Be Nobody But Yourself

I am continuing to play in this Moleskine Journal, sometimes in the car in the morning before work. If I have laid down some gesso in the background at home, I can spread some color on with some water color crayons with a water brush or a baby wipe in the front seat of the car. Baby wipes are great for spreading larger surfaces quickly. When that baby wipe is full of color and when it dries I can also use that somewhere. I begin some journaling and eventually something will come to me that I want to collage. I find myself still drawn to using faces in my journaling, so this one came out of altering a face from a fashion magazine and the gown came from yet another magazine. I love recreating an entire new character. Call it my love of costume design in college or making paper dolls as a child. Maybe both. Day by day along with some brief journaling, a bit more drawing with watercolor crayons, doodling with paint markers and the page is full. I like it. And I am a firm believer that one should always be oneself all the time, not only in art. I am joining the party. You are invited!! Thanks for stopping by. Happy New Year!!

Trees Revisited

I took a piece I'd made from the pile of Gelli Plate prints, one that I wasn't too thrilled with at the time, and then took my own piece that I'd had printed. sketched and cut out the tree and glued it down on the Gelli Print. I'm not sure where this is going but I kind of like it. I just realized I didn't get rid of all the white pen marks on some of the branches but I kind of like them too. Here is another tree on a very large piece of plywood. Can you tell what the tree was made from? Thanks for visiting here..........................................................jo