Almost too hot to work

Today (Tuesday 8 March) it reached 41° C where I live!! It is meant to be Autumn with temperatures cooling down and leaves starting to turn red and gold. Summer is hanging on with a vengeance this year, with more days over 30° C expected and little relief in sight.

One thing it is not, is too hot to make art. (At least, not yet!)

Colour Me Positive Week 9 - PLAYFUL

So this week, CMP is all about play with the quote "Live like a grown up, play like a child" - Mimi Bondi, and the option of using circles on our page. In the spirit of the challenge, I watched a couple of Mimi Bondi's YouTube videos and tried my hand at some finger-painting.- it was fun and I got to try out the new colours that I bought last week. You can find Mimi's channel here:  http://www.youtube.com/mimibondi.

And of course, I chose a different quote: "Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" - Pablo Picasso.

Journal 52 Week 9 - Things you love / Things you hate

I did the "Dislike" page first and forgot to paint a background before I stuck my bits down, so I swished a bit of ink around and generally made a mess.

For the "Like" page, I prepped with the new black gesso I bought and wrote using Signo metallic pens. Very quick and easy because really the topics didn't really grab me.

Journal 52 Week 10 - Emerge / What lies beneath

I went with the "Emerge" prompt this week, but turned it one its head - instead of emerging from winter into spring/summer, my page is about how we are trapped in summer and trying to emerge into autumn/winter.

The words (which are my own) read: "The long hot summer refuses to release its grip so that we can EMERGE into the cool embrace of autumn and winter".

This one was also finger-painted - in red, orange and brown, but toned down with gesso - before being over-painted with other colours. The figure was drawn freehand.

Collages - J

J is my favourite letter being the first letter of my name, and I had lots of interesting words - but some of them would have been hard to find images for. As soon as I thought of "Jaundiced", the colour yellow came to mind as that is the colour skin takes on when someone has jaundice. So all the images are of yellow things!!

So that's everything that I have done since the last post. I hope you enjoy your visit - bye for now.