Playing with charcoal & faces

What better way to  play/experiment than in your journal?  So, I thought I would show you how I have been playing with faces.

I prefer the simplicity of the top one 'Candy Girl' to the intensity of the bottom two. But the background on the 2nd is just from excess inks from my stencils then gessoed over, how cool is that? Dxx

Special Moments

I have scanned this page not sure I like it scanned as the colour doesn't seem right but I thought I would try if for this post. I am entering this almost too late in to the lovely monthly challenge that is Art Journal Journey which for the rest of this month is about special moments.

I keep thinking of the sun, which is still yet to arrive. Snow we have in March yes and April is all about rain but I need my sun & blooms. So I made my very own :) I painted, inked and stamped & drew my own garden with lots of wild flowers and warm sky's so it would cheer me up. Lots of you have played along on this challenge I hope you can stop by for my Journal Challenge on the 1st of each month. Dxx

We can never break the chain.....

Cracking tune this, and the guitar solo from this very famous track is used as the theme tune for a sport every time it's on BBC it's a Motor Sport...... yep Formula 1.  This was so much fun I really enjoyed doing this. We (hubby & I) were out in the car listening to Radio 2 and this song came on. Michael and I love the album this is from. Can you guess? Yep 'Rumours' But the song is 'The Chain - Fleetwood Mac' So many good songs on this record (CD) although Michael still has the vinyl version ;)

I painted the back ground put some stamps on there to give depth, then I drew the chain. I was really quite pleased with how this page turned out. I am enjoying doing this. Using songs as journal inspiration. It's not always easy as some songs have a lot of personal meaning (we all have them or from a part in our lives, school 1st loves etc. lol) and I want to stay clear of anything too deep. Just keep it to things so you maybe able to guess the song title from the page.

I have already finished my next page so you will have to come back to see that and I am starting a couple of free courses both of which are on my side bar. Strathmore are doing another THREE FREE workshops various and the ChakrArt journal workshop both start in March, so if you want to learn something new and mix it with art why not have a look in my side bar. Love Dawn xx

Birds

I got carried away journaling so I thought I would save this for a post today. Lots of book pages (P&P again love this book) Stuck to the pages, gessoed, stamped then I drew some cute (well I think they're cute :) birds and added legs on the page got my Neo2s out to colour things in a bit of doodling and that's that.

Here are some close ups...........

Is family important?

This sentiment just came to me and I went with it, if you think of family History (family tree) this is really true. I think family is Really important. They make us who we are in some ways, What we teach our children now this is what we give to the future. So we best make it good lol It's alot of responsibility when you think about it.

I really liked the paint stamping of one word. I wanted in the back ground I do this alot but in this case it felt more important, both with the words and the clock because all make a difference to each element of family. Well this wasn't suppose to be a deep post but these journal pages really moved me and I felt my heart agree with the sentiment, so there you have it. Dxx