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It’s spring and this is the garden of my dreams! Playing around in my art journal had me “planting” Julie Balzer’s Corn Flowers while Sally Carly by Dina Wakely marveled a the amazing colors of Dylusions inks! Of course every good garden needs a touch of glitter…
This is nice but I need really need more color in my garden…
My dream garden!
A bonus for me as I was “gardening”. Spray ink builds up on the stencil so I clean it off on journal pages. These are some very happy starts to art journal pages!
The sun is shining, flowers are starting to bloom and the stencils are singing- maybe the birds too but I am only hearing the stencils. The layers of paint that have built up on them have hypnotized me. Not just the “hypnotized from doing laundry and cleaning” (because a paperclip can hypnotize me when it comes to avoiding that stuff); hypnotized from doing the stuff too!
I always invite my muse to come into my studio so I thought it was only reasonable that I pay her a visit over spring break a few weeks back. Where does she live? In Turks and Caicos. How do I know she lives here? Because when I am there I am inspired like no where else. Not the most scientific way to track my muse- but it works for me…Here are some of the friendly fish from my morning snorkeling that sparked this art journal page.
A page in my homemade journal created using Gelli prints.
The mermaid is by my daughter (I just traced it).
I brought my Copic markers with me to the beach. I haven’t used them much but I decided it was time to get them out. I scribble journaled around the edges & colored in the mermaid.
The Pointy Circles stencil by Julie Balzer became colorful fish as I added layers of paints to the mermaid and fish. The string that holds the book together almost looks like the mermaid has been caught in a fishing line…perhaps I caught my muse?
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It’s spring and this is the garden of my dreams! Playing around in my art journal had me “planting” Julie Balzer’s Corn Flowers while Sally Carly by Dina Wakely marveled a the amazing colors of Dylusions inks! Of course every good garden needs a touch of glitter…
