I skipped Shimelle’s technique suggestion this week as I’m still away from home and my supplies are limited (although I may try it later.) For the same reason, I did some image layering in Photoshop.
My breaktime lately is when I have my iPod on (usually during creative time.) Thanks for looking.
Here’s my fellowship entry. I printed photos of each person on a transparency then layered over a piece of patterned paper that ‘felt’ like them. Added some paint, stickers and journaling and viola! I’ve always loved this quote from Richard Bach and it seemed to work perfectly for this. TFL!
Page 1
Pate 2
This entry was going to be a simple ‘having a break’ one… but it had other ideas… and so it grew. I like when a page sneaks in like that.
There’s a bolt of lightning with ‘timing is everything’, a reflection with ‘a’, and skeletal trees to remind me of cyclical rhythm. Simple, really. : ) Thank You. xxx
Lots of self-examination lately. Trying to redefine my life’s direction and purpose. Hence, breaking free from the old.
The background are acrlics mixed with glaze. The butterfly is a Stampin’ Up stamp that i used on an old page of a dictionary, then cut it out.
TFL!
-Rachelle
Naturally I was lead to do a page about my husband and I. I’ve been wanting to use this image of the 2 pears for a while now, and as soon as I saw the prompt I knew I had to use it!
The colors on the scan are way brighter than they appear in person. I journaled around the edges, just plain stream of consciousness writing on being a “pair”. Very fun and quick.
This is another page with the attitude girls. I’m having too much fun drawing them. The writing says, “On a soul searching trip through the desert, the attitude girls realized that all they ever wanted to do was bake pies; however, all their advanced degrees combined had done nothing to prepare them for this. The End..or is it?”
This is straight and to the point. I didn’t think I was ever going to get it done… I wanted to keep it simple but with all the kids home for summer, I don’t seem to be getting much accomplished. I took my pencil box outside and worked on this while my youngest played.
I do like how it turned out. I just wish I would remember to take the pictures in better light!
Thanks for looking!
The word BREAK reminded me of holidays – that led to the ocean and trips to the beach – waves breaking – the excitement and fun we have at the beach – so lucky to live so close. I tried the chalk drawing which included 3 of my children and put a “real” photo of the 4th at the top trying to blend it into the drawing – some beach “stuff”, stamps down one side – a sun and shells for the sun’s rays.
I’m still unable to post (security issues from the home computer) but I want to stay connected. I was a little behind on viewing everybody’s posts as I’ve been out of town and I can only get to the written down site from work and we’ve been really busy. But I think I have finally seen all the cool things you’re all doing. I am really learning a lot about process and technique from your psots so even though I’m not able to share my own work I’m still very actively enjoying y’all’s. I was surprised at the grief that I am dealing with after the alliance week. I journaled about all the alliances I have had throughout my life with fabulous, creative, strong women. It ended up bringing up a lot of feelings I’ve been surpressing about loosing important friendships (to moving, the ebb and flow or life, major life changes, etc). So that is what I’ve been up to this week…caring for myself and letting myself mourn. I looking forward to setting aside some time this weekend to work on my break page. The word to me means breaking free from everything (social expectations, false beliefs, fear, etc.) that keeps my from being my fullest and most fabulous self. Just wanted you to know I’m still here with all of you…not in posts but in spirit. I will continue to comment on your posts so that I can be a part of the group. Can’t wait to come back Monday and see what y’all been up to all weekend.
Learning and growing
Michelle
I wanted to have a go at the grids which seem to be a trend in the art journaling world of late. This is all hand-drawn using marker pens only (and I did it at work again – somehow my boss didn’t believe me and thought the thing on my desk was a photocopy or something) – I played around with colouring on a copy of this drawing, but my watercolouring is too bright, and I prefer the simple black and white nature of this one.
My apologies for the scan – it’s very poor – I really must get around to cleaning the scanner window. None of the grey that you see actually exists in real life – however the scanning does produce some interesting shadows, lol.
My very obvious interpretation of the word is towards taking a break – either from work, or the world in total. As I’ve been incredibly busy at work this last week, I find myself using toilet breaks and coffee runs as the smallest piece of a sanity-break I can take. And my mind is only pushing on, with the promise of a lovely holiday in a couple of week’s time – which we booked last weekend. Break to me, is the only way to keep going or else you may find me a bit, well – broken!
