Yes, that’s right. I will spoil you this week.
(Or ‘overload’ you, if you prefer to call it that 😉 )
As you noticed, this is a MONDAY post.
And there will be a WEDNESDAY post and
a FRIDAY- (OR-SATURDAY) post as well!
Why is that, you say?
Well, for one: I was very productive last weekend and
two: there is some work that can’t be showed before a certain date.
I won’t write a long post today, ’cause we have trouble with
the Internet access lately.
My ‘private expert’ spend last weekend figuring out what was wrong,
experimenting and re-setting (and swearing… that too!)
He thinks there’s something wrong with the modem, and he hopes to
get it fixed real soon. In the meantime, I create.
I can’t visit all your blogs as I used too, and I’m sorry that you didn’t
get much comments from me in the past days…
I’m online now, and I just hope this thing let me publish this blogpost!
So lets not make him work too hard (yes, ‘him’. Computers are male!
Rational – thinking in ‘one’s and zero’s’ *teehee*)
Here’s what I have to show:
(you can click on the images to enlarge for a better view)
The Chronicles of Marit
Week 8
Last week was filled with art journals, paint, crayons and embossing powder
(once I figured out how Tim Holtz’ “Distress embossing powder” worked,
I became hooked! I want more cans/colours now!)
The small strips with beautiful collages on the right are little business cards
that came with the goodies that Terri send me.
Here’s a page that I still don’t know what to think of it.
Is it good? Is it bad? Is it finished?
I throw it online here anyway…
Journaling:
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel
of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling ~ Madeleine L’Engle ~
I worked in my big art journal this weekend, you know – the 9.8 x 13.7 inch
journal my son gave to me. I’m in love with the structure of the paper, look
at how it shows when I use my watercolour pastels on it!!! Even the layer
of gesso won’t take away the structure. No doubt, you will see more ‘big pages’
coming this week – I just can’t take my hands off of this journal!
The image is cut out of a ‘National Geographic’ – as are the alpha’s.
I have a big pile of old NG’s, a treasure I got from my aunt.
Every art journal artist should have a stack of magazines (and an aunt!)
like this!
In the time I wrote this post, I had to stop five times because there was
no Internet access… I’m going to hit the publish button and get off of here…
there’s a big table downstairs waiting for me to work on!
I am going to roll my little drawer next to it, and hit the journaling road!
See you on Wednesday!
Oooh, I like the black/white page! And for the last one: amen to that! See you on Wednesday ;-).
Hope the computer gets fixed soon for you! I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee these pages!! That thin women one has me giggling!! Just amazing as always Marit! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
I love being spoiled 😉
De werkjes zijn weer zo uniek Marit!
Zoveel te zien en te lezen.
Tot woensdag 🙂
Wat fijn zeg, om te zien dat jij lekker produktief bent…Hihi, geen internet heeft echt zijn voordelen…Ik vind jouw “Angels” page hartstikke mooi zoals ‘ie is, maar ik ben ook eerder voor het eenvoudige!
Hele lieve groetjes en hopelijk weer snel een goede internetverbinding – Irma
Grappig dat je zo snel went aan een bepaalde regelmaat. Toen ik net zag dat je een nieuwe post geplaatst had, dacht ik meteen: hè, het is toch geen dinsdag??? Maar je gaat ons deze week verwennen met 3 posts!!!! Yippie!!
Wat ziet het er allemaal weer prachtig uit! Ik vind die zwart/wit pagina juist mooi! Toen ik hem vergrootte, zag ik pas dat het een bestaande foto was! Echt mooi, vooral hoe je je journaling verwerkt hebt!!
Verheug me al op woensdag! Nou maar hopen dat internet je niet helemaal in de steek laat…
XXXJenneke
Loved your mixed media layouts! They are incredible!
xoxo
Gorgeous work! I also saw your awesome page from AYITLOAAJ, I have to make another gel medium transfer, like you showed me!!
have fun!
xxD
Great work! Thin women are overrated. LOL
fantastic! I can feel “answer” pages coming on. 🙂
immensly inspiring stuff here!
and thank you so much for the artistic temperament quote – I’ve been looking for words to illustrate my “Black Swan” collage. how did you know? 😉
What beautiful pages!
Wow, I do feel spoiled ! Love the pages – love the silouette piece and that great arghhh face ! And I love the mystery of the black and grey piece. You are on a roll with those big pages too…fun size !
Keep it coming, Marit – you always make me want to run to my journal when I see you great pages !
Have a great week and I will prayer to the God of the Internet for you !
It must a real visual feast to go through any art journal of yours Marit. Your pages always seem “alive” to me…so full of energy!
Have a great week my friend!
Happy March Dear one ~ I am always happy to come for a visit…you ARE so creative and inspiring.
I am so happy to see you and druga szesnascie connecting…as I just said on her blog…two beautiful creative souls
sorry you’ve had issues with the computer…wonderful when they are working…not so much when things aren’t right
oxoxoxo
I love your art journaling pages….especially the black and white one! Isn’t it funny that the ones we are most unsure of are the ones most loved by others!
Hope you get your internet access fixed – I saw one of your pages over on Julie Balzer’s blog – fantastic concept of doing the journaling in the “buildings?” – at least that’s the way I see it – an angel removed but still interacting with the metropolis. Have a great week!
I love the dark angel quote so much! You are always completely spot on when it comes to quotes and as for thin women… ain’t that the truth! Embrace Imperfection, I say!
Missing your sweet comments and I do hope himself can get that bugger of a modem sorted (I swear too!)…
Do pop over to my blog though, as I am giving away stuff to celebrate my birthday! xoxo
chuckling at the last one, so true!
love the colours that you’ve used and the effect.
i’ve never tried embossing powder, sounds fun. i wonder if that’s what’s creating the effect i like there.
Kom ik hier om te kijken wat je gister gepost hebt… staat al dit moois al vanaf maandag online!!
Fijn hé, een stapel oude National Geografics!! Zoveel mooie foto’s die altijd wel een keer van pas komen!! En dat “gekke” nieuwe AAARGH stempel… too funny!!
Hopelijk gaat het beter met je PC want ik kom graag vanmiddag nog even terug om je woensdagpost te bekijken…!
Ha Marit, dat ziet er weer goed uit allemaal. Wat een verschillende pagina`s heb je gemaakt…allemaal weer even gaaf 🙂
Beautiful beautiful work! The woman (you?) on your Marit’s chronicles page is so joyful-looking! I love how all three pages have an emotion all their own!
Je bent lekker bezig geweest zeg! Weer veel te zien en allemaal even mooi. Ik ben weg van je Tim Holtz tag met de aaargh stempel.