I like this “writing a blog post on Friday” ritual (#12 already!) in which I
show you some random art, share my thoughts, show you things I did the
days before or just ramble a bit before the weekend starts.
Today it’s all about my own work.
Silence
Last week, the new prompt for A Year in the Life of an Art Journal came up.
The word is “Silence” and the extra technique to try is using inchies.
(“An Inchie is a 1″ square of art. Inchies are the eeny teeny evolution of the
popular artist trading card revolution.”)
I didn’t use the inchies in the traditional way though – making every little
inchie a small piece of art – but I cut a photo into 1×1 inch squares…
As I didn’t had a clue how to integrate the thread that was on this page
(from sewing on the former page last time) I glued my photo right over it
and by doing that I got rid of this problem.
I painted the squares at the top (the photo is a rectangle) with water colour
paint. The title is drawn with a silver gel pen.
I could tell you an awful lot about this word.
How I feel about it.
How I need silence in my life.
How I love to be alone in silence.
I don’t need people, music or noise around me all the time.
Me, myself and my thoughts are good friends since I was little and unlike
some other people I love to be alone.
My plan was to write this all on the page too, but before I could do that the
page talked to me saying: “Hey, you’re done! I’m finished! I don’t need more
words written all over me when you said it with this image already.”
The page had a point there.
I agreed with it.
And so it be.
Dad & me
The next layout is made for the prompt over at T.A.A.F.O.M.F.T. to scrap
about your favourite friend(s). The design team at t.a.a.f…. (couldn’t you
find a shorter name Julie?!) scrapped about their husbands, their friends
or their kids and I could have done that too but for me my very, very
VERY favourite friends are my parents!
And because I’m “daddy’s girl” I scrapped about him and me.
I had some difficulties working on a 12×12 piece again (it’s been a long time
since I did that!) and the first try failed miserably! The only part I liked was
the stamped alpha’s, so I tore that out and glued it onto this new (Prima
Marketing) paper. I stamped with bubble wrap plastic and several other
stamps (the date and quote). Some tags from my stash and a lot of doodling
completed this page.
(This layout took me quite some time to “get the hang of it” but I’m
beginning to come back in the flow of making 12×12 layouts again and
I’m working on a fun layout for the ScrapMojo challenge right now.
It’s going to be a page that will make you laugh and I will show it to you
after the weekend.)
Zentangling
I don’t have my own studio or scrap room to work in – I work in the living
room on our big dining table – and in the evening I store all my stuff upstairs.
This little book stays in the living room though, and it’s easy to grab my
marker and start zentangling. Because it’s all black, the yellow lamp lights
in the evening don’t bother me either – no “strange” colours to surprise me
in the morning – and I did quite some zentangling again last week!
The word “Zentangle” is in between the lines… it was “white” at first but I
didn’t like that much, so I filled it with lines too.
This page looks like a landscape and makes me think of Alice in Wonderland.
Maybe because the top “flowers” look like mushrooms?
Should I try a caterpillar next time or even zentangle an “Alice book”?
This is all I have to show you right now but if you go here you can drool some
more over the pages my students made in the workshop “Let it Loose”.
You won’t believe your own eyes when you look at the gorgeous art they all
come up with, it just keeps getting better every week!
If you want to “let it loose” too, the workshop will start again in May.
Another workshop, called “A Creative Art Journey” will also start then
and this workshop combines art history with art journaling.
It’s gonna be educational AND fun!!!
You can find all the information on my site.
It’s been a while since I visited my online friends and I will try to drop by all
of your blogs this weekend to leave you some love, so see you soon!
Have a nice weekend!
Je t’embrasse!