Howdy!
Well, that was fast! November {Thanksgiving} came & went!
Onward to Christmas! Yeah?
I urge you all to keep your eyes peeled or you'll surely miss it!
I'm posting a couple of (3) journal pages that have transpired over the past few days.
It has taken me a weird amount of time to get them started & finished.
I have been pretty uninspired & unmotivated lately.
No Umph! No giddy up!
At all.
But although I'm still somewhat in an artistic funk, I did push through & I got them done today!
& I actually feel better for doing it. :)
Before the pages though, I want to participate in Artsyville's list it Tuesday, yeah!
This weeks suggested topic: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
1) been to France, Switzerland & Italy with NO pictures to show for it.
2) proposed to the boy who stole my heart
3) gave birth to a 10+lber; I swear that epidural shot was a placebo of some-kind.
4) 3 tattoos
5) blue hair
6) drove STRAIGHT to Colorado from South TX - 22ish hours
7) moved 8 times in less than 13 years
8) ate an entire bag of wedding cookies by myself after high school graduation. non stop.
9) stayed home from school one day to watch all the Rocky movies back to back
10) busted my eye lid in a car accident, still have a scar
Now, the journal pages with some detail
Here I played with coarse pumice gel & clear tar gel.
I mixed acrylic w a scoop of the coarse pumice gel & slapped it on the page.
After it dried a bit, I put a layer of Extra Heavy Gel Matte Med
Then I mixed some more acrylic (cadmium orange hue) w the pumice gel & made circles
The purple is NOT mixed w the pumice gel but it picked up some of the texture from the orange circles.
Side note: page started with black stencil w dylusions spray
I mixed the clear tar gel with black acrylic and splattered it on the page. This was harder than I thought because it's pretty thick. But it was neat!
Bottom left is a tag that says REAL LIFE with washi tape.
the first layer is blue gift tissue paper
then I applied acrylics w a baby wipe, then dropped alcohol ink (citrus)
washi tapes are the "flower" stems
left side is a strip of scrapbook paper & I journaled on it...(A. Morrissette lyrics)
Pens/markers: gelly rolls, nano-liner, sharpie poster paint marker in black
Also used stamps w staz on
Letter stamps w staz on: I'm Sane But I'm Overwhelmed (more A. Morrissette lyrics)
PS. Hard to write/draw over a tissue paper texture background!
I wasn't sure what was going to happen with this one.
Started w a couple of acrylic colors & india ink doodle.
Didn't come back to it until 3 days later,
Cut hearts out of scrap paper that I was using to test gouache paints, I drew inside them w nano-liner and outlined w oil pastels
stamps w staz on
stencils w red ink spray
red tag w tim holtz wordage that says: He Can Help Her Find A Smile
Although these pages are not my favorites, I don't hate them.
They helped me in pushing through this artistic funk I have found myself in lately.
I was consumed with reading blogs & looking at pictures for the past week+ that I found I wasn't actually DOING anything; I was merely hunting for inspiration. Most of the time I am successful at finding it among the art journaling stars but this time.....although everything I found was fantastic....it wasn't doing anything for me. It wasn't getting me excited or happy or hopeful...instead, I was feeling the complete opposite; almost discouraged, if that makes sense. So, I logged off the computer, put some groovy tunes on & just pulled out my stash & started messing around.
I know I am in a better place now for just DOING.
& what it comes down to, my friends, is that everything is just fine, fine, fine
;)
Toodles
xo
K
{{Listening to: DWTS finale!! ahhh!}}
Onward to Christmas! Yeah?
I urge you all to keep your eyes peeled or you'll surely miss it!
I'm posting a couple of (3) journal pages that have transpired over the past few days.
It has taken me a weird amount of time to get them started & finished.
I have been pretty uninspired & unmotivated lately.
No Umph! No giddy up!
At all.
But although I'm still somewhat in an artistic funk, I did push through & I got them done today!
& I actually feel better for doing it. :)
Before the pages though, I want to participate in Artsyville's list it Tuesday, yeah!
This weeks suggested topic: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
1) been to France, Switzerland & Italy with NO pictures to show for it.
2) proposed to the boy who stole my heart
3) gave birth to a 10+lber; I swear that epidural shot was a placebo of some-kind.
4) 3 tattoos
5) blue hair
6) drove STRAIGHT to Colorado from South TX - 22ish hours
7) moved 8 times in less than 13 years
8) ate an entire bag of wedding cookies by myself after high school graduation. non stop.
9) stayed home from school one day to watch all the Rocky movies back to back
10) busted my eye lid in a car accident, still have a scar
Now, the journal pages with some detail
Here I played with coarse pumice gel & clear tar gel.
I mixed acrylic w a scoop of the coarse pumice gel & slapped it on the page.
After it dried a bit, I put a layer of Extra Heavy Gel Matte Med
Then I mixed some more acrylic (cadmium orange hue) w the pumice gel & made circles
The purple is NOT mixed w the pumice gel but it picked up some of the texture from the orange circles.
Side note: page started with black stencil w dylusions spray
I mixed the clear tar gel with black acrylic and splattered it on the page. This was harder than I thought because it's pretty thick. But it was neat!
Bottom left is a tag that says REAL LIFE with washi tape.
the first layer is blue gift tissue paper
then I applied acrylics w a baby wipe, then dropped alcohol ink (citrus)
washi tapes are the "flower" stems
left side is a strip of scrapbook paper & I journaled on it...(A. Morrissette lyrics)
Pens/markers: gelly rolls, nano-liner, sharpie poster paint marker in black
Also used stamps w staz on
Letter stamps w staz on: I'm Sane But I'm Overwhelmed (more A. Morrissette lyrics)
PS. Hard to write/draw over a tissue paper texture background!
I wasn't sure what was going to happen with this one.
Started w a couple of acrylic colors & india ink doodle.
Didn't come back to it until 3 days later,
Cut hearts out of scrap paper that I was using to test gouache paints, I drew inside them w nano-liner and outlined w oil pastels
stamps w staz on
stencils w red ink spray
red tag w tim holtz wordage that says: He Can Help Her Find A Smile
Although these pages are not my favorites, I don't hate them.
They helped me in pushing through this artistic funk I have found myself in lately.
I was consumed with reading blogs & looking at pictures for the past week+ that I found I wasn't actually DOING anything; I was merely hunting for inspiration. Most of the time I am successful at finding it among the art journaling stars but this time.....although everything I found was fantastic....it wasn't doing anything for me. It wasn't getting me excited or happy or hopeful...instead, I was feeling the complete opposite; almost discouraged, if that makes sense. So, I logged off the computer, put some groovy tunes on & just pulled out my stash & started messing around.
I know I am in a better place now for just DOING.
& what it comes down to, my friends, is that everything is just fine, fine, fine
;)
Toodles
xo
K
{{Listening to: DWTS finale!! ahhh!}}
