Back from the Greek island of Rhodes - having had a pretty good time, and not fallen out with my sister (aided by the consumption of delicious blue cocktails)! I even managed a bit of art journalling while I was there ...The above is a page made back in August, when I was NOT having a good day. You know the kind, you have them sometimes I'm sure. Anyway you can see how the page began below - this is a background done with Distress Inks onto which I dropped water. I stamped the rough stitches at the top and bottom, and added the picture before writing anything. She looked sort of spiky and cross, which is how I felt at the time ....
And from there the page grew really fast - I drew in lots of shapes and coloured them, and basically had a good ole moan while I worked.
And this is how it all worked out in the end - I like it, and didn't really know how much I disliked acidic yellow, but now I see that I associate it with that acid feeling when nothing is going right! For once I didn't try and fill every corner - I'd said what was on my mind and was happy to leave it there.
You may like to know that I WAS better the next day ... these yellow days don't come along too often, but when they do, watch out!
wonderful page. glad you had a wonderful time on your trip. i would love to go there some day. so happy you could go!
ReplyDeleteGreat page Rosie, I like your stishy stamp :D x
ReplyDeleteNice to see you back again! That's a splendidly moody face: off days clearly produce great work just as much as 'good days'. I wonder how often Picasso or Monet or Velasquez painted when grumpy and in pain ...
ReplyDeleteWelcome back!
ReplyDeleteI need to see your symi pictures! (But I like your journal pages too!)
ReplyDeleteLove this Rosie. Every time I visit your page I marvel at how your style has developed from that first page that you did, and how you weren't sure you were an art journaler. You so are!
ReplyDeleteI call those bad days "My black days". Strange since I really like black. But still. I tend to warn my family, my husband especially, when I have one of these days. :-))
ReplyDeleteI really like your artwork, ecpecially your journaling. I have very difficult to get some words to my pages other than the short lines I´m writing. Hopefully I can get some inspiration from you!
Have a nice start on the week
/Lisa in Sweden
I love your handwriting-I'm very envious-it really makes your page!!
ReplyDeleteI really like that acidy yellow!! Its one of my 'new favourite' colours :-)(Looks fab with purple)
ReplyDeleteGreat page as always Rosie ...love your doodles.
I agree that yellow is for grumpy days.
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