DLP week 4 Words with Friends

actually this is about words from friends--words of love, friendship and support after i was let go from my job.  These people help sustain my soul.

Black gesso, printed deli paper, white gesso, collage papers, washi tape, punched hearts and black brush pen.

Take a Word--Woman

SPA--Happy Birthday, Robbie Burns

It would take quite a party to get me to eat haggis.

SOSS--I swear I saw it...

I is for Irony...am I really crazy... I know I saw it...not that clever on my own...not to mention that I DON'T GET IRONY--EVER!

so...accept, embrace, kick me out on my butt...but for every mother of a 1960's catholic high school girl...

Happy Mother's Day!

Some ATC's-- More of the torn paper series

These are all available for trade.

Documented Life Project Week 3

January Theme
The Blank Page and How to Face It!
January 17
Art Challenge:  The Color Wheel
Journal Prompt:  "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way . . . “    - Georgia O’Keeffe

This is what came out of me...

the eye is by Pnutick at deviantart.com

Collage Obsession--Marsala

A lovely, rich color, this.

Had a play with design and filters.

messing about with paint

Documented Life Project 2015 Week 2

First step, the January theme--conquering the blank page!

second step was the weekly prompt--use Gesso.

used white gesso this time, scraped with a plastic card an added texture with stencils .

Next, stenciled with acrylics and splattered with metallic ink and sprayed with water to make some drips. 

Third step, Journal Prompt:  “The beginning is always today.” -Mary Shelley.  I found a quote that I liked better and wrote it on a tag.  It says "the world is round and the place which seems like the end may also be the beginning" -Ivy Baker Priest

Next, went through my little box of cutout words and phrases and found some that went together and stuck them down.

Finished?

maybe...maybe not...

left side

right side 

Some ATC's

card stock, painted and torn dictionary pages, magazine cutouts and text.

SPA--Paisley

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you
And her face is like a sail
Speck of white so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots colors all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

 Rolling Stones

SOSS--Baby it's cold outside

Nothing says winter quite like dogs in coats!

SOSS--It CAN always get worse

Yes, yes it was...

SOSS--Yucky

Three Muses--Butterfly

The quote is from a story by Nora and Delia Ephron.  It intrigued me so much, that I had to run with it a bit.  Found the subway photo on Google, and played with filters.

Digital Whisper--White Buffalo Calf Woman

She will always come back when the people need to remember who they are...

SPA and Take a Word --What's Gnu, Zetticat?

I couldn't help myself...

Gnu photo from Wikimedia, background and zetti bits from Crowabout, cat and hat from Rucola designs.

documented Life Project 2015 First week spread

First step, the January theme--conquering the blank page!

I began by coating the pages with black gesso, scraped on with a plastic card.  I accidentally bought a quart of the stuff, but I am loving the tarry blackness!

second step was the weekly prompt--use book pages and text paper!

I tore up some strips of dictionary pages and a grammar school workbook (love the pulpy "arithmetic paper" as we used to call it at St. Leo's.  Also punched some 2" circles from said pages, and glued them down. 

 Left overnight to both dry and percolate in my head.

Third step, added some azure blue, lime green and bright yellow with a cosmetic sponge, then stenciled with white and colors.

To finish the left side of the spread I printed and cut out the words I had written a few days ago, about what I hope to achieve in the new year 

The right side of the spread was made in the same steps, but with cutouts from an art magazine, a clothing label and a blob of dried paint from inside the cover of a tube of white acrylic.

SO FAR SO GOOD!