It's a long weekend in Australia - today is ANZAC Day where we remember fallen servicemen & women, as well as those currently serving with our armed forces. The day always begins with dawn services all over the country and later in the day, a televised service from Gallipoli in Turkey as well as from France - usually Villers-Brettoneux. There are lots of special events due to the centenary of WW1.
Anyway, a long weekend means more time for everything including art.
Colour Me Positive Week 15 - HAPPY
This prompt was about how we approach life with a quote from the Buddha:"There is no path to happiness ... Happiness is the path", and with the option to use some drips or splatters on the page.
I went for a fairly literal rendition of the quote with a pathway through a garden, and used paint drips for the stems of plants and trunks of abstract trees. I kept the paint fairly liquid so the flowers look like splatters of paint.
The background was stencilled in pale pink before being washed over with blue and yellow. I used coloured pencils for the steps and pathway, and finished off with some small pops of bright yellow & orange in amongst the flowers.
Colour Me Positive Week 16 - ART
The challenge talked about art feeding the soul, teaching us to think & improvise, and how we can often use it as a sort of therapy. The quote came from Thomas Merton: "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time", with the option of putting a bird on the page.
I immediately thought of using some of my previous art on the page. I looked at the background in various pieces and homed in on some to print. I used the background from Week 12 of Journal 52 for the letter A, and from Week 13 for R. The background from CMP Week 15 is the T, and the bird is from Week 12.
I used a very simple background for the page, just two colours and a stencil - I wanted my bird to have somewhere to perch, so the lattice was perfect.
Journal 52 Week 15 - Humble / Noble
I had a few ideas for this challenge where Sarah wanted us to use the quote: " Be humble for you are made of Earth. Be noble for you are made of Stars". I decided to go with the gothic ruin as I had a suitable stencil. I painted a rough shape along the bottom of the page, then stencilled the windows in white. The sky was painted using paynes grey.
Then it was a matter of painting a lightening sky, but still with some stars showing. The picture doesn't quite show the little touches of yellow and pink and the light at the side of the building looks a bit more like fire than light. Most of the sky was finger-painted and I found some paints did not blend as well as others.
Journal 52 Week 16 - Impossible Dream / Goals List
Effy asked us to create a page that looks at our "impossible" dreams, while Sarah wanted us to look at what our goals are this week, this month or this year.
I went with the impossible dream because that is easy and I did a goals page last year for DLP and they have not changed very much. My impossibly held dream is to design a house and have it built somewhere with a sea view. Why is it impossible? Well - first money - land is very expensive by the seaside; second money - it's very expensive to build a house; third time - I've left everything a bit late.
But I can still dream and I can still keep drawing up plans incorporating all the things I see that I think are really good ideas - one day it will be perfect!
Collages - O
Well this was a no-brainer as soon as I got hold of the Daphne magazine with lovely oriental prints to cut out and turn into umbrellas. Except, I cut them out and stuck them on my collage page together with some bits cut from an old calendar.
Now I just need to decide which P word I will use.
Thanks for visiting. I hope you liked what you saw
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