I’m not in love with this page. I wish I had stopped with the background and just put the words.
Oh well..it is what it is and today is a new day to try something different.
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I know that title looks like I don’t know the difference between two and too but in this case two is the proper usage.
The challenge was to use at least two different blues in your artwork. I used way more than two. :)
After I got all the background finished it looked like a sky to me. Since I have some fun bird on a wire washi tape I painted in some telephone poles so they’d have somewhere to perch. The plane was an afterthought but I think it was needed to give some depth to the page.
I imagine myself laying on the ground, listening to the birds in between planes coming in for a landing at the nearby airport.
Time is flying!! It’s week 5 of Summer of Color already!
These colors always make me think of feed-sack cloth, vintage aprons and kitschy kitchens.
So what else could I do but an ode to a simpler time.
Not wanted to waste the extra paint I scraped it on another book page. After finishing the cherries page I love the look of the pages so much I decided to dress it up a bit .
It’s a two for one this week.
So here we are at week 4 of The Summer of Color with Charcoal Grey & Pale Pink. A much easier set of colors for me.
I had a bit of a hard time getting the right grey until I read on Elizabeth’s post that she puts a little purple into her grey’s to give it more intense color. It worked!! So happy….thanks E!
I’ve been doing a lot with splattering paint and inks lately. It seems to add the texture I’m seeking.
I have to admit that this shot with those colors makes me think 1980’s…”like totally“. There are parts of the 1980’s worth reliving…
I’m also loving the texture I pressed into the grey. I was actually trying to stamp some black texture into it but the paint was still too wet. I decided to run with it.
I had some “help” taking my photos this morning…
More art journaling…I can’t stop. I’m hoping this will become a good habit of mine. The bad ones are too easy to pick up. :)
For so long I struggled, and likely will again, with art journaling. Lately, it’s all I want to do. I’ve even started another book, one from the public library’s free shelf. It’s a teen fiction book called Kira-Kira.
kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining
I loved that! Also since it’s a slightly smaller book, I thought it would be perfect for another art journal.
I turned to the middle of the book and started painting with my fingers. No thought…just went for it. I definitely thought I’d wrecked these pages several times over.
First when I accidentally flopped the wet pages together, causing them to stick and tear away the top layer.
But in fact, it created some really fun texture and effect that I could have never created on my own.
Yummy, grungy texture…makes me so happy!!
The second and third time I thought I’d ruined the page was when I stamped the words with dye based in and it quickly faded and soaked into the painted page. I went back with pigment ink and it was a really crappy image. I once again re-inked with pigment, carefully alining the stamp and finally got an image I could be happy about. As it turns out, the dye based ink looks a bit like a shadow that I meant to have…happy accident.
I wish I didn’t have so many things on my plate today…I’d love to play with paint and paper all day! What are you doing today?
This page just sort of happened. I started with some blues and my fingers…threw in a little green…then a bit of stamping for background texture. Some circles of white made me happy…I love circles.
I squirted some black ink straight from the dropper then gave my brush with the white paint a little shake. I love the drips and splatters.
When I sat back and looked I thought…BE BOLD. Because I was…I didn’t over think it..I just did it. So go ahead and be bold today!