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Documented Life Project 2015 – Week 5

2/9/2015

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Today I'm sharing what I created for week five of
The Original Documented Life Project™ The Journal!
Documented Life Project
January’s Theme
The Blank Page and How to Face It!

January 31 Challenge & Prompt

Art Challenge: 
Under Paper
Journal Prompt: 
What Lies Beneath?

What is underpaper? I didn’t know what it was a week ago either!
But Lorraine Bell explained beautifully: “it’s the scrap paper you put UNDER your art as you work on it. It catches the splatters and over sprays, it’s what you wipe your fingers and your paintbrush on.”
Documented Life Project
My underpaper (shown above) is where I rolled off excess paint from my brayer and wiped off Carolyn Dube's Scribble Scratch Handwriting stencil while making gelli prints for note cards.

Inspired by Sandi Keene's process shared on her blog post, I used my round and oval Fiskars squeeze punches to punch out flower petal shapes. Easy. I used a glue stick to adhere the petals to my journal page. I really love knowing that the flowers of my garden lie beneath the cold, winter ground, so the flower image was important to me for this prompt.
Documented Life Project
I wanted a subtle watercolor background that allowed my colorful underpaper petals to remain the focus, so I grabbed a yellow-green Derwent Watercolor pencil. I dipped the pencil in clean water and painted in the background.
Documented Life Project
Then I dipped a paintbrush in clean water, brushing over the background to blend the color futher.
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Lastly, I added wet Stabilo pencil outlines to my petals, keeping the tip of the pencil very wet to get rich, black lines.
Documented Life Project
Documented Life Project
Thank you so much, Sandi, and all the ladies of Art to the 5th Academy for the inspiration!
This was my first time using underpaper in my journal, and I loved it!

Thank you for visiting my blog!
I hope you have a wonderful week!
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7 Comments
CraftyHope link
2/8/2015 09:42:03 pm

I still haven't done mine for that week, and definitely have been wanting to cute out shapes of some kind with my under paper. I really love the effect you created of making a while design with it. Beautiful job.

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HelenRae Tarantino
2/8/2015 11:41:08 pm

I love using my Gelli print roll offs! This is a beautiful design and I love the colors!

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jean marmo link
2/9/2015 05:04:32 am

This is so cool!

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ann hyde link
2/9/2015 05:15:06 am

I like your technique with this and using the watercolour pencil by dipping it into water first.

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Cecilia Swatton link
2/9/2015 11:21:09 pm

I used to call this "catch-all paper," but I like this new term "underpaper" better! Thanks for reminding me that nothing should ever go to waste -- that beauty can come from everything! Great work, Mary!

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Trena in Naperville link
2/10/2015 12:00:04 am

Love this Mary!! What an awesome idea for the under paper stash of cardstock/papers many of us have. :)
Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

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Sharmon Davidson link
2/10/2015 02:00:49 am

Wonderful work!

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