Black and White +1

Hi everyone.

The last 2 weeks have flown by, and it is time once again for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday. Thanks to all of you who joined us for our texture challenge. And thank you Carole for being our guest designer.

Our new challenge is Black and White +1.

 I began my page with a dark yellow watercolor marker and a stencil. I stenciled the leaves randomly around the page, and then I took a big wet brush and ran it over the page to spread the color. I didn't really have any page in mind when I did that; I wasn't even planning my page for this challenge, but I loved the effect. It reminded me of wallpaper, so I had the idea of making a table top and a bouquet of flowers for this still-life style page.

All the flowers, leaves and the vase are drawn as on outline with a black Sharpie on white paper. Then I fussy cut them and arranged them. The bouquet looked rather bland, so I used my black Sharpie, a black pen and a white pen to doodle in some details.  Those details really make the pieces look very different from each other. 

Finally, I stamped this fun quote.

All kinds of art with a black and white +1 theme is accepted at Try It on Tuesday. Our challenge runs for the next 2 weeks. And definitely check out the design team's pieces. They have lots of ideas to inspire you.

Since you might notice I put some tulips in my bouquet, and tulips are a spring flower, I am also linking up at Art Journal Journey, even though the particular yellow background is not really a "spring" color. This month Valerie is hosting and her theme is spring. 

Thanks for visiting.