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I decided to art journal again. I think I need to. I have some "issues" I need to work through and art journaling is the very very best way to do that! My friend Lani, over in 14 secrets has been following the "occupy" movement, and then yesterday, she threw out the prompt of "what will you occupy?" Or, what will occupy you? Since, I am kind of at a cross roads of what kind of art I will be doing next, I thought I would start my art journaling re-entry with this prompt. Thanks, Lani, for the prompt! It is an interesting idea...something to mull around and play with mentally, as well as creatively.
Last year, I spent lots of time art journaling. I prepped pages in several journals with gesso, and some random color...using up left overs from other projects. Some days I just added random words or collage snippets. Once I had located one of these journals, I sketched in the face because the last entry had a self portrait with the words, what do you do on a cold gray day? A portrait of course. I did not want to spend the time noodling with a self portrait per se, so I just quickly sketched in the face, painted it with acrylics, collaged things from a box of ripped out images from various sources, using my 2" punch to isolate the images I wanted to use. I have my mom, a swallow image, myself, and a couple of other ones there. I wrote occupy with oil pastels, added some detail with a dark/shadow drawing pencil. I probably will go back to this and develop it more someday. I found the pre prepped pages to be very dry after six months or so, and I really liked the feel of them to work on.
Hope you all are having a great month!
5 comments:
An interesting question Carole!
What a great idea. And a wonderful page. Has me thinking.
I love these journal pages. They're very loose and expressive. Beautiful and fun works.
My immediate thought was my mom running around town with rollers covered with a scarf when I was little. Like visual journaling, we take hot topics, let them cool down, roll them out, and restyle them to our liking.
"Occupy" is the word of the year, according to one linguist interviewed on National Public radio today. I love the idea of "occupying oneself" as a kind of political activity. Beauty, re-creation, silence, etc. A good question for this time of year, too.
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