Recently I've been challenging myself to keep trying new stuff - which includes techniques and materials I may shy away from. Well, I hardly ever do double pages, so that was a start, and I didn't used to think that pink and orange went together, but have discovered with the help of Kate Crane that they really DO! So then I went for a painted background (revolutionary for me) with stencilled bits and paint splodged quite randomly - all very out of character I do assure you!! Am a bit of a neat freak usually ... I can't help it, I know its wrong.
Then I got out my new Inkadinkado cogs stamp, which I hadn't played with yet. I love the symbolism of cogs and would like more - its to do with how all things are connected so that you touch one thing and something much further down the line is moved and changed. I know what I mean, but its that time of night when my brain has given up for the day ....
I've been conscious for a while that there have been a few of my childhood dreams still hanging about in the back of my brain, not to mention some of my crazier adult ones. It seemed to me that there had to come a time when you said to yourself - that's never going to happen, but its really OK. So thats what this page is about - if you will the deliberate setting aside of old unrealistic dreams (I couldn't climb up Macchu Piccu anyway!). At the same time I also wanted to celebrate that you can make new dreams any time you like, and perhaps when you're older you actually have a better chance of achieving them ... all that experience has to be useful for
something doesn't it?
And of course I wouldn't be me without adding a considerable amount of doodling - and I'm still loving my white and black pens for this. The white pen doesn't actually work as well over paint as it does over the Caran d'ache crayons ...
I'm also delighted to report that I began work on making some of these things happen - my blog has sprouted new pages and the archive of past work I wanted to include. Someone has also kindly offered to help me with the design, so that part of my dream is coming to fruition. As ever, thank you for coming by and I LOVE hearing from you :D
