed on when dry.

Gesso over black paint applied with a credit card. Overstamped with script. I love how the script disappears in the darker areas. Thinking this will be good for a Halloween project.

I used a piece of shrink plastic as a makeshift stencil. Sponged gesso over the stencil then when it was dry I rubbed silver acrylic paint over the whole page. The whole thing blended together a little too much so I sanded the top with a piece of brown bag. That helped the pattern pop out a little better. After I was done I hit the gessoed shrink plastic with my heat gun and got a really cool texture.

Gesso Backgrounds

I tried stamping with gesso here. On the top I used a slightly damp sponge to apply the gesso to the stamp before rubbing on brown ink then overstamping the floral pattern. On the bottom half the sponge was much wetter-this actually gave me a better impression. The texture here doesn't come through in the scan very well but it looks awesome in real life. The one thing I do like about the top part of the piece is that I was able to rub some of the ink of while it was still a little wet giving it a faded look. That didn't work as well on the bottom half.

Playing with gesso

Here I stenciled on some gesso using the negative from a square punch. After it dried I rubbed on burnt umber glaze.