Stamps Used:

• 33001 I Bingo
• 42009 I Large Latin text
• 54006 F Baroque square

All the colors and shades came from mixing hansa yellow medium, cerulean blue, cadmium red, burnt sienna, zinc white and bone black Golden Fluid Acrylics.

I decided to use the angel piece just below for the cover of my Round Robin book, but now needed a back cover. My starting point began with a piece of art I made several years ago, but never felt was quite finished (shown on the right).

The darker background was covered with the same hansa yellow medium, cerulean blue and zinc white from the first piece.  A page from an old book was glued down to cover the wings.  A glaze of burnt sienna was used to shade the face, text and design element.  The darker greens were made with a bluer green and a bit of burnt sienna to make them more gray. These greens were stamped and painted.

The same stone angel picture I used for the first piece (not a transfer this time) was printed and cut out this time.  She was then outlined with the white pen. Small scraps of embossed paper added texture to the 2 covers.  Bone black was brushed around the edges with my finger.

The back cover to my stone angel book.

Stamps Used:

• 33001 I Bingo
• 39003 G Spiral design
• 40003 H Small rough alphabet

All the colors and shades came from mixing hansa yellow medium, cerulean blue, cadmium red, burnt sienna, zinc white and bone black Golden Fluid Acrylics.

The background was made with hansa yellow medium, cerulean blue and zinc white. Several lighter and darker shades were made for mottled effect.

An Omni Gel transfer (using the wash away transfer paper) was made with one of my stone angel pictures. There are 2 versions of the photo in the stone angel gallery. The original and a second where I added a film grain effect with Photoshop.  A page from an old book was glued down first then the transfer. 

 Stamps Used:

• 58003 A Small acanthus plant

The background wash (paint mixed with matte medium) and yellow shades came from mixing titan buff (my favorite color), hansa yellow light, and Iridescent gold deep Golden Fluid Acrylics.

I glued down the cut out angels and the paper.  I highlighted the angels with my Neocolor I (NOT the watercolor crayons but the oil crayons) yellow crayon.  I stamped the small acanthus plant in straight paint.  The outside edges were highlighted with an orange crayon.  These are the wax based crayons not the watercolor Neocolor IIs. The wrapping paper was cut out and glued with gel medium.

Stamps Used:

• 58002D Small solid fleur

The background is a wash (paint mixed with matte medium) of Iridescent Gold Deep.  I painted over this with Burnt Umber Light and wiped most of it off to tone down the gold.  The edges of each page were painted with stronger and stronger washes of Burnt Umber to create frames.

I cropped and enlarged the angel image to just the face.  An Omni Gel transfer was made from the copy.  I also printed out 2 smaller versions of the original image.  These were glued down with soft gel medium.  The fleur was stamped with a mixture of Iridescent Gold Deep and Metallic Bronze. The embossed paper leaves were cut out and pained first with Burnt Umber Light, then highlighted with Iridescent Gold Deep. These were glued down with soft gel medium. The outer edges of each page were painted with Iridescent Gold Deep. The angel images were also framed with gold.

Stamps Used:

• 40003H Small rough alphabet
• 47003 I Audience

Everything is shades of a great mixed gray except the angel picture. I used Cerulean Blue and Burnt Sienna (with a bit of Zinc white a few times) to mix all the variations. To color the embossed paper I used the gray straight. For the background I mixed it with matte medium.

The name of the cemetery in Paris is stamped across the artwork. It was supposed to be straight, but it wouldn't fit. So the words were stamped askew.  I used a black crayon to color around the outer edges and embossed paper.  These are the wax based crayons not the watercolor Neocolor IIs.

The embossed paper are for sale on the Miscellaneous Page of my website.