This is the lovely background we were given.
I started a new moleskin journal about a week ago. I thought I would share some of my pages. I always think the first pristine page is the hardest. This time I took a piece of scrap paper I have been using and to blot and mask some other things. I glued that in and just put the word Begin as a starting point. Sometimes that is all you have to do - take the first step.
The young girl and the script are from Paperbag Studios. The other image is an old one from Lost Aussie. I have been playing around with stamping my stamps and then scanning them into my computer and then printing them out. I have gotten some interesting results. This page is exactly that.
I was waiting in line at the store the other day. It was a madhouse. There were two, late twenty early thirty looking, girls in line in front of me. I was reading one of the celeb magazine's while they whispered and chatted. All of a sudden one girl looked at the other and said she could feel her eggs ripening. I decided to do a journal page using that quote.
My mantra!
I incorporated a vintage photo with another photograph that I took to do this spread. It seemed such a good fit. The new with the old.
When I saw this vintage photo of the woman with the whip I knew she was getting control of her life. Some women use their looks and wiles, some their brains, others just have to pull out the whip.
Each morning I try to start the day off with a little walk on the beach. Sundays and Mondays are usually the best. The beach is usually deserted. Just me, the sea gulls, the wind and the surf.
Although it was warm, the temperature is affected by the wind. This guy looked pretty cold or maybe just tired. I think they sleep and rest in this position. The gulls will follow you on your walk. I think they dream that you are going to feed them. They ask you not to here, so I don't. I do enjoy their company though.
This island is made up of "hash" which is broken down bits of shell and rock. You can really see some of the small bits of shell in this picture. I loved this worn and full of texture shell. Sometimes they are more beautiful than the "perfect" ones. Sort of like people. The more they have seen, done and been through the more interesting they are.
This is the channel that leads from the ocean to the inner coastal waterway. When the waves and wind are brisk it stuns the fish and the birds go on a feeding frenzy. Today it is this migrating group of brown pelicans. There were hundreds of them. I love to collect their feathers. They make beautiful bouquets and quivers to write with.
After my walk I had a ton of errands to run. As I finished my last one and headed for home I turned to see this full rainbow. I immediately pulled into the first parking lot and started snapping pictures. it has been quite a while since I have seen such a beautiful sight. I liked the irony of this one. The name of the shop below the rainbow is Thrill of the Hunt. That about says it all.
I love this one. It was the first one I bought. The mariners compass just did me in.
Isn't the pink with the cherubs great?
Wow! This impressed me with such inferior instruments they could figure this all out. Math really helps.
My favorite globes!
Yum Pumpkin Pie!
They are so sweet.
I love mince pie.
This is a little Zetti Thanksgiving Greeting!
A couple of surfers were making this little shrine when I got to the beach. There were probably twenty or so surfers out in the ocean. After about 50 yards they were all most impossible to see.
Wave action at the pier. It is low tide yet the waves a starting to lick the top of the underside of the pier. By the time I left an hour later the waves were crashing the length of the pier. Note the lights on at the pier.
This is another journal page. It started out as just a purple page with a few stencils of a butterfly. I had all this left over paper from another project so I added it using it to go across the middle of the page. I then sprayed this with a few different colors of inks. Wiped, dried, and sprayed some more. I then added a wash of white paint and sprayed and wiped again. Added my images. The hearts are done with oil pastels. The butterflies disappeared, but isn't that the way it is sometimes?
This page is the end of my paint palette. I keep a piece of computer paper on my art table and routinely add left over paint and try techniques on it. When it is full I go to photo shop and make a translucent page and add stamps and words, numbers, etc. I then print this on to my painted computer paper. I tear this paper up and use it in collages or as I did here as a journal page. My printer ink and the different types of paint interact together sometimes in really strange yet beautiful ways.
Here is a blank journal page. I have prepped it with acrylic paint, inks, and acrylic paint with chalk added. I like to do several of this type of page and just have it waiting.
I had some time last night to work on some more of Sarah Whitmire's prompts in the Soul Journaling group. Here we were to write adjectives, paint, splatter,wash, use tape, use a pencil, and stencil a figure, write a grocery list, etc. I really like how this page turned out. It was fun!
This prompt was called collage potpourri. We were to write angrily the alphabet, paint, use a tool or something unusual as a stamp, list what we did today, stencil a profile and use something metal of the page. The page pretty much speaks for itself. The metal hearts came off of a candle. The candle was wrapped in metal tape with the hearts embossed on it. When I finished burning the candle I kept the tape knowing I would find another use for them.
Here is the home journal page prompt. We were to use a paper bag to make a house with a pocket. Do the neighborhood, and add the people, pets, etc. that live at you house. I made a house, and some other houses using paper bags and watercolors. The figures are from Artchix. I just love these paper dolls. I decided I would use one as me and the rest are arty friends coming to visit for the weekend to do art. "Last Boy Home" was not up for his picture being used in any way shape or form...
One of the girls who helped his wife.
Supposedly the fact he was able to capture each one of these twins personalities really gave him the "in" for society portraits. Their father was so excited he told everyone about the painting.
This is called leisure. I love the gold fish in the bowl in this painting.
Isn't she a darling? I love the yellow rose.
She is so beautiful with her red dress and turquoise necklace. She just looks like fall to me. Note the leather gloves on her hands.
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