Lots of layers. photocopies of our house plans, an image from a vintage drafting book, and paint washes. I used the peeling paper technique from Claudine Hellmuth’s book. I found a photo of a woman in an old Saturday Evening Post mag from 1958 and cut it out. I used her for a mask and also for a stencil, Fun stuff! Then, I added the actual mask, which has white paint all over it.
I put a flat marble on the face
adding today’s date was fun
This week’s entry was fun. Now that I’m getting my hands into the really collagey stuff, it’s just pouring out. Claudine Hullmuth’s book is giving me some great ammo, too!
At first I thought about my daily commute. To school, to work. Time alone to sing along to CDs. Then I thought about the feild trip option, riding the LIRR into Manhattan. Although there’s some pretty good people watching there, nothing beats the subway systems. It’s an honest glimpse into that society…No tourists, no wealthy people, just straight up realness. You see the coolest things on the underground. Yes, they’re filthy, and yes, homeless people and crackheads are in abundance. But there are also students, kids (little ones!), bohemians, stcokbrokers, you name it. This is reality. The heart of a city lies in it’s tube. Or Metro. Or Subway. Love that people watchin!!
I just joined the class, so I haven’t done the first two weeks entries yet, but I was really moved to make this weeks.
I recently took my kids to a rollerskating party and, after many years, got to put back on some skates. It brought back so many memories and feelings, so I wanted to document that. I used a grey background to symbolize the driveway that I used to skate on as a kid.
Thanks for looking.
I mulled over the idea of risk for almost a week and tried to figure out how I wanted to document it. Then on Sunday, I was flipping through the paper and saw this awesome sketch (it was actually for a Star Wars article), but it seemed to embody everything that risk is to me: dangerous, scary, forboding, dark. See the pattern, can you tell I am NOT a risk taker??? Anyway, I had to use the sketch and therefore incorporate it somehow. My journaling basically discusses the above thoughts on risk. While writing, I came to the conclusion or acceptance that it is okay to not be a risk taker, to be comfortable with who I am. Since my journal is focusing on me as an artist, I wrote how it’s okay to not be all eclectic and daring, that I don’t think you can force that. That instead, it’s just as much of a risk to be yourself. Anyway, I may still add another page, but I think I pretty much captured what I wanted to on just this one. :)
**Edit: to clarify, this is the actual sketch from the paper. I decopaged (sp?) it into my journal. Oh how I WISH I could draw/sketch like that!
I finally got around to taking pictures of my cover. I’m using this journal to help me find focus in my life. The past few weeks have been very enlightening to me about my life and I have realized I have no idea where it’s headed and that scares me. I’m hoping this journey will help me figure out what I want from life.
Finally, a somewhat delayed entry. This is based on a digital collage as a background – it took me ages to find and assemble the images I wanted, for the phrase “Stripped Bare”. I’ve also included a photo of my own head, but with skull super-imposed. I apologise if some of these images aren’t to everyone’s liking – but the theme inspired me.
The digital collage is based on a background paper in the Paint it Your Way collection by Kim Crothers of CreativeSnaps. She was giving it away as a freebie for a brief spell, and running a competition on how we might paint it. The original is purely black and white. I added various tones of orange, of course. Orange for me signafies risk.
The two digital collages were then printed onto paper, and glued into the journal itself. I used an antique gold pen to journal along the black circles on the background, and gold acrylic paint to paint out the white paper edges, and between the spiral binding.
Finally, the shipping tag was simply used for extra journaling, using stamps, paint and ink. It simply sits, tied into the central spiral bindings – as an insert on the double pages.
this entry was a little harder for me to do….I just wanted to write about my journey from miscarriage to another baby. I didn’t plan out my journalling I just wrote it. It isn’t as soul searching as it could be, but it was what I could do. I did a version of the overdrawing with glassine. Also I used art acrylics to paint the underlayer and sharpie for the writing. I stapled all of the glassine and hearts down….and you can lift the glassine and see the journalling under it. I’m not sure its done, but it’s what I have right now.
Here is my weekend SPARK. I thought I could hold off including something Harry Potterish in my journal, at least for a little while, but this was just perfect for the topic. I’m sort of geeky.
This is just some stamps (Ma Vinci’s Reliquary, Leave Memories, and EK Success), StazOn ink, acrylic paint, and Sharpie markers.
I’m finally doing this. The very reasons I want to do this (to gain confidence, try something new) are the same reasons I am having such a hard time taking the plunge. I have never really tried anything “artistic” besides scrapbooking, but I have always wanted to. Still not brave enough to use a picture of myself – maybe that will come in time. I used chalk on this, a dictionary definition (bloom), some Coldplay lyrics. 39 is my age, and it is definately on my mind. Thanks for looking.
