We had to make a list of words we liked then write them around the page in only one color. At the end I added some color around the edges because there was way too much white space otherwise and it looked bare. I tried the Stabilo pencil colors and not sure I like them... maybe I need to press harder and get more color coverage to get better watercolor look when they get wet. That is part of the fun of testing out new supplies!
The other page I made for this group was using one of the month's techniques: overwriting. It is something I have done on other art journal pages too. I like it because it is possible to write out something that maybe I need to say but don't want anyone else to read. The technique is to write one line then write over it as you go down the next lines. I tend to go over it all a few times, and this time I tried it with various colors of paint marker pens over and over a few lines. The rest of the page isn't very pretty as it was mostly a test of the paint marker colors and some previous stenciling.
I was looking back through some of my travel photos from recent years (looking for art inspiration) and found a few that I wanted to post for all the orange challenges I have been doing lately. Seems I am very much called to the color orange lately so these excited me to see again.
The inside of a church in Prague:
A post box in Prague:
A mosaic bench on Green Street in one of London's East Indian neighborhoods:
Breakfast salmon in Estonia:
Beautiful flowers at the Midsummer Fair in Riga, Latvia:
The beautiful terra cotta orange tiles of Trakai in Lithuania:
Ok, I think I like the color orange! (And many more travel photos another time)
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Linked to: Mandarin Orange Monday, Color Connection, Art Journal Every Day
