Summer night City

Well when I did this at the begining of the week it was SO sunny (cold but sunny) all my bulbs in the front garden are beginning to make an appearance, Spring is here I thought. Yes, well that lovely sun didn't last so long now did it, but the comforting thing is, that it will be back :) I changed everything up for this Diary page. This is based on the song 'Summer night City' - ABBA You can see with the weather why this song came to mind.

I asked hubby what song he thought this represented he said 'Hot in the City' - Billy Idol.  Which is also a great track. It's become a game for us now, when I do a page he has to guess ;) Good guess but he never was really a big ABBA fan. I remember dancing in the disco in my teens and this is one of  the songs that was a floor filler. Any way I got some glossy paper and some alcohol inks out to make the back ground. Then, took some scraps of black card and a yellow & white pencil. Very quick page and totally different for me. But it was still fun, playing with alcohol inks listening to AbbA again *smiles*. Wonder what song I will go for next? Any suggestions? Dxx

Who Are You?

Morning I'm up bright & early, but the weather isn't as good as yesterday.  I am really Enjoying playing in the Diary from last year. Another song this time it's 'Who are you?  'The Who' I do love this song but it's very much associated with this American TV program now isn't it, actually all the CSI's have a song by 'The Who' as their theme.

I wanted to make it a little different though. I painted the bkgrnd, then I put my fingerprints in ink and dipped them all over the the bkgrnd to. I was going to just draw a face and put a question mark over it but , they ended up so cute I couldn't bare to cover them up! So I drew lots of different types of question marks. Then printed off the CSI off google and added some neo2s.

Coloured my faces in and then doodled some more, round the boarders. I really enjoyed this page. I enjoy them all obviously but I like how this idea developed and became a reality. 

So who are these two beautiful young girls what ghastly end has befallen them and what on earth were they involved in? Or are these the murderers a beautiful pair of young girls on the serial killer list? Or were they seen by a witnesses at the scene of the crime. Or have they both mysteriously disappeared  Dr Gil Grissom is now in charge of this investigation and I am sure all questions will be answered with no stone left unturned (quite literally). 

Well that was fun :) and this was kinda of what was going through my mind whilst creating the page, isn't this one of the best parts of art journaling? you can go anywhere be anyone and you are the creator of it all.  I hope you like it. Thank you for all your comments and I will see you soon. 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

Walk this way

I am amazed that we have entries for this months journal challenge already. (see previous post), I hope this is a good sign and there will be lots of entries this month ;0)  Anyway, back to my journal that was last years diary. I have been using songs as inspiration, this is a classic for me 'Walk this way- Aerosmith' 

If you know of Monty Python you will know all about this 'The ministry of silly walks'.  This was what came to me for the song title. I used some fresco paints for the bkgrnd. Printed off the walks & words from google I then added more paint to blend in the picture and started to doodle added some Neo2s and used posca pens blk & pink (they are really good) for writing on all surfaces. I have already had an idea for another page I have had a song in my head all day so will post another soon. Dxx

I love a red door!

My front door is Bright red and so this was the first thing that came to mind when I came to play with this  challenge, I mentioned it before Here. I am still playing in my own time lol this is what I was inspired to do with the title song of  'Paint it Black' by the Rolling Stones, this is a tune I really like. Hope you like it to Dxx

I said I wanted to journal more so .....

Here is my new journal and this is the first page ;) I used some scrap paper & ink splashes from some post cards I'm making for the back ground and then doodled. Dawn (not me) had a challenge last Nov. I have only just found it. It was a song every day and you had to use this as your inspiration. This song is 'Take it easy - The Eagles' Now the first thing that sprang to mind was this....

So I drew a bunny admittedly not as sexy as this one but I love my colourful bunny spread.

Don't forget to pop back for the journal challenge on the 1st of every month Dawn xx