A Bit of Steampunk Art

   Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. I hope your week is going well. 

   Today I want to share a page for Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's Anywhere, Anytime, Any Place with Anyone challenge at Art Journal Journey. I'll also be linking  up to Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge # 123 since I have more than 3 types of media on my page. My page is a little bit steampunk and was one of those pages that took a while to figure out when it was actually complete.

    I started out by using up some left over red paint. I made all the circles on my page.  Then I decided to make some blue painted circles inside of the red ones. 

     At another session I sat down and took a black Stabilo pencil and outlined the black circles. I then took  a wet paint brush and went over those circles. I love how I get that dark and slightly fuzzy look with the wet brush.  After that I used watercolor paint and painted my background.

    I can't remember whether I added the gears next or whether I splattered the page with some black water color paint. Either way, those were the next 2 steps.  The gears are made of chipboard and I got a small set of them as a freebie when I ordered something sometime back. They've been sitting on my work table for a a while now, and it was time to use them.

   Here's my finished page. You can see  I added to it. And yes, I couldn't get the top right corner to lay flat so the top of my photo isn't very professional looking.

    There were more gears in this same set, so this time, instead of  painting them black I painted them copper or silver or in the case of the light bulbs, bright yellow. I didn't have a problem using scissors and snipping some of the gear sets apart so they would work on my page. 

    Then I used some various AALL & Create bits of pieces I had on my page. I also used the "cacophony" word stamped (Impression Obsession) a few times around the page, but I thought that if there are gears turning, it would get kind of loud and create a cacophony.  I particularly like the dog face since he looks like he might be a junk-yard dog so to speak. 

   To finish my page I took my roll of clear crow tape. I have no idea who made it or where it came from, but I love cutting the crows out and gluing them down on a page. I thought since they can make a lot of noise they would work with cacophony words.

   I had a lot of fun making this page, even if it took a while to make it. I hope you enjoyed seeing it.