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Monday, May 23, 2011

Journal Extensions


Last week Roz’s assignment in the Strathmore Visual Workshop Course was to add extensions to our pages. I decided to continue with the pear theme. I started with spraying the background with watercolor and using stencils for the circles. I cut the page in half and hinged the loose edge with invisible tape to the page below it. I painted the pear with opaque watercolor and collaged the strips and print. The inside background is a combination of all the techniques mentioned above.



The assignment this week is ‘plein air’. This is not really my cup of tea. I may sketch something sitting on my porch sheltered from the sun and onlookers.


21 comments:

  1. What a fabulous collage, and the colors are so vibrant. What have you written in your journal? the technique used in making it?

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  2. Thank you Robin. Yes, that's all I wrote on all of the pages in this journal. I'm not one to record my personal feelings in a journal like this. I did the Artist's Way years ago and immediately destroyed everything I wrote.This blog is the closest thing to personal journaling that I do :O)

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  3. Robin it is fabulous. It just helps me get all kinds of ideas. It was a very interesting class with some good ideas but i am not a sketcher so the last one is not my cup o' tea. Roz is certainly a very detail oriented person, her workshop brims with information.

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  4. Hi Monica. I understand about the outdoor sketching. I need a quite space and lot of time to work things out.
    Eva

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  5. Thank goodness it's not mosquito season yet!

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  6. LOL Carole! I agree :O)

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  7. This is fantastic--love the pear over pear over pear.

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  8. Thanks Hallie. I guess I got a little carried away. I think my pear theme is over for awhile.

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  9. You did an awesome job with your journal. I smiled when you opened it to reveal the cut pear!

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  10. pears are my favourite fruit and even more so having gazed at your journal- wonderful

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  11. Thank you WBA, I'm glad I made you smile :O)

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  12. Thanks Ester. I love pears too, they are my kitchen theme. They are everywhere. I think I need to move on to birds now >v<

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  13. How articulate you are Eva, this is a fabulous job, very inspiring!

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  14. I appreciate your nice comments, Padmaja

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  15. Beautiful again. I love how the pear opens up. See a lot of work went in to this. What a lovely keepsake this journal will be. I have never done an artists journal myself. You make it look like fun.

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  16. Thank you. This is my first art journal. Until now I never would have spent the time creating something like this just for myself. Hopefully it will be something my family will consider a keepsake.

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  17. Hi there! I had to change my blog and lost all my followers. I would love to have you back
    i was free wing watercolour, now im
    http://rabbitholeart.blogspot.com/
    I LOVE this. I have been working on a art journal, but its not as kool as this! Very creative!

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  18. Thank you Melanie and of course I will check out your new blog and follow it.

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  19. Hi Eva
    Loved your first pear one I saw in the Strathmore hournalling workshop but this is even better. Great use of the foldout and mutiple layers.
    Your sense of colour is terrific.

    Elaine

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  20. Thank you Elaine. I still haven't finished the last assignment. Since I am not a journal keeper I need a class or challenge to keep my interest. I miss our classes.

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