Bubble You

The prompt this week was to bubble away troubles so I packed up annoying people in bubbles and floated them away.

Flow re-start

In the “A Layer A Day” Art journaling group in fall 2019 we were talking all about flow states and this week the prompt was what we did when the flow wasn’t happening. I journaled about dipping into the hive mind. I was thinking about Pinterest and YouTube but also the inspiration from the work of other “butterflies”.

When you’re skating on thin ice

Line from a song “When you’re skatin’ on thin ice, then you might as well dance”. What we do when inspiration fails. Might as well play and have fun. What have you got to lose?

Comfort Zone

Creating within my comfort zone with a familar palette and tools.

Tutti Fruiti

6 X 6 challenge this month was “Fruit” and I immediately had images of Carmen Miranda and her fruit hats dancing in my head so I had to draw that in my journal.

Outside of the Box

The prompt was about what we did to get out of a rut. “Go a little crazy, think outside of the box”.

Harvest

I used dye cut leaves which I painted with watercolours and mounted on a gel press background in this 6 X 6 inch challenge page.

Shapes

 I am interested in the juxtaposition and tension between circles and lines. To me there is a contradiction. We experience time in a linear way and yet learning, revelation, inspiration and change happen in circles, spirals, onion layers of meaning.

I added some doodling. What are those things? I started creating a lightening rod on the side that reminded me of the creations of a retired metal-worker neighbour of ours that embellished his house with lightening rods of curious design. But then it started to look like the hands of a clock, so I added one on the bottom. But then the balls reminded me of kundalini chakra charts so who the heck knows? I drew a bunch of lines and arrows to emphasize linear flow and added to the background with elements from TCW Wanderlust stencil and Tim Holtz mini stencil set 1 (I use these mini’s all the time). I should add that the mandala is created with TCW Sunflower Mandala and I have lost track of the name and designer of my wave stencil. I used inks applied with makeup sponges through stencils. I doodled with a Faber-Castell drawing pen, Posca marker and sharpies

Stages.