The Stencilfied Journal Prompt 11

Prompt 11 finally allowed us to bring in the page that we were told to hang up outside in Prompt 2. Fortunately the Scottish weather was extremely kind to the page. Normally I would have expected it to be totally destroyed by wind and rain!

But the tropical conditions meant it only got wet once and the damage was restricted to very strong fading.

You can see that clearly below where the page that spend time outside is on the right set against the page that was originally made at the same time but that stayed in the journal (size 9 x 14cm). As a textile artist I'm only too well aware of the damage the sun can do but this demonstrates it very clearly once again.

The prompt also told us to stencil the page. I also made another page to go next to it. Both pages were covered in black gesso. On the torn page (see below) I then removed the gesso with a baby wipe using stencil L640 by Stencilgirl  Products® (all stencils in this project are to be from them). I then stencilled onto the other page with a variety of paints and using the same stencil. You can see the result at the top of this post. Embroidery floss was threaded through the hole I had punched to hang the page up outside, and the page was glued into the journal using double sided tape.