early January art journal
Some pages from my art journal…
olw: 2013 - “enjoy”
I got a set of markers for Christmas and I was testing them out and checking out the colors so I decided to do it in my art journal. And then I journaled around them- my 2013 “one little word” and then I printed out my journaling to include on the page.
odds and ends
Just some odds and ends from the days in between Christmas and New Year and a whole lot of journaling about how I was feeling…
Those flowers are actually true-to-color. Gracie spotted them at the grocery store and got them for me as a surprise on the day after Christmas.
And the lanterns are hanging in my art studio- Tom hung them up for me a few days after Christmas.
night lights & dinner / talking stadium
back of the insert card…
On December 30th, we went to the “Night Lights” exhibit at our local botanical garden. It was beautiful.
We went to dinner after and my mom met someone she knew and started talking to her, and after she was done, Gracie dryly told her “You should get a job at the Talking Stadium.” What she meant was the “talking station”, meaning one of those cable news channels where all people do is talk, but for some reason she said “stadium” and we all cracked up, especially my dad (who is the direct opposite of my mom- VERY quiet!)
I just made a very simple spread with the photos and some journaling. I decided that I still really want to document our life, but I wanted to do it a little more simply than I have been doing. I was spending so much time on “documenting” pages that I wasn’t using my journal for anything but scrapbooking. I wanted to simplify the photo-heavy pages so that I could have time (and creative energy!) left for other kinds of creativity.
So I got a Martha Stewart photo corner punch and am going to try to use that with photo-heavy pages instead of trying to come up with a zillion different border ideas that I eventually pull off the page because I wind up not liking them.
winter awakenings/courage
… And since i didn’t spend hours agonizing over the “Night Lights” pages, I had time to play a little and this came out of it. A few snippets from magazines and catalogs, some patterned paper and tape, some Distress stains, some gel medium and then paper torn off… I don’t know. I was a little anxious when I created the page because it definitely was NOT coming together but then when I started *deconstructing* it and letting it just happen, I felt really fulfilled by the process.
All in all, it was a fun experience so I want to try and do more of that - just take images and paint and glue and quotes and see what happens with no attachment to the outcome.
courage
winter awakenings
the two magazine snippets read:
“How do we begin to come into ourselves fully, in all our imperfect glory? By letting go of who we thought we had to be, to make way for who we night become.”
and
“Sometimes we just have to go with the flow, get out of our own way, and heed the well-intentioned whispers of our stalwart hearts.”
anger is a gift
Last night I did it again- I just took some images and quotes and scraps of paper and some gift tags I had left over from the holidays and put them down. I had a specific experience/feeling (which seems negative but was actually positive- I’ll write more about it Monday…) that inspired the selection of the quotes but the rest just happened.
Thanks, as always, for looking. I’m also over at Sprout today with my gardening resolutions and plans for 2013. I’m headed out to do some gardening now…
Have a LOVELY weekend. Happy New Year!