So glad orange and hot pink were chosen for the Summer of Color week 2.
I love this color combo! It’s got 3 B’s going for it…bold, bright and beautiful!!
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My bad mojo with this journal continues.
I can’t say that I hate these pages but they are definitely not my favorites. 
I’m playing with different styles, mediums, colors and textures.
I do know that I am learning through my process but sometimes I think I should just gesso over the whole works and start again.
However, I must say that there are areas of each of the pages that I really like…just not so much the pages as a whole.
This journal spread was several days in the making.
I started with light colors…then went to orange and rust…then an overlay of cooler pastel colors.
I finally settled on some flowers. I had intended on having the flowers be the background color and covering the rest with another more solid color but it all went to pieces.
Oh well. Trying new things and failing is all a part of learning.
I decided that the quote Enjoy the Moment was perfect. I needed to just sit back and enjoy.
It was more about the process than the result this time for me and that’s ok.
I was about to chuck this book in the trash. Every time I made a journal page in this book, it was simply awful. It seemed as if the book was stealing my mojo.
This was a last ditch effort for the book. If I wasn’t happy today…it was going away in a really permanent fashion.
I think I’ll keep it around, at least for the time being.
I don’t know if I’m at liberty to show the poem on the canvas yet….hence the partial photo with words blurred.
My friend Sandy entered a poetry contest and won! Her poem is going to be published. She asked me if I’d do an art piece with her words.
The funny thing is that I had started this canvas became “stuck” at a certain point. I felt that it needed words.
Low and behold…the words fell into my lap. After the words, I added a couple of collage pieces from an old children’s book I saved from the trash heap.
I hope she loves it as much as I do…
UPDATE: She does love it!
Here’s a photo of the whole canvas
I’m back at my Children’s Literature altered book.
Click, Clack, moo quickly became a new favorite children’s book. It’s about these cows that find a typewriter and start sending a list of demands to the farmer. They decide to stop production unless given electric blankets. It’s super cute.
There is actually several in the series now by Doreen Cronin. She definitely has a knack for children’s stories.
Something light, bright and Spring-like was what was called for last night.
Must have been the sunshine that had me feeling the love.