So I have tried the Art Journaling where words are written entirely over the background of my pages. It’s just not me. My preference is to use imagery symbolicly and infer meaning through the use of my materials. What the heck am I talking about? In Rain Fall, the ledger paper is a cool paper background, but ledger paper is also used for accountability; we are accountable for our actions. The white notepaper elements with the hand drawn doodles is cut from a letter written to me from my mother, kept from my collage days. That alone is fraught with meaning and symbolism. Home Sweet Home is what we all fantasize about having. But reality is the Rain is Always on the Horizon. The tissue paper with the vertical lines implies the bars of a prison, the ones that kept me in my “Sweet Home” of youth, that prevented my escape from the storms that gathered there.
Although all the elements ended up being too close in color range, the colors still make me happy. Contrast will have to come naturally in a different page, cuz it didn’t happen on this one. Used nupastels, gesso, copic markers, charcoal pencil, signo uni-ball white gel pen, rotring ink pen, erengi oil pastels (absolutely LOVE these).
BTW, the house and clouds are coming up in Feb.’s A2A kit and the numbered background will show up soon in a collab I’m doing with Tangie.
Fall Guy was a page that I did during Anahata’s class at JournalFest. I loved Anahata’s class. It was all about intuitive selective process. Don’t think, just let your mind wander and layer and paint without intention. Anyway, love how Fall Guy evolved. The convict is a stencil I hand cut using an antique photo of a prisoner’s mug shot. I spray painted with flat black on regular old sketch paper then cut him out. The leaf is from WA where I picked it up while walking around. Used acrylics, golden gel medium, neo colors II, my rotring ink pen.
