It’s a lousy scan so thought I’d reproduce the words for you.
Yesterday a child came out to wonder. Caught a dragonfly inside a jar.
(In the circle)
And the seasons
They go round
And round. And
The painted ponies
Go up and down.
We’re captive on the
Carousel of Time.
The years spin by. Drag your feet to slow the circles down.
Jane Swanson
This week’s challenge has helped me realize that before I reflect on the present or the future I want to play in my past. This song “The Circle Game” by Joni Mitchell captures my thoughts of wanting to “Drag my feet and slow the circles down.” The years are spinnng by SO fast.
I tried to do the Drawing Technique in my Photoshop Program by using the Gaussian Blur. Then I lightly colored the image with prismacolor pencils.
The bottom border that features an embossed carousel train is from Club Scrap.
Thanks for looking,
Jane Swanson
eugh …. text lost now. I’m not very good at this :(
No shapes this time, but after I had created this page I noticed that HShimelle had talked about wheels and transport ….......... this page is all about Mabel, my 1960 Morris Traveller, the black hole into which I pour any free funds I have :)
I don’t believe it …. shapes again :) I’ll be doing dodecahedrons by week 20!! I loved this prompt, but then I am a dyed in the wool bookworm. I can hardly reach my desk for the books all over the floor and pouring off the shelves. My three were a children’s book, Clever Duck, which one of my daughters is reading; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, which I read like a novel; and Fragrant Harbour, the most wonderful story of Hong Kong (read it NOW!) If I had moved a micro degree to either side I would have picked up a whole different set of books …........ such is chance, isn’t this fun?!
Sorry I’m so far behind. This is my intro page. I finally finished it last night after much inner struggle!! Coloring outside of my “lines” is harder than I thought it would be. Thanks for the inspiration C, glad I’m not the only one! (and God bless Amos Lee. . .his music really got me into the groove!)
I hope that I can catch up by the end of the week. I’d like to be on track with next weeks message.
This is watercolor paints on canvas paper and my very first attempt at a photo transfer. I used the packing tape method and love how it ended up all wrinkled. You would almost think I did it on purpose! =O Thanks so much for looking.
Personally, I have never used red on my work, and I am pleased with the outcome of this page. The R is a piece of fibre and the k some ribbon. The background is just a colour wash of watercolour pencils and distress ink.
This weeks theme came easily to me as I have taken a few risks in the past and am about to embark on some life changing risks in the near future. My page is about those future ‘risks’ and the choice I am faced with.
The photo of my eyes looking left is where I am thinking about what to do.
The journalling around the word Risk reads: Take the risk and make a dream become a reality.
TFL
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The thing I never thought I would have in my house is an aquarium. I’ve never been big on fish or birds as pets, as they die so easily and you can’t hold them or anything. Now that my husband got them for our kids to enjoy I’ve gotten to liking them and find them calming.
Could someone explain to me how you use these two materials? I have used the gel medium for adhesive and I know I can coat my work with it. I am reading that some are using gesso on the page – it that to prep the paper or as an adhesive? What are the differences?
Juliann
Third of my risk pages,
page 2 is about the choices my husband and I are facing with a possible relocation. If we move I may have to give up my career, for a while and become a stay home mom, if we stay, my spouse may be unhappy, but I remain a in house lawyer for a company. This is page 3 which sort of addresses the issue of being a lawyer.
The next page, is done with a brayer and rainbow pallet inks and is the weekend spark page.
When I look around my house the one thing I would have never imagined in my house was a live in nanny. Living in Asia has given us the ability to have a nanny, and frankly she has been the blessing I could have never expected.
