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?

I’ve been visiting sites through Paint Party Friday links and decided it was time to join in the fun.  Since November is  also Art Every Day Month over at Creative Every Day I decided to jump into a larger canvases this month.    This one is 24×18 which was a big shift for me from my art journals.

Started with random squiggles and started to fill them in with paint.

Didn’t like how it was going – so I started spraying with water and letting it drip.  Now I started to like it!

More color and drips.  Then some white Sharpie words.

A few stencils and spray inks.  The circles and flowering tree are from Crafter’s Workshop.  The fluer de lis I made using a craft punch.  Used the Tulip Fabric Paint Canon so I could get more of a spray paint look without the fumes.

The dark blue circles were from a dixie cup run through a glob of extra paint that was starting to dry out.

Black Sharpie words.  I love lots of words.  Still working to like my handwriting, but it will be buried in layers.

Using plaster gauze I created an umbrella.  Just a bit of texture to add depth.  I am impatient so I didn’t let it dry/cure all the way.   An hour under bright lights and I was ready to go!

Started with the yellow umbrella, but it looked different on the canvas than I anticipated.

Added white raindrops.  Liked them on the background but the umbrella still wasn’t right to me.

The white droplets needed a little sparkle.  So I used a glue stick and foil to add a grungy touch of silver.

When I started with the black I intended to cover all the yellow, but the bits peeking through made me happy!  You can see some of the silver sparkling but the photo doesn’t show how it changes as you walk past it and light reflects off of it.  Really like metallics!