I have always loved the quote I used, and I’d been wanting to include it in my art journal somewhere. so here it is. I just used gel medium and acrylic paints for the background. I put it on really thick and then just stamped into it. Just stamped the quote and flower on with paint. TFL!
This is my “sludge” entry. It sounded so easy, but once I got started I changed everything, didn’t like the color, didn’t like the font, didn’t like the image! OH well, this is the end result. Everything here is digital. My original intent was to journal around the picture, but I’m kind of liking it clean. I’ll probably add another page and journal on that….or not :)
I just had to say that I love transparencies. I’ve seen many of you use them and loved the look so I finally purchased my first packet at WalMart this weekend and used them with the BREAK prompt. Loved it! Came out fabulous! Although I will have to admit I printed on the wrong side of the dang thing not once, but twice. Thank God they just wipe clean. They allow you to add layers but at the same time keep the various layers seperate. I love the depth they gave to my page. I just hope I don’t become a transparency junkie and use them on every page from here on out! Thanks for the idea gals! This week – gesso. Hope I fall as in love with it.
All that talk of sludge got me writing on a page I had done some scribbling/painting on already – one side about “sludginess” and the other about the way any white pens I have never work!
This is my “one” prompt page. The page was hard to do emotionally because it is a pic of my Dad who died a couple of years ago. I haven’t been able to do any stuff on my dad til now. When I was thinking of one image, I just immediately thought of this photo and the word “gone” just popped into my head. I guess it sums up the bewilderment I still feel that Dad is no longer here. Anyway, artistically not a great page but it was one that came straight from the soul.
i don’t know why i have been so behind in my art journal. i’d like to blame it on circumstance beyond my control. but the fact of the matter is that i could easily make time for this if i needed to. the real reason, i think, is that i have been paralyzed. by many things. by:
—the amazing work i consistently see here—the complexity of emotion i try to pour onto my pages—the fear of not creating as my best self—the talented company this challenge keeps, many of which are my idols and mentors.—the size of my pages (11” x 17”), which though once i get going is GREAT, but starting seems such an enormous task—there are probably a plethora of other equally paralyzing factors, but i won’t bore you with any more…
so here {finally} is my entry about ‘circles’. i immediately gravitated towards emotion/mental health/cycles, and began documenting the huge shift in emotions i struggle with on a consistent basis. the fact that i cycle from depression to near-mania, and everything else in between. then the realization came that as unreliable as my emotions ARE, the one thing that IS reliable is their irregularity. hence, the title, “Reliable Irregularity [cycle]”.
Primarily composed of acrylics and oils, with pen and ink. [It’s interesting that i keep trying to incorporate a lot of color, but end up covering it up each time.] I’ll capture some of my journaling here for you.
“Now, now, my dear, all in due time.”
[inside head: stay in here]
“Because everything is alive and [organic], it grows.”
“And because it grows, it exists on a cycle ~ around&around.
i grow. i move. i am alive. i return. i learn.”
[outside of screaming head: out of my mind]
“We do not travel straight up and straight back down again.
growth=pain
cycles=reliability minus comfort
because what goes up must come down.”
thanks for checking it out. i am going to commit to recommit to my art journal!! because this really did feel great to create.
~tia
I had this week’s prompt kicking around in my head, and I came across a cool idol image in a magazine. I decided to use it as my one image for the page. I started w/ gesso on the page, then painted it with acrylics, then added another coat of gesso. I let it dry & then sanded it and glazed it a few times. I used gel medium to do an image-transfer of the idol image…then added some more glaze. I found the fortune-cookie insert on the floor in my stamp room. I liked the saying a lot, and just stuck it right onto the page. I thought about filling the empty space(s) with journaling, but decided against it. Thanks for looking!
I’m sludging big time so I’ve jumped ahead to do this weeks ( uploaded it in Mum’s name the first time). I sprayed the background with adirondack colour washes and spritzed with water then wrote the names of my family down. I stamped ‘1 family’ with chalk ink and added home slogans in dymo.
I’m sludging big time so I’ve jumped ahead to do this weeks.
I sprayed the background with adirondack colour washes and spritzed with water, wrote the names of my family members and stamped ‘1 family’ with chalk ink. Added a few home slogans.
I really liked this prompt. It was liberating to just have to think about one thing!!!!!
I’m way behind but I ain’t got sludge yet. My life is such that there is no point in making schedules to stick too because every day is unpredictable and likely to remain so ad infinitum. I love these classes and will enjoy them at my pace. To do otherwise would spoil my enjoyment. Thanks for this one Shimelle. Jumping ahead feels good as I tend to do things in order.
I kept this simple as per instructions from the Boss. Mixed garnet gel into buttercup acrylic paint which made a sandy textured surface (bad idea for writing on). Stamped anticipation with foam stamps dipped in adirondack colour wash. Stamped smaller anticipation with stencil stamps which didn’t work out on the gritty surface so restamped with brush letter stamps.
Journalling.
Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait.
WIKIPEDIAI am regularly in a state of anticipation since I started scrapbooking. Now every time a parcel of art supplies arrives I get really excited.
Waiting for class emails is another source of anticipation.
