Jeudi Journal - Idiot

Rosie was a sweet and somewhat pretty young girl but she had an unnatural desire to always wear huge roses, as befits her name, in her hair.  You, the dear reader of this journal page would be forgiven if you thought the words "I'm sorry I called you an idiot.  I thought you knew" referred to Rosie in some way when in fact they refer to the two little birds who had nested amongst crown of roses she was wearing today.

"Caro, 'the canarblary bird' was a very unusual bird indeed.  She loved to flit about and find the most unusual places to rest, or even, sometimes, to nest.  In fact she had just flown all the way across the water from Germany, resting on a ferry boat whenever she could, where she had been spending the day in Balconia by the Rhine visiting her favourite hooman friend and chatting about different coffees of`all things.  She had rested once she returned to England, having a few days in the sunny south before heading up north to meet up with her family and friends.

It was whilst she was flitting about that she saw this young girl sporting a crown of roses in her hair.  Caro thought that would be the ideal place to settle for a while and so she perched high on the young girl's head, being ever so careful not to disturb the petals of the beautiful flowers.  Caro was extremely light and so the young girl, who we know to be Rosie, was not aware of the fact that a bird had nestled on her head.

Caro was extremely happy sitting there, the scent of the roses and the delightful shampoo Rosie used wafted up to her nostrils and sent her into a kind of dreamy haze.  Imagine what a shock she got when the 'nest' she had made for herself began to rock slightly.  Opening her eyes Caro saw her cousin, Sully 'the spotoobler bird', perching on one of the roses looking at her.  

"I thought it was you, only an idiot like you would perch on someone's head" said Sully as he fluffed up his feathers and twitched his tail.  "Didn't know you were back in the country" he continued.

"Who are you calling an idiot?" asked Caro, "It takes one to know one.  Besides which I was always way above you in all the classes we took at school.  I seem to remember I was the brainy one and you were the one always in trouble.  I got my wings long before you did."

A heated clucking ensued and the two of them got so twitchy that Rosie shook her head from side to side and up and down and the two of them had to fly away.  As they did so Sully shouted "I'm sorry I called you an idiot.  I thought you knew."

Caro decided not to reply, she knew what an idiot he had been at school, seemed as if he had never changed.

I pondered, after writing this, whether to turn it into a dream but thought a bit of nonsense might appeal to one or two readers and so I left my journal story as it is.  Hope it makes you smile.

To begin with I did a bit of reverse stencilling with Twisted Citron Distress Ink and my Aall & Create Stencil.  Whilst it was drying I coloured my images with my Promarkers and then decided to make a brick wall for Rosie to stand on.  

Out came the Heavy Gesso and another Aall & Create stencil, which, when dry, was brushed over with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

So that is me for this week, joining in with Matilde at Art Journal Journey and her challenge which is 'Birds'.