Dark-eyed Junco mixed-media piece

Ingredients used from my Recipe for Play:

• Dina Wakley Media acrylic paints – Lemon, Tangerine,
• Golden Artist Colors – Titan Buff
• Book papers
• Washi tape – Little B. and Tim Holtz
• Handmade collage papers
• Black Stabilo pencil
• Black Fude Ball 1,5 pen
• Caran d’Ache Neocolor IIs – Bleu Turquoise and Olive Clair
• Derwent Inktense Pencils – Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Peacock Blue, and Mauve

I created this piece while following along with a lesson in Nathalie Kalbach’s Creative Jumpstart 2018. The lesson from Day 1, led by Mystele, was to create a recipe for play and then to carry it out. She demonstrated from start to finish, her creating a mixed media piece that was a portrait of a girl. I was inspired by what she did, but my subject matter was very different as I decided to paint a junco, which we are currently seeing a lot around our house. This was a lot of fun. I think I’ll incorporate this into a journal page although it can stand on its own. In the above photo you can also see a portion of the “recipe card” I made. Thanks for visiting.