I Love Purple

I absolutely do love the colour purple.

Perhaps it is because it was the compromise colour in my childhood. I wanted to wear pink like all the little girls and my mother insisted that blue brought out my blue eyes and pale skin better. The compromise was always violet.
 
When I was in university I had a favorite purple outfit and purple ombre sunglasses. This led some to nickname me “the purple haze” for a time.  I am channeling this memory in this page.
 
 

I used some foam stamps with Lindy’s magicals and had trouble getting a good true colour photo due to shimmer.

Completed the piece with doodled flowers and bubbles as well as some embossed script and words.

Blue Moon

I sometimes like to work on black gesso pages. This page was inspired by a T shirt design that I saw someone wearing in a photo right after I heard the prompt for the week was “Colour I am”. The bird at the window speaks to me about my blue feelings of being confined during the pandemic. I am not totally a prisoner but sit at my window, not flying.

Tree

More explorations on the “roots” theme. I stayed with negative space painting for this page, beginning with using a collaged base, coloured with inks. I then over-painted with acrylics and final touches added with pens and markers.

Materials:

  • torn book pages, music paper and Tim Holtz decoupage tissue.
  • Lindy’s Gang magicals 
  • Acrylic paints (various)
  • Posca pens and Tombow markers.

 

Journeys on the Night Train

Another experiment in negative painting. I was inspired by dream journeys where I am on a train and see scenes of places I have visited or lived in or simply passed by rushing by through the train windows.

Persephone

This weeks topic was “Gifts from our Roots”.  I was musing on the mixed blessings and curses from my own roots when I thought about the Persephone myth, one that has long resonated with me. 

Because I was taking a bit of a contrarian approach to the topic, I thought it might suit a “negative painting” technique where the foreground images are constructed through hiding parts of the foreground.  

Persephone climbs up the roots from the underworld still clutching a pomegranate.  The seeds she consumed in the Underworld will keep pulling her into darkness.

I like to feel that the seeds of darkness also help one see the light and feel empathatically the darkness withint others. 

 

 

Build and Bloom

This week I reclaimed a page by using black gesso on it and did an organic and inorganic pair of riffs on the spiral form.

Back to Mail Art

I have been so immersed in art journaling and so busy with web design that I have been neglecting my mail art community. I am plunging back in with a series based on faces (masked and un-masked) and am also planning some fall-themed cards.

New Wants

After decluttering and organizing this month thoughts turned to just why it is that we accumulate all this stuff. With mind like a butterfly, the new, shiny does appeal.

Organize

Organize

 Organizing is such a mountain to climb and if you live in a small space it is all about finding little storage spaces.

Structure

This week’s journal page was about de-cluttering and organizing art-space and arts practice. I started with a compass and protractor to give structure to a hand drawn mandala. Then I splashed on primary colours and swirled them together. I then drew out the shapes with shading and black and white details. Lastly I added the word “Structure” along with some text and number stamping .