This week in Kim Klassen’s Beyond Layers course we were on the lookout for colour. We were encouraged to go out and take photos of different colours for each day of the week. However, since life rarely runs smoothly, we could raid our archives if necessary. All the following photos were taken during the last [...]
A while ago Tee Thompson posted an art journal prompt on Facebook called “stranger”. The idea was to draw or paint a stranger or use a photo from a magazine or newspaper and then journal a bit about the life of your stranger. La Principessa Befania hails from a far-distant land of high peaked mountains [...]
Milliande’s art journaling theme for the beginning of this year is “seeds”. The first one was about sowing a seed versus being the seed. What sort of seed are you? Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. I am a dream seed, cast into the Heavens to drift into a sleeping mind and there to sow the [...]
I have finally completed my sketchbook and am preparing to post off (and hoping it arrives safely). I have paid for it be digitised but in the meantime here are my own pictures of it. Part of the page folds out; it contains information about the daruma dolls the last page folds out, it contains [...]
At the end of July DH and I attended a theatre summer school, organised by Luxembourg’s NWTC, in the village of Clairefontaine on the border of Belgium and Luxembourg. I chose to sing my way through the week and he chose to do comedy in various forms. The week was hectic as we worked from [...]
This month (August) the Yahoo Cloth Paper Studio group offered the challenge – using only magazine create one collage a day for seven days. This time you could include photos of your backgrounds as well, so there was a before and after element to the challenge. I don’t usually make backgrounds for these collages as [...]
Another art journal prompt from Tee, this time for a rainbow
Iris Sibirica’s clothes were as exotic as her name. Blessed with a Spring complexion she could wear clothes of any colour and indeed her wardrobe was extensive. Most of the time she wore a pale green underskirt with overskirts or panels of different colours and gauzy blouses of pale and contrasting colours. The overskirts were [...]
Another prompt by Tee was to use something translucent on your journal page. This is my interpretation.
A recent prompt on FB from Tee Thompson was to incorporate something old in your art journal page. I have used a photocopy of a poem, in French. It’s one of many painstakingly copied, often in beautiful handwriting, into a book that was designed for just such a purpose that I picked up in a [...]
