When you saw my former post, you could have seen and read why my desk was filled with mail art from all over the world. My desk does not look like that today though – the surface is clean and ready for me to paint, draw, collage and journal again – and that is the plan for today and the weekend!
But there’s no start until I publish my weekly haiku – I just cannot start a Friday without it.
Haiku My Heart Friday
| Mijn zomer met George
Klein verhaal over liefde Op Scheveningen |
My Summer With George
Little Story About Love In Scheveningen |
This haiku was found/written for Haiku my Heart Friday, and if you want to see more photos and read more haiku, I recommend you hop on over to Rebecca’s blog Recuerda Mi Corazon to find the list of participants.
By the way: you are very welcome to join the ‘Haiku my Heart’ group if you like. We’re all very encouraging and friendly and we will welcome you as a friend, promise!
Oh, and if you don’t know what haiku is exactly you might want to read this post in which I explain about the ‘rules’ of writing haiku. It’s easy and once you start with it you might find yourself counting syllables all the time 🙂
While flipping through magazines searching for images to collage last week, my eyes were drawn to all kinds of words and sentences and so I created an art journal page with a found poem. I guess I was in the ‘poetry-mood’…
This spread is made in my ‘Weird Art Journal’ – with a title like that it fits, doesn’t it?
Hallucinations
This spread has a lot of layers as it lay on my desk for days and I kept on adding paint and ink… You can see for instance (hardly visible) a chevron image, made with a template, in the lower part of the spread. The green circles/balls were stamped with bubble wrap (big bubbles indeed!) I used parts of an image of “ocean flowers” (how are those named? Flowers that grow under water?) and stamped with a hand carved spiral stamp. I doodled for a finishing touch.
Last but not least, I want to point out the ‘public gallery‘ on my website. “Mixed Emotions”, the online art journal workshop that Michelle LaPoint-Rydell and I taught in the last six weeks, has come to an end and I published art work from the participants (with their permission of course) in the gallery. It was such an enthusiastic and talented group and everyone had a blast! Thank you ladies for all the fun, encouraging each other, the inspiration you brought and your sweet comments!
.. and now my clean desk is waiting for me – it won’t be clean for long ’cause I have all kinds of ideas and projects going on which I am enthusiastic about and eager to start working on.
Do you have fun plans for the weekend?
Whatever you’re going to do: enjoy!
Loving your page!!! Those colors are fab!!
Always love your book haikus !
I hope the muses keep you great company as you play the weekend away !
Happy Creating, Beautiful One !
I love the colours and doodling you’ve used and done – fabulous!
dear marit,
i love that friday is not complete for you without a haiku! thank you for the lovely invitation and encouragement to all your readers to join us for our weekly love affair with words. that was just so thoughtful of you, i could not resist acknowledging you and linking back to your blog home.
sharing the love!
A clever haiku!
I hope “George” is a nice person
and lasts for more than one season.
I enjoyed my visit to your gallery:)
♥♥
An intriguing haiku from the titles today. A sequel coming? 🙂
All very creative ~ you are so talented ~ enjoy ^_^
I agree with you and fridays!!!
Enjoy your weekend! I am planning on painting!
I love how you ‘find’ words and incorporate them in interesting ways into your art. Have a wonderful weekend creating !
Beauty i n this Booku.
Ah love coming here on Fridays…great haiku (are the books any good?) LOVE your hallucination creation page. 🙂
As a gal who eeks out 10-15 minutes to read before bed most nights, I envy those who make it a huge of their lives! Love your journal pages…beautiful and poignant!
Marvelous words and am loving your white dots and swirls like the chaos swirling in my head sometimes….creativity is not always smooth. xox
There sounds a lot of fun and adventure in “My Summer with George.” Wonderful haiku.
What a lovely Haiku, and page. I really enjoy it when I add to a page over days, it gives such depth and yours is full of it. Your found poem is wonderful, and full of magic!
What a wonderful way to spend winter hey, ‘summer
love with George’. x
The book haiku is so natural this week. I love it.
Hallucinations. For some reason, I immediately thought of Earnest Hemingway when he lived and was writing in Cuba, his brain twisted with alcohol. I see him “being” where and what he wrote. Sort of an hallucination.
Your layering techniques are amazing. Took me a while, but I found the chevron, on its side. Very cool.
Peace
“What will you do for haiku when you run out of book covers?” she asked mischievously.
Swallows Haiku
LOL I DO find myself counting syllables…frequently. It sort of grows on one! 🙂
Yet another tiny and complete little story for us to enjoy and wonder upon.
I love, love, LOVE your art journal. Mayhaps if I’d title an art journal weird, I might be brave enough to give it a try.
what creativity here! i am delighted.
Wat een mooie Haiku weer, echt leuk zo met die boeken. Je hebt er geloof ik veel he?
Ook weer een gave art journal page!
Fijne week, groetjes Viv