I’m playing along with Art Journal Journey again. The theme is masculine/feminine.
I started this background for a different challenge then abandoned it as it wasn’t going the direction I had envisioned. This gave me a great starting point to draw a face.
I’m certainly not great at faces but drawing with the eyes closed certainly helps. The way I figure is if I keep trying they’ve got to improve over time!
I added some paper and fabric collage with some found text to balance out the pages.
Several weeks ago I mentioned an upcoming article but wasn’t at liberty to discuss until now…
It’s here! My complementary copy of the Summer 2015 edition of Sew Somerset.
Last September I was approached by an editor of Sew Somerset about my fabric collage cards I had listed on etsy. She asked if I’d send some to her for possible publication. You betcha! (sorry my Minnesota is showing) So I sent off a dozen cards and didn’t hear anything more until February when I get an email requesting that I write an article to go along with the cards they planned on publishing. YES!!
I am in absolute awe of how lovely they made the layout.
The closeups and color combinations…wow! And that is why those people are pros!!
All in all I have 5 pages! Amazing….I’m thrilled! Seriously thrilled!!
I want to thank Sew Somerset for publishing my words and art. It’s very uplifting to have asked to be a part of this wonderful publication.
Hazzah! I finally completed this page. You can’t even imagine how many layers and colors are under this background or how many times I have walked away from this page in disgust. Believe it or not this page started out all cool pastels. I just couldn’t get myself to like it. Yellow isn’t my usual color either but it just felt right. Now I have to say that I love this page.
Happy Mother’s Day!!
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