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.
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What a fabulous collage, and the colors are so vibrant. What have you written in your journal? the technique used in making it?
ReplyDeleteThank 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)
ReplyDeleteRobin 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.
ReplyDeleteHi Monica. I understand about the outdoor sketching. I need a quite space and lot of time to work things out.
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Thank goodness it's not mosquito season yet!
ReplyDeleteLOL Carole! I agree :O)
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic--love the pear over pear over pear.
ReplyDeleteUps--I forgot a pear.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hallie. I guess I got a little carried away. I think my pear theme is over for awhile.
ReplyDeleteYou did an awesome job with your journal. I smiled when you opened it to reveal the cut pear!
ReplyDeletepears are my favourite fruit and even more so having gazed at your journal- wonderful
ReplyDeleteThank you WBA, I'm glad I made you smile :O)
ReplyDeleteThanks Ester. I love pears too, they are my kitchen theme. They are everywhere. I think I need to move on to birds now >v<
ReplyDeleteHow articulate you are Eva, this is a fabulous job, very inspiring!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your nice comments, Padmaja
ReplyDeleteBeautiful 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.
ReplyDeleteThank 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.
ReplyDeleteHi there! I had to change my blog and lost all my followers. I would love to have you back
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I LOVE this. I have been working on a art journal, but its not as kool as this! Very creative!
Thank you Melanie and of course I will check out your new blog and follow it.
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ReplyDeleteLoved 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
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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