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Raindrops with Technical Difficulties

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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.

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Trust

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AEDM day 6.  Some days you just have to trust your instincts.  Today was one of those days for me.

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Courage, Strength and Outlining Words

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A simple page but a page I needed today.  Sometimes I need to remind myself I have the strength and courage to do what I know I need to do.  I feel like this page needs more, but I am stopping here for now.  This is a busy art month – and when it rains it pours!  I’m linking up to AEDM & Just Journals.

 

This started as smudges and smears of leftover red paint.  The yellow was made with my new Inktense blocks.  Oh, it is such a vibrant yellow!

 

 

 

 

 

 

My yellow Souffle pen made the doodle circles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The red smears called for words and these are the 2 I have been thinking about today.  Just the black looked too blah.  When I traced it with the yellow Souffle pen I was pleased.

 

 

 

 

 

As I look at the work by artists I admire, it is often the little touches that make their work so powerful.  I was amazed at what a simple thing, like outlining the words, did to the page.  Do you have any little touches you add to your pages?

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