I started this page by sketching the iced-tea glass on some cheap memo paper because I hadn't been drawing anything and felt a lack of it. I did the drawing in probably a minute and didn't like it. So I didn't have anything to lose by adding some watercolor. Still didn't like it but set it aside to dry. In the morning I sort of liked it (isn't that how it goes?) and grabbed another paper scrap, this time a bit of watercolor paper, and drew my little plastic bowl with Dove Chocolate Easter eggs in it. The color really shows differently on this paper doesn't it? So now what to do with these is the question. I threw them in my journal and didn't look at them for a few days. I ate a couple of Dove chocolates and realized the foils I peeled off them could go with the picture. I adhered the two pictures and the foils to the page but it was lacking something. Aha! I dug the Lipton teabag wrapper out of the trash where I'd just thrown it and added that to the page plus some writing. I'm pretty happy about my page and it's truly a bit of my life here. What do you have laying around to draw and add to your journal?
Great page! I’ve been too busy making the journals to actually use them! LOL
ReplyDeleteIt could be a poster, I think! I was at a collage workshop last weekend, and your page here would have been one of the pieces they oohed and ahhhed over. You have a good, interesting composition here! And fun theme and story to it!
ReplyDeleteI like this approach! art is everywhere.
ReplyDeleteA really appealing picture! Love the way it makes art out of everyday life.
ReplyDeleteAnd what a lovely page you made! I hope you rewarded yourself with a few more chocolates...!
ReplyDeleteI love this, Timaree! It's so creative and engaging!!! Do more!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I'm sure that you'll remember every little moment that added up to this interesting page.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's an interesting page, and I loved reading how it came about. It gives me hope for those times when I can't think of a thing to draw! Thank you!! nancy
ReplyDeleteI so liked you comment on not drawing days. Sounds likeme. Your flare for mixing things together is fun and light. Hurray for you.
ReplyDeleteThat looks so neat! This is the kind of page that makes me want to begin an art-journal (I'll do it, one day, I will!). What you say about liking better the drawing the nextday, it happens to me often. I think sometimes we have our nose too near from the page to really see it, we only see what it doesn't look like. And the next day we see what it's really like!
ReplyDeleteI did eat a few more chocolates! Than you everyone. Now what do you have in front of you, right now, that you could draw? Yes, it's a challenge!
ReplyDeleteThis page really is a bit of your life....chocolates included!
ReplyDeleteWonderful how things can come together. I put everything (everything that's remotely flat that is) in my journal. And now...now I want to have some chocolate!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great journal page--I love the layering of wrappers and sketches and color. Now you've got a little snapshot of a happy moment in time.
ReplyDeleteI have a page in my art journal that's "chocolate psychology"...that's something like "pop psychology" only different! On it I have glued Dove wrappers - the red and pink ones, inside out, with all the sage wisdom they have to offer! I folded the edges back around each quote, so the colors still appear. It makes me smile! and there's a lot of encouragement there.
ReplyDeleteTimaree why haven't i seen your blog before?! Or maybe I didn't add the "follow" button.. but yay! I love your freestyle! maybe i should try to stick things on mine as well :) i always thought collage wasn't my thing haha but after seeing so many cool stuff I maybe should :P
ReplyDeleteFrom now on i'm keeping an eye on you!
Thankyou afk. Collage is great when it means something. I have a hard time with doing it without meaning. Hope you give it a try.
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