Category : Creativity

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Back in the saddle

enlightenment choose your pathI’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.

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SOC3: sage and sepia

Sage and SepiaThis 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.

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Catch the Wind

catch the wind

 

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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Two blue challenge

birds on a wireI 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.

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SOC3: Candy Apple Red & Yellow

cherries red and yellow red and yellow quote

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.

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SOC: Charcoal Grey & Pale Pink

20130702_2348 20130702_2350 20130702_2349So 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…

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Words to live by

words to live by

 

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. :)

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