From Week 8.
Used alcohol inks and blender for the background. Not really that happy with it, turned out different once I wrote on it. Next time I may leave the art alone… all part of the learning curve huh!
Peace
This page was in response to the prompt of writing down ten thoughts on our mind today. I actually wrote the list a few weeks ago, but didn’t do anything with it until I was inspired last week. Acrylic paints; pages from an old math book; orangey magazine cutouts; alphabet stamps for the word ‘today’., I’m not really liking this page, not sure why… a bit too monochromatic, I guess.
Using the theme sent by Shimelle, I was also inspired by the Effer challenge this week to create a back ground paper using words. SO the random note approach was the result. However, as hard as I looked I could not totally journal in cut out words – so I filled in….
Journaling reads: “Passion, it is the ultimate gift for my family. Living with a passion for simple living. Life’s simple pleasures. Be a force for nature so that my children can have a better world, leaving less damage than our forebearers, to invest in futures of my children, the world’s children. Invest by living green, natural food, whole grains, meals with less meat and less JUNK FOOD. The determination to change towards a natural life. A pledge for the planet a force for nature. Living a simple life, being frugal, recycling, reusing!
Are you comfortable being nature’s mom, caring for the health and well being of the world. Living simply so others may live? Being creative and organic and living this well-honorably-living as inspiration for the future.”
Probably a grammatical nightmare! But who cares right?
This was a left over space in my art journal, and is in answer to Shimelle’s challenge towards HOME. It was around Week 3, so I’m just a little late, and haven’t done any for many weeks either. My original home entries were more than a little sombre, and involved dripping blood out of a manekin assemble. This one has been in my mind for many weeks now, I’ve even had the photographs of my neighbourhood ready for quite some time. I just needed to get around to doing it.
Techniques – photographs of doors printed out onto photo paper in black and white, stuck down. The same photos were also printed onto inkjet transparencies which were overlaid on the black and white images, very slightly offset. The scan doesn’t show the slightly halo effect that exists in real life. White ink used on alphabet stamps for the journaling – why? Because white gel pens no longer exist in this world.
I am intrigued by the thought that doors are actually portals into someone’s world.
Skipping around a bit. Inspired tonight to play again. Busy traveling and the stuff of life. Lots of layers of “stuff” in here…
I had to re-think my last approach to this topic.
Now, I feel satisfied.
One quote.
One image.
One color [basically, lol]
I way overdid my last attempt.
This time I let JRR Tolkien speak for my heart.
Thanks for looking,
~jane swanson
A main reason to be doing the Art Journal is to replace the suffering with joy. This is a quote by John Calvin, the Reformer.
All paper: Club Scrap.
Thanks for looking,
~jane swanson
