Welcome! I’m Carolyn Dube – This colorful journey is all about the freedom of play!
Day 8 of AEDM! I picked up some Radiant Rain inks at Art is You last month. Here’s what I like: they are vibrant, have some sparkle, and react with water. So when I had a gesso’d page covered with blue Radiant Rain I decided to use my raindrop stencil from Julie Balzer. I put the stencil down and sprayed with water. Then rolled a paper towel over it to remove the water and some of the ink. It gave the drops a great texture.
This was a quick art journal page for Art Every Day Month but it turned into a technical adventure. WordPress has some little critters in it messing up my html code. I am not a programmer but I managed to diagnose the problem and solve it. Along the way there was a scare that I would have to reinstall wordpress in a way that would delete every previous post – basically start from scratch. That had me in a panic! Luckily, it was an easy fix – it just took me 2 days to find it.
As I have been visiting artists’ posts through AEDM my mind has been returning to several posts that were sketches or all black and white. So I thought I’d try it. 
I just couldn’t leave it black and white. I just couldn’t.
Thought the raindrops needed something so I outlined them.
Next I wanted some sparkle so I put glitter over each raindrop. It muted the brightness of the colors some and I must admit – I wasn’t happy with that. So I added the blue & yellow watercolor.
AEDM day 6. Some days you just have to trust your instincts. Today was one of those days for me.