Adding colour to the Arts and Crafts Images

Well I guess the title says it all. Started with a photocopied outline using felt tips , then added guta to the outline. But you can see on the lower right what happens if you do not watch what your doing, as I smuged the guta with my hand ! Took a picture with this stood up against the PC screen on the mobile and it looks like a stain glass sheet =)

Next started working on a sheet where I have stuck down the photocopied putline last week and covered it with gesso. Added colour using oil sticks. This worked so well. The oil sticks are great for blending colours together. Although I am not sure that the light colours used are very typical of the time period.

Finally went to the raised version from last week. Here the plants were cut from think paper and the covered in gesso. Next I gave the whole sheet a wash of raw umber (brown) to give the feel you see on Margaret Macdonolds gesso pictures. Next added colour using water colour. The range of colours feels closer to the Arts and Craft period.