Shared this and other pages at OPEN STUDIO this afternoon.
I worked on this page yesterday, since I was unable to go to work -had a doctor's appointment about the fracture in my knee !

 

I wrote a selection of ideas from Art Journal summer issue on post-its and scattered them throughout my date book. Yesterday's said to do a page half in text and half image.

 

 

September twelfth, 2013

One year and one day after the nightmare in NYC,DC, AND PA.

Rain's steady beat punctuated by now distant thunder.

A crow caws persistently; a single tree frog chirps timidly.

Wounds heal.

What have we learned?

My knee problems have forced me to be sedentary, and have been doing some fun art work.

I splattered watercolors, then created a doodle art ATC and attached it.

 sprayed with inks


I like the Journal page (the top image)  so much - doing it and looking at it - that I decided to dedicate a whole sketchbook to similar work. I've been spraying pages using stencils, and masks, and creating a stack of cards with tangled doodle art.

I made the spiral, hand and leaf stencils, the other is a plastic thing that was on a laptop/keyboard.
OPEN STUDIO , September 14th, 1- 4:00.

 

feeling punky and lame

I am happy with this 2 page spread.

On this page, I glued a page from the Playbill for Blue Man Group to cover much of the page. The middle has two scraps left from a page from a book, with some paint dribbles. Then I wrote how I was feeling tired and icky, just needing some art-time, in a wonky, rectangular spiral.

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 This side has some strips of Washi tape covered by the word silk, from the postcard from New England Quilt Museum's exhibit. Then I wove some scraps from the printing I did for journal covers and end papers. One paper is a rice paper, and I found the ink pen left little dots at the beginning and end of each letter where I wrote "kind of crabby" (it's upside down).

 

starting journals Open Studio in July

My photos on cardstock for covers...

and on rice paper for end papers. I will stitch in 8 pages which gives me 32 surfaces. I use these as traveling journals and they fit in the back of my regular Art Journals.

AC running in studio, and I have company

left to right.....Buck Wheat is 5 and 1/2 , Deezel is 200 lbs and 4 and 1/2.

Here are some starting pages in ART JOURNAL 2013 Vol. II

The pocket on the left is a parchment envelope from an advertisement with sharpie. I doodled and splattered watercolors for the table of contents page. Lettering is with Micron Pigma

The squares on the left are from a New England Quilt Museum postcard. It struck me that they look like kites, and pay tribute to the many cultural groups of Lowell.

marks a day spent at Quilt Museum in Lowell



water color splotches and doodles around a repurposed library card

two more pictures of daylilies

I got the shot I wanted for watercolors...

 

and picked some for closer study...

 

should inspire a poem !

 

 

yellow throat, five curled

petals, summer blossoms' hue

previews autumn's glow