I'M BACK - DID YOU MISS ME?

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!

HOPING FOR GOOD NEWS ...

I made this page in revolt after watching a resolutely gloomy news bulletin which left me wondering why good stuff wasn't being reported? My Beloved adores that "Extreme Makeover" TV programme because its all about good things happening, people helping their friends and neighbours, and lives generally being turned around for the better. There's a lot of it out there but you never hear about it ....
I began by laying down waves of colour using my water soluble crayons, and adding some stamped and coloured images. Don't ask me why these particularly wacky images - no real reason I just like them! Then I added the words "good news" in the middle of the page and began to write around them.
And it sort of just went on from there - I leave spaces where they seem to need to be, or draw things in them if not, it just grows really. Most of the colour apart from the background here is done with my Promarkers.
This will be my last post for a couple of weeks because I'm off on my travels again - to Greece this time. Yes I do know that I've just come back from Florida (and its not ideal to be go away again so soon, honest), but if you're thinking "lucky thing" stop right there! The downside is that I'm going in order to keep my sister company, and she is bossy. Very Bossy. Nuff said .... wish me luck and pray that I keep my temper!