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.
I’ve been waiting all year, heck since last year, for this post.
The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle is here and I’m ready to share my page for the first weeks challenge.
1 blue + 1 blue + 1 green
I decided to use gelatos since I have a nice selection in coordinating colors.
I scribbled the three colors straight on the book pages then spritzed with water. I blended with my fingers then closed the pages onto one another and quickly pulled them back apart. This gives a fun mix of the colors over top of each other in a very unique way.
My quote “The one who plants a garden plants happiness” guided me to stamp some flowers with faded denim distress ink across the bottom of the page.
I ripped bits of the baby wipe I used earlier to simulate clouds.
I stamped my quote on some dress pattern paper since I had it laying around. In hindsight I wish I’d taken the time to dig out some white tissue paper instead.
The words in text came last. I saw them in my bin of saved phrases right there on top and decided they were meant to be on the page as well.
Thanks to Kristin for once again hosting this great challenge.
Good morning! I’m once again linking up with T stands for Tuesday where we grab a beverage and have a little chat hosted by Elizabeth.
I talked about my garden here at home as well as the one at my in-laws but you’ve never seen the the space at the in-laws.
It’s a really big garden! They downsized from the original when the critters got so bad they had to put a 5ft fence around.
She has a huge strawberry patch! We picked almost 4 quarts last Saturday. YUM!! The boy snapped this photo of us covering the patch with bird netting after the harvest. He told me he took a few photos when I asked him to put away my camera. He said he found photography relaxing. 🙂
After a hot day in the garden there we came home, had a late lunch and a well earned glass of wine.
Any guess on what these flowers are??
You’ll never guess… Horseradish!! My horseradish was blooming. I cut off the tops to save the energy for the plant.
I, of course, have a few errands today. I hope to be back inside before the forecast 97°F hits this afternoon. YUCK!
What are you doing today?
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