If you go down to the woods today.....

Thought I'd try a new technique for this weeks The Butterfly Effect theme of In The Woods, chosen by the very talented Cameron.

As I haven't tried gel transfers, and have LOADS of photos of trees, it made sense to combine the two. I am also using a new FB group called Prompts to Get you Started, who this week have suggested making 2 pots of words, one words of inspiration the other colours. You just pick out one word from each pot to literally get you started :D I selected Desire and Black.

So off to prep a page in my Altered Book of Stuff.
Just acrylic paint scrubbed on with a dry brush.

Then I took my matt medium and smothered the page before adding my photo face down, and squooshing as flat as I could.
After letting it dry(which I could probably have left longer), I started to wet and gently rub off the paper.(can you tell I was making this up as I went along?)
Yay!! It seemed to be working.....but the photo image started coming off too. I think I was being a bit impatient(or using wrong stuff:S)
I dried the whole grubby looking mess with my heat gun and the picture disappeared again, so I tried coating with clear gesso and this brought enough of the image back for me to work with it.
I wanted to get an organic feel to this piece so worked with soft pencils, picking out shapes..

tiny supplicant figure....
Stag-headed Daemon/God?
Finding shapes and highlighting....
using black (normally use blue or green) to emphasis sinister darkness.

Something a bit different.....will the supplicants prayers be answered by the Beast of Dark Desire?

mwahahahaha........:D XXX