The weather was getting me down so I painted the page black and began to frame it with collage - this is the simplest quickest way I know to get a page started. I sometimes feel a bit lazy working this way but the amount of mental energy I have to spare varies, and to me its more important to get something down on paper than whether its clever or arty. I'm not doing this to prove my artistic worth to anybody, m journal is a conversation with MYSELF, and so all you have to do is like what you make, or even just enjoy the process. Nothing else is necessary.
There is a vivid pink cyclamen on the windowsill where I work, and when I looked out of the window down the garden there are evergreen conifers in shades from bottle green to almost yellow. I realised that even on a grey day there was plenty of colour ... if you choose to look for it.
Hope there is light, life, colour, peace hope and love in your life too .... though you may have to look for it like I did!
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Hi Rosie, This has been a more stressful than usual week, and busier too so it wasn't until this evening that I remembered to visit you.
Was it Constable who said every picture should have a little bit of red in it . . . and yes it jumps and lifts us with it!
I was also reminded of the Scottish artist called John Lowrie Morrison or Jolomo who paints scenes from the West Highlands and uses the most outrageous colours for a rainy day, for instance, but as he - and you - said the colours are there if you look for them.
So thanks for this page -isn't it great when we get the great exchange and what was nothing but doom and gloom becomes full of hope and light and joy.
May you both be peaceful in these days.Lots of love.
Love you words .. and your work is fantastic. Been looking at a lot of your posts. ..you not only rock..you roll...xo
That red really does jump out :). A life-affirming page, and I am always intrigued how your pages begin, and the shifts you experience by the end. Thinking of you and those weeks ahead ...
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