Inspired by a receipt for paints

I'm excited and honoured to be hosting at AJJ this month where I chose the theme 'Inspired by'  

I am inspired by so many things I see, as well as people of course -  if I was to write a list, it would be never ending :) 
My first page was inspired by a receipt for some art supplies - mainly water colours paints but I liked the list of all the beautiful colours on it - so paint and colour just had to be the theme for this piece.

I cut the receipt up just to show the list and stuck it on my A5 page and put a light coat of Gesso over it. Then with a water soluble pencil I drew my images using some of my supplies as a reference. I then painted them with watercolour paints and painted the rest of page with ‘Nougat’ and ‘ Sherbet’ Paperartsy chalk-acrylic paint. Next I outlined everything with a black Pilot pigment pen and finished with the words.

My A5 book is 130gsm cartridge paper so the added layer

 of paper  helps makes the page a bit more sturdier.

you can just about see the words coming through,
 sorry the photo doesn't show it very well.

What inspires you when creating?

Was it something you saw or heard, a song maybe,

  or a book or your favourite place,

 a favourite colour, a memory, a dream, another artist,

  or an art product  or something else ?  

I hope you will come join in this theme at AJJ

I look forward to seeing what inspires you.

thanks for stopping by today

and I look forward to visiting you very soon.

Gill x