Finally! I have finished this journal page. I posted about it on Monday/Tuesday for Earth
Day at Diana Evans 10 Minute Warm Up. It
started off as purely watercolour but as I went on, I more or less, used whatever
I could lay my hands on. I will also link it to Julie Balzer's Art JournaL Every Day.
I have been doing a
lot of digital work this week due to my shoulder (thanks for the kind comments
last week). I had a scan this week and
apparently the tendons have come away from the rotor cuff, the upshot is that I
need an operation to fix it. Meanwhile I
am to restrict the use of my arm.
Computer work is good because I don’t have to move it much. I can manage to do small works in my journal,
so all is good. The creative juices
won’t be stopped!
For a while now I
have been working on a series of digital work for a joint exhibition with a
photographer friend. I have been
neglecting it a bit so now I have no excuse to forge ahead. So I got started in earnest on Monday using
MOM to get me going. I finally worked
out my theme – Behind
the Lace Curtain
The lace curtain
because I cannot help thinking how we woman tend to hide behind things, we
reveal but don’t reveal. I have been
getting into vintage photographs a lot lately, maybe because of the book
project I am doing for my family. I was
going to use family photographs, but when my friend Shelly said her family
would get upset if she used her family photos, it made me stop and think. So I will use vintage free copyright photos
from the net, however I have changed them so drastically that they might not be
recognizable from the original. I will
try and use one of my grandmother’s from when she was 17. But, I will ask around the family first.
I am not too sure
about this one, may be add a quote, but the fullness of time will reveal. I like the pose as you can image a story
behind, her first dance, honeymoon?
This one talks to
me of a young woman waiting for her beau, peeping out from behind the curtain
with anticipation.
This last one has a
cast of sadness, a child peeping through from the outside, envious of what she
sees inside. It is a bit biographical
for me, as a child I was always the outsider, looking at other families wishing
I had a family like theirs.
For the images I
used Photoshop and had layers of photos, original art work for textures and of
course the paintbrush tool to create colour etc. etc.
For a bit of fun I
created this from some vintage art from Freubelsl Freebies. The sea I painted in
Painter with some embellishments from some free brushes I down loaded from Annika von Holdt. I
feel it needs a quote and all I could think of is “Who is the monster!” That could be because I have become so use to
having words on my journal pages. What
do you think does it need words?
Have a happy Paint
Party Friday and a creative week.
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