I keep coming back to this colour combination of blue and lime green - just love it, maybe almost as much as orange and pink? These are just happy colours for me.
And you can see below how it started out - I am trying to make backgrounds of more than one colour, but I have this besetting sin of always working in tones of the same colour, and its something I must fight against! This page must be a success on that front because I've actually used 3 different paint colours on it - just absolutely bog standard acrylic paint, nothing fancy.
Most of my pages begin with a painted background like this, and then I add collage as the fancy takes me. The bits of black text you can see below are actually tissue paper - I love searching out printed tissue, and when you tear pieces off and put them on with matte medium they dry transparent. I just LOVE the effect it gives.
So then I added some paint pen doodles - which have such great opacity you can even put yellow over blue - and used my circle punches to cut out shapes from colour copies of old journal pages, adding other page scraps as well. Why pay for collage sheets when you can make your own, right? This was a tip from from Teesha Moore and its really brilliant - I use it all the time now.
The page stayed like this for a few days, before I came in again, sat down and got some stuff off my chest. Journalling is such a great stress buster, and even though nobody but me knows what this page is about that doesn't really matter. Revisiting my journals in the future, perhaps I will remember what was happening, but then again I guess its not important if I don't? The point is to get it down on paper at the time, and rob it of its negative power. It works for me, which is mainly why I do it. I don't just journal the negative emotions in my life though, the beauty of keeping a journal is that you can celebrate EVERYTHING, good, bad, average, whatever.
And that left just the final doodly details, which as you know I absolutely adore doing - there's something so restful about it as you drift off into the doodle zone .... I actually listen to talk radio a lot of the time while I'm working, but that's just me, and I can stand a lot of silence and my own company.
Sorry these pictures are a little bit dark - I wish now I'd photoshopped them to lighten them up a touch, but I'm sure you get the idea ...
Thanks for stopping by!
Rosie X
5 comments:
Rosie i just love your journaling. Would you mind sharing what pens you use to write on top of the acrylic paint? I use Pitt Pens. They seem to be the only ones i can get to work and be ruined . But even then sometimes they bog down.... Hugs! deb
Thanks, Rosie! I can't understand why it should be that getting something on paper gets rid of the negative stuff but it certainly does - and not just plain writing, but the art bit makes it even more effective.
My latest page has a murder and stepping stones . . . all purely symbolic of course!
Hi Rosie! Love seeing your step by step process... it's so fun to watch it all come together. Beautiful piece.
Jinxxygirl I thought I'd answer your question here, so everyone else can see it. More and more I'm using my Posca paint black pen (the finest one) for just about everything. Its not as fine as I'd like sometimes, but it writes on just about EVERYTHING, and flows really well. I still use other fine line pens now and again, but they just don't flow the same way, so it seems like I'm willing sometimes to compromise on that. Hope this helps.
Really like this page and the way you transform the icky stuff into art. Using the tissue that has words is a great idea. I'm thinking maybe I could print some of my writings onto tracing paper. Wonder what would happen? Oh, the possibilities . . .
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