I’m back at the drips, splatters and squiggles. I couldn’t help myself.
The partially obscured quote is:
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa
Category : Art
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Another page in my cursed journal. Photographing this page proved to be a challenge. This was the best shot I could get and it still doesn’t have the look that it does in real life. I’m bummed because I think this is one of my very favorite pages EVER.
After I stamped and embossed the pocket watch image, it looked just too perfect. I took some sandpaper to it to mess it up a bit. This made me much happier. :)
I also had to show off my yarn haul from the thrift store. Woo-hoo…lots of knitting and crochet material for the less than the price of 2 average skeins.
We’ve had such gorgeous weather lately. It inspired me to create this journal page day.
Blue sky and puffy white clouds.
A field of flowers…
I think I was also inspired by a recent trip to the MN Landscape Arboretum. So many beautiful flowers. I took well over 100 photos in the 1.5 we were there.
I’ll share more of that day in a later post.
This was the last photo I took that day as we were walking back out to our vehicle. That’s it straight from the camera…no edits…no fussing with color balance etc….with the exception of my watermark, of course.
Here’s the same photo after playing around in Photoshop. It has a completely different mood.
I could play in the digital world all day but there are things in the real world that need my attention today.
I wish I had a time lapse of this journal page. It went through many different stages and colors before arriving at the finished product. This definitely made the background rich and with great depth.
The words were an afterthought…but they fit just perfectly to me. When I rip pages out of my journals to reduce bulk, I often look for phrases that speak to me. I cut them out and save them for a future project. I never pick the words beforehand….always after I have set the paintbrush down.
Whenever I go outside to photograph my art for the blog I have an assistant who likes to tag along.
She really isn’t much help. In fact, she is usually a distraction as I must keep one eye on her so she doesn’t get into trouble.
It usually works out best when she finds a nice sunny spot to get her daily dose of vitamin D.
Oh, the life of a spoiled cat.
I’m not excited about the colors I used on this page but I’m having a lot of fun with the doodles. I think it’s something I’m going to play with more.
Speaking of flowers…
I’m in need to some identification of a “flower” or maybe a weed that has planted itself amongst my spirea bush.
It’s quite large. The leaves are about 6 inches long and the bud it about 1.5 inches in diameter. It seemingly grew up overnight. I’m sure it didn’t and that it was working its way up while I was sick for a week.
The goofy thing is tall as well. I’ve been leaving it now just to see what comes of it but would love to know if anyone could tell me ahead of time. Patience is not one of my virtues.
I’m feeling better each day!! Still can’t sleep laying down but at least we have a recliner. I’m trying to be an optimist here.
I felt good enough yesterday to finish a journal page I started well over a week ago. I’ve been really into splatters and scribbles lately. This page was no exception. I found the image in a drawer. Not sure where she came from but the colors fit perfectly.
Today’s page I was trying really hard not to use scribbles and splatters but in the end…a little bit of white splatters had to be added. I just couldn’t help myself. I did restrain and set the black ink back down…baby steps.
This is the last week of Summer of Color! I can hardly believe it.
This is the color combo I’ve been voting for each week. The strange thing is now that I got it…I had trouble making it work. The photo color is a bit off for the green but my “Photoshop fu” is off this morning.
I painted the background with sage then distressed it a bit. After adding the sepia elements, I used some white rub-ons for visual interest. The bride and groom are my maternal grandparents circa 1929.
Incidentally, this is my 1000th post! WHOA! That’s a lot of blogging. Thanks to everyone who continues to read. I love it when you leave comments to let me know that you’ve been here.