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Releasing Emotions onto My Art Journal

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I was full of feelings I didn’t really want.  Logic told me to let them go but I was just holding on to them.  To help me process the emotions I started scribbling my thoughts in gelatos on a big paper. Then I grabbed markers and scribbled more feelings.   Then watercolor crayons.  Then reinkers.   It created wonderful graffiti layers and released my feelings.  For me, writing it out has such an impact – so much more than talking or typing.

A layer of white paint pushed the layers back some while the gelatos and watercolor crayons subtly tinted the paint – just as emotions tint the way we see the world.  I don’t have a plan for this so it will just go into my stash of  background papers ready for when my muse drops in for a Diet Coke.

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Messy Hands

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Sunny Weather +  Paint= Messy Hands

On a beautiful spring day my daughter and I went out to the picnic table and started finger painting.  Time stood still as we painted together.  A joyous day. A magnificent day. The best day!  Hope you’ve found time to paint and create this week.  Have a moment?  Stop by Paint Party Friday and check out all sorts of painting goodness.

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Joyful Singing

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We’re a family who loves music.  Absolutely no discernible  musical talent but what we lack in talent we make up for in enthusiasm.  Imagine 4 tone deaf people with one mom who can’t keep a beat or remember many of the words singing at the top of their lungs.  Sorry for such a painful image- that’s why we tend to sing only at home or in the car.  As off key as we are – it fills my soul with joy when we sing together- especially since the kids since songs from the ancient 80’s.  This journal page was the result of the residual feelings from a song or two.

I am in love with the floral stencil from Julie Balzer and Crafters Workshop.  It is so free and loose.  Do you ever find that you find something that isn’t what you’d usually buy but once you start using it you wonder how you lived without it?

 

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