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    Pete may have a problem

    Hello! Did you miss me? I’ve been around just not keeping up with the digital world. Summer is passing so quickly and it seems as if the appointments and events are multiplying on the calendar. This seems to happen every year at this time.

    I finally was inspired to do some art journaling. I started with a page I had used to clean my brushes and palette on during a long ago project. Having that base of color gives a jumpstart on building the layers that give depth to a page.

    Pete's problem art journal page| Halle's Hobbies

    After putting down some more colors it was a little too “in your face” for me. I took some white paint on my finger and mellowed out some areas. The end result made me much more happy than the beginning loudness.

    I found the image of the old cowboy in a bin and thought his color scheme meshed well.

    Pete's problem art journal page| Halle's Hobbies

    Then it was the hunt for the perfect found text to give life to the page.

    Pete's problem art journal page| Halle's Hobbies

    I thought these words spoke to the worn down look of the old cowhand.

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    SOC 5 week 3

    The colors for this Week 3 of The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle gave me some trouble. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to proceed so I didn’t until today.

    1 purple + 1 purple + 1 yellow

    I happened upon an image of a little girl all in yellow in a magazine ad. I figured she’d work perfect for the yellow portion. I used gel medium to adhere the magazine image to some printer paper so she’d have a little more stability as I cut around her.

    For the background I once again decided to use gelatos…

    SOC5 week3 2

    So far they haven’t failed me. Although I was surprised at how pink the lavender gelato appeared on the page. I decided to just press on since the tube was clearly labeled lavender.

    SOC5 week3 1

    Instead of doing a straight up checker board I went with random rectangles. The blending gave a slightly dreamy quality in my eye.

    SOC5 week3 3

    I searched through my collection of phrase fragments until something came together.

    These colors definitely had me stepping…or perhaps leaping outside my comfort zone. That’s what challenges are for, right?!?!