When 
newport2newport invited me for a virtual art play date I knew almost at once what I was going to do. I'm working on my vision journal and I was going to work on the second page which I can see, somewhat, in my head. But alas the backgrounds on the second pages are a horrible color and had to be Gessoed over and repainted. So I'm still waiting before I can work on it.
Instead, I thought I'd share the cover of the vision journal and the evolution of it, though I will say that I am tempted to redo it. I don't like the pink. Sigh.
I started with a yellow background and some pictures of me. I wanted pictures that made me feel good about me and I liked the way the layout happened.
Then I got the bright idea to put a border around it all. I should have stopped her and put down a different color. Green maybe. I still might.
I tried to soften the pink with white crayon. Then I added the title. I should have tried to mix paint to that deeper pink for the frames. That might have been better.
I decided to add some yellow fibery stuff that I liked.
I decided to outline the letters in black but then I needed to connect the black so I put the black dots on the pink frames.
This journal is sketch pad that where I built up the pages with collage of magazine pages then I painted over them. Because I wanted to do all the backgrounds at once, I took the wire out of the spiral then, once they were all painted, I wove some gold cord back through the holes. I added a couple of flowers and then called it done.
But I am really thinking about tearing off the yellow fringe and repainted the frames something else.
newport2newport invited me for a virtual art play date I knew almost at once what I was going to do. I'm working on my vision journal and I was going to work on the second page which I can see, somewhat, in my head. But alas the backgrounds on the second pages are a horrible color and had to be Gessoed over and repainted. So I'm still waiting before I can work on it. Instead, I thought I'd share the cover of the vision journal and the evolution of it, though I will say that I am tempted to redo it. I don't like the pink. Sigh.
I started with a yellow background and some pictures of me. I wanted pictures that made me feel good about me and I liked the way the layout happened.
| From Vision Journal |
| From Vision Journal |
| From Vision Journal |
| From Vision Journal |
| From Vision Journal |
| From Vision Journal |
There are so many stories only you can tell.Tell them, please.
Who am I?I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams. The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go. I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my friends than to believe in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.
Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.
Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find. A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.
Who am I? A motivational speaker, writing instructor, workshop leader and full-time follower of dreams.
Who am I? Read and find out.
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analagous colors always look good together, yellow and yellow-red, and red or yellow and yellow-green and green or any three colors next to each other on the color wheel but they can't skip colors.
or try adding other tints(colors mixed with white): yellow and white, red and white, blue and white. Keeping something all to tints makes it pastel like
or complementary colors vibrate next to each other and demand attention: yellow and purple
or Primary colors that are in your face for attention gathering, red, yellow and blue
Or monochromatic: all shades of yellow, butterscotch, wheat, pale yellow, brown-yellow, etc. yellows and various browns look particularly good together
Melodye, but it's not a first draft, is the problem. It's more like a 6th draft that lost its way. It's hard for me to move forward until I get this one more like I want it. I'm going to take it apart and see where I can go with it while the paint dries on the next set of pages.
Thanks for sharing,
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