Week 12 already

The art challenges are almost a quarter of the way through - already!! I was a bit slower this week doing the Journal 52 pages as I needed to wait for them to dry in between layers, but I finished them yesterday and got my collage done today.

Colour Me Positive Week 12 - Expanding

This week's quote: "Until you spread your wings, you'll never know how far you can fly", and we were asked to exlpore trying to achieve goals and to use wings on our page. My seahorse sort of has wings - if you've ever seen one swimming, the action of their fin looks like a wing.

I splotched paint in blues and purples with a touch of yellow and green for the background, before I used some of my new stamps. The first one with seaweed, coral & shells, was stamped on the page and on a piece of tracing paper which I reversed before sticking to the page. I coloured these with my brush markers. Then I stamped the seahorse, drew in the fin/wing and painted it yellow and orange.

I used my favourite quote from Katherine Hepburn: "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." I thought it was appropriate as seahorses break rules by having the male carry the eggs and give birth, and they are such improbable looking animals!

Journal 52 Week 12 - Emulate / Duplicate

So this week, Effy thought we should do a page in the style of our favourite artist (emulate) and Sarah, thought we should copy directly trying to get as close to the original as possible (duplicate). I went with "Emulate" and combined a couple of Mimi Bondi's pages from her book "No Shenanigans".

The first part was dropping some paint on the page and pressing another page against it. When dry, you do it again with different colours. Some splotches end up quite wet, so these pages took a while to dry. I then added more colour using my fingers to cover the empty spots.

Next I added some squiggly lines with grey and white paint, circles in white and yellow, and lots of splatters in white, pink and yellow. It looked like a party, so that's the quote I went with: "Life is a party - Live life to the full".

Collages - L

This time I went with two words - "Lures and Lepidoptera". A catalogue arrived a couple of weeks ago with lots of fishing lures - they were so colourful that I tore the page out. I was looking for L words and came across "lepidopterous" and then went looking for picture of butterflies. I found some in my father's old Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia, which I've scanned so I can use them again.

It seemed only sensible to combine the two in a page!

I hope you are all having a Happy Easter. Don't eat too much chocolate tomorrow. Cheers.