 A great way to create an interesting background for your journal pages is to add colour. However if use a wet medium such as watercolour or acrylic your pages may warp, unless you have good thick paper in your journal. Another option is to use soft pastels. The new PanPastels are ideal for this as they are soft and creamy and produce very little dust. You can create very soft blended effects – this example uses Yellow Ochre, Turquoise Shade and Hansa Yellow Shade, and was then lightly overstamped with Colorbox Chalk inks -
Of course, PanPastel are also designed for the serious Pastel Artist – see information page for more details, a short video demonstration and an example by Pastel artist Donna Aldridge.
This week is the last time to purchase PanPastel at the special introductory price! Head over to the Journal Craft store to take a look.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Maria // Apr 26, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Do you fixate the Panpastel before you continue or write on it?
2 GillM // Apr 30, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Maria – it depends on what you want to do/use. The stamping in the sample above was done without fixing the surface first. Some pens write better than others on a PanPastel background. I will be posting a white pen test on the blog shortly – with different pens tested on different backgrounds including PanPastel, so keep a look out for that.
I do find that things sometimes do not stick to a PanPastel background, so I either erase a little or paint over with Matte Medium.
Hope this helps…
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