February 23, 2013 The night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness” ~Virginia Woolf
The birds here are cold this morning and waiting for the warmth of the sun to help them get their songs started.
Truthfully? I wasn't sure there was going to BE a decent sunrise photograph this week. I'm ashamed to say that I had no faith - I should have known better. God is in control of the sunrises and he WILL be glorified, when and where HE chooses. Hello, sunrise. Good morning, God.
Our assignment this past week was to create an art journal.
I'm not an artist. I don't draw, and I don't see art in my head. I love to scrapbook because it allows me to create a beautiful art project with limited artistic skill.
I had a good go at it, and more importantly, I had LOADS of fun. My whole journal, however, ended up looking like a 6th grade art project. I kept hearing, "it's YOUR art..." and, well, I DO teach 6th grade...
I'm pretty sure I'll get kicked this week. I'm not kidding when I tell you that I really, REALLY did not have clue ONE about what I was doing. And the other projects were SO incredible, it's fair I should go...
I have to say, though, that this will probably be something I'll continue to play with because it really IS a lot of fun, and since I'm not a card maker, I might as well be an art journalist.
This was one of three page spreads I did. It was my favorite of the week, so I figured I'd load it and share it here.
I mean - it's ART, right?
The sand is bead gel with paint. The bricks are modeling paste with metallic paint. The wind - that's just a doodle around a mask with some stickles to bling it up a bit. The water is done with a scallop punch and layers of paper. The sailboat is some paper piecework. I used a clip art shape as a model and some old canvas paper for the sails. The wave is a chippie, colored with some Lindy's Mist. I do love Lindy and her mists! The clouds are gesso. And yes, that's a toothpick you see on the bow of that boat.
If you want to see what a REAL art journal looks like, go take a peek in the Week 5 Contest Gallery at Swirlydoos. There are some AMAZING projects over there.
Swirlydoos Ultimate Design Challenge - Week 5 Gallery
This is my DT reveal for this week's Nuts About Sketches. Awesome sketch - perfect to play with that sunset image and these wonderful old papers from BoBunny's Forever Fall line.
It's also week 4 of my Project 52 for 2013. Yeah, I know. I'm behind. A lot. But with sunsets like this one on my doorstep, who can blame me?
I'm also going to submit this to the Hoarders Challenge on Scrapbook Dot Com. The papers are from BoBunny - Forever Fall line. I bought them to do up a Blessing Book for 2011. I ended up using something else, so these papers have just been sitting in my stash.I've also been hoarding the text rub-on for well over a year, possibly longer. I've had it so long I've forgotten just when and where I found it. I've been waiting for the perfect photo to use it with. This one was it.The dragonfly bling - that was a left over piece of an old bling flourish - I couldn't bear to toss it out. I thought, "you know, I bet I can use that one of these days..." I've had it a LONG time. The last layout I used black bling flourishes was on a couple of layouts in June 2010 (My Girls and Beautiful). So this piece is at LEAST that old.
Thanks for sharing my porch view with me!
