The first journal page of the year and this is how I feel, free-falling. I don’t know where I’ll land but it’s a wild ride.
Free Falling
This Year
Summing up the year and ending the 2019 art journal
Best Moments
Remembering the best and brightest moments of 2019
Dragonfly Cards
This was part of a series of cards that I packaged up as holiday gifts in 2019.
See the Stars
Layer 1 Ink sprays and water. This theme makes me feel blessed because I realized how very many points of light there are in my life.
Layer 2 channelling Van Gogh a bit, putting some dots on the background reminiscent of Starry Night with my posca pens.
Layer 3 It is easier to see the light when you aren’t alone. I was a bit terrified free-handing my figures in because the surface wasn’t friendly to pencil sketching so I just took a deep breath as I went in with a big brush Pitt pen without a safety net. I wanted my figures to not be clearly any gender so you can decide whether they are a couple, friends, siblings. I stenciled some words on and right now I am happy to see them fading into the background. Tomorrow I might choose to bring some forward or push them back. The first one I chose was “serendipity” because when I’m in a dark place I always remind myself of all the random things that have served to improve my life and the world in general. I know that odds are good that something like that will happen soon
Layer 4. A bit of final fiddling around. I did a little stamping. I embossed some lettering with clear “holographic” embossing powder. I created a rather blingy tab from some sequin ribbon and a stick on ornament pilfered from the grand-kids craft stash. I covered the attachment of the tab with a sewn on ribbon and ran a few lines of stitching up and down on my treadle machine.
Gratitude
This was a hard theme for me because I feel a need to be assertive and stand on my own two feet. I realized that blessings flowed to me whether I asked for them or not, they fell like leaves from a tree and my gratitude was part of a life circle, a spiral of good will. Ink, embossing, stamping, pearlescent acrylic paint.
Stages:
Bubble You
The prompt this week was to bubble away troubles so I packed up annoying people in bubbles and floated them away.
Twisting the flow
The prompt this week was about bending creative flow.
Flow re-start
In the “A Layer A Day” Art journaling group in fall 2019 we were talking all about flow states and this week the prompt was what we did when the flow wasn’t happening. I journaled about dipping into the hive mind. I was thinking about Pinterest and YouTube but also the inspiration from the work of other “butterflies”.
When you’re skating on thin ice
Line from a song “When you’re skatin’ on thin ice, then you might as well dance”. What we do when inspiration fails. Might as well play and have fun. What have you got to lose?