May 20, 03:02 PM
Week One
I just joined this class last week, so I’m a bit behind, but hope to get caught up straight away. I haven’t done my cover yet as I want it to be indicative of what’s inside, and this is so new to me, I have no idea what this thing will look like when I’m done. As soon as I have some sense of that, I’ll create one.
I have 2 reasons for joining this class. Reason 1, having become a 98% digital scrapper I was desperate to do some creating with stuff I could feel…I really miss the textile part of creating, tearing paper, smooshing paint around, all of that. Reason 2, my daughter and granddaughter have lived with me for the past year, since my granddaughter was born, and just got their own apartment. Besides missing them horribly, I’ve been worried that my life is going to get boring and routine without them so this class was a way to prevent that. All that being said, this first assignment being about new beginnings seemed like a great way to express this change, however this piece turned out a bit darker (not color, feel) than I imagined it. My intent was to show the positive things this change will bring, but I ended up getting stuck in how much I miss them (which is where I am right now).
I used acrylic paints on most of the background. Tore up little pieces of white paper and some white mulberry paper which I glued down for the journaling. The word ‘transition’ was printed on a transparency and attached with brads (I may go back and color the back side of it so this will stand out more). The picture of me I applied “Dave’s Midnight Sepia” action to in Photoshop. The lock and broken key stickers are from the Nostalgiques line. And the window is from Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas. Thanks for looking!
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