However you can probably see below how it started out - as a painted background onto which I stencilled with a lighter blue. The bird on the line are done with washi tape, and I couldn't resist this stone angel! That was as far as I got for a while .... I do sometimes work that way, just make the "beginnings" of a page and then let it lie awhile until I'm ready to work on it. Sometimes I never get to that point, and then I might gesso over it or cover it with paper.
However, on this occasion I found the words zero tolerance in a newsletter and knew immediately what I wanted to write about ... the question I keep asking myself, why I am becoming so much less tolerant of bad spelling and rudeness and any number of other things as I get older? I don't know - does it have something to do with having less time ahead of you than behind? Other people I ask about it say they are the same, but I never WANTED to be a grumpy old bat making speeches to people that begin with "young man .....". Lord, maybe I'm becoming my mother????
So then of course it was dead easy to come up with a whole list of stuff that makes me cross ... and I could have written more! Except of course that I didn't want to admit (even to myself) just how very VERY cranky I can be...
7 comments:
I just absolutely love your work. You have given me inspiration to start back art journaling.
Another fabulous page - you are so right though! I hate bad manners and spitting in the street and when i'm seeing a patient i have a laminated sheet on the desk asking them to switch their mobiles off. The amount of people who come in for advice and then sit there texting throughout the consultation - it makes my blood boil!!!!
I am not sure you need any help at all, Rosie! I love the fizzing energy of this and I am surprised you didn't hear me shouting yes! yes! oh yes! as I twisted my head from side to side to read your comments. That's before I got round to admiring your lovely blues and whites ...
I love your page and you echo my sentiments exactly
LOL I'm with you on all those gripes - plus very loud car stereos with lots of bass. The louder the music the worse 'musical'taste the driver seems to have :-) Anyway, you've turned your grumps into a fantastic page.
Oooooh I think I could add a few things to that list! People on their mobile phones when they should be socialising face to face is a biggy for me!
Great page though Rosie..... (as always) xx
oooh this is wonderful! Is it age? Or menopause? Or fibro? Or - are we simply reacting to another significant decline in civil behavior? I don't know but I sure agree with you!
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