This has been ticking away slowly and quietly in the madness of early January.
I printed out some colour pictures to transfer – this one is a restored boss with a dragon spouting flame – and found a diagram of English medieval dioceses which I coloured in with water colours.
York Minster was badly damaged by a fire started by lightning several years ago, so I added scraps of textured hand made paper to the bottom of the page and turned them into flames licking the boss.
I also found a great photo taken looking up through the Minster so it framed a section of the sky and transferred that. I’m getting the hang of the transfer process now – three layers of gel medium will keep the image stable while you’re removing the paper backing. Sky added with water soluble oil pastels
I wanted to create a found poem from random words on a double page, so I circled some that appealed to me and then roughly blocked out the rest of the page with gesso.
I covered the gesso with shimmering watercolours in lilacs and blues borrowed from my middle one. (More of the amazing art bargains we got back in October), added a moon and stars card topper thing that I’d had for ages and divided the pages with a piece of printed acetate which was wrapping around a gift from a very posh shop.
Just a bit of finishing to do here, making the words link more clearly and thinking about what my subconscious was doing with the words I chose.
Under A Topaz Sky 
This is beautiful. All of the lovely techniques and images. The words at the end tell the deeper story.
How very intriguing. Food for thought in what you chose to highlight, too!
love how you have treated these pages Alex, especially where you have highlighted the text….