Monday, June 24, 2019

Summer Solstice
June 21st was a lovely New England day. I worked on pp 113-14 in Art Journal 2019 
The tag is made using Dina Wakley's Collage Collective page.  
The ribbon is from my stash.     

The flower is of scraps glued onto a water color index card; it represents the beautiful peonies in my garden.


      Here are the two together.


 Page 114 has a tag made of scrapbooking paper, with scraps  woven into it.The right side is a tangle pattern
 
which also is under the tag. 
 I have text planned for the this page, somehow to capture all the fabulous complexities of the season.

Thursday, June 20, 2019

June's rainy days.....


and gardening days

Celebrating spring days with a stamp 
  
INSPIRATION........exists, but has to find you working...
 I added space (a page) with an old library card taped on the watercolor page. The dark frame is from a 2019 calendar page from Dawn...the quote especially accurate for me. I do find my best ideas come while I'm working.

I've been using both the grouping of four dots and the weaving tangles as backgrounds. 

Sunday, June 2, 2019

June 2, 2019
It's been almost a month since I posted any pictures - a wet, cool month. We haven't set up the pool yet!!
I have been working on Art Journal 2019, but my camera pooped out, so I've been scanning individual pages.


p. 95 began with a card

and changed as the card flipped up where I added the umbrella and some pictures of my garden

p. 97
           


                 page 97 is for the many rainy days - one of my favored motifs, not really a yin-yang, but nested raindrops looking like paisley shapes 
p.100
I used a stencil for the squares on a watercolor shipping tag, then cut squares to fit from a piece of scrap booking paper. I enhanced some of the outlines and added dots in various patterns with a green jelly roll pen
The bleeding hearts in my garden were looking so nice (they thrive on the cool wet weather), I decided to collage  representations, one on white the other on black...