Whenever I start a challenge like the 365, my emotions run
the gamut. In the beginning, I’m really
excited about it, and I look forward to each day’s challenge. By the middle, I’m starting to wonder what I
got myself into, and then it turns into, “When is this going to be over?” Amazingly, once I get to the end, I’m look
back and think to myself, “Did I really do all that?”
Since our 365 is a long challenge, I know that many of you
may be already in the “What did I get myself into” phase. Hang in there! We may still have a long way to go, but I do
promise that there will be more times when you are excited about each day’s
challenge. It’s a lot like a roller coaster,
and if you just keep working the prompts, you will get to the end and say, “Did I really do all that?”
So are you ready to dig into another week? Here we go:
- I would like to return to
- Someone once told me
- What gives me hope?
- I would like to be remembered for…
- Family
- If I were an animal, I would be…
- Use a newspaper article or current event on tv as your prompt
Here are some of the pieces I did this week:
Day 22: Worry
I tried my hand at drawing
again. I still have mixed feelings about
the results. I found a picture in a
magazine of a woman posed like this and drew from that. Although I think I fairly accurately sketched
a person with a worried expression, my woman doesn’t even come close to looking
like the woman in the photograph. I wish
I could figure out why.
Day 23: I recommend
I hate to say it, but this one is
sort of unfinished. The prompt made me think of the healing
powers of faith, so I started out by drawing symbols of faith and I was
planning to do some kind of zentangle-ish thing with that, but it just never
quite evolved. Eventually, I added some
other objects and decided to fill the page with other symbols, but I ran out of
things I thought I could draw. I haven’t
decided where to go with it from here.
That’s okay…art journaling isn’t necessarily about finishing a page every day, and it’s actually pretty common for
artists to revisit past pages to add a little here or change something
there. An art journal is a work in
progress.
Day 24: Negative anagram of your
name (faults and vices)
I went with a more scrapbook feel for this prompt simply
because I couldn’t find an example of what I was wanting to do with it. Several days earlier, I had been surfing the
web and found some really cool art journal examples. On one, the artist had done some cool 3–D
zentangle-type art with the words and then filled up the page with other
stuff. I wanted to see if I could do
that. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the
sample again, and I can’t remember enough to try and replicate it, so I went
with something I do know…scrapbooking.
The words were a little hard. I’m
not happy with the Y, but it was the best I could do.
Day 25: Define grown up
I think this page turned out
better than I hoped. I had the dress
stamp and the “bug hat”, which I just bought, so I was excited to try drawing
the rest of the girl around those stamps.
I started out by stamping the dress in Staz-on ink and then using a
Sharpie to draw the rest of her body. I
masked the area with the quote and then stamped the other images on the
page. I used water colors for the
background, and my Stampin’ Up! markers for most of the rest. I did color the girl’s hair and clothing with
Copics. Unfortunately, I forgot that
Copics and Sharpies don’t mix and it bled a little where I colored her shoe.
Day 26: Rules are meant to be
broken
I had a lot of fun doing this
page. The background was a scrap that I
had pre-sprayed with Tattered Angels a few days earlier when I was testing a
few things out. The rulers were scraps
of patterned paper I had used on some scrapbook pages a while back and the
little quote was a piece I had in my smash book box. I found the picture of the sheriff on the
internet and printed him out.
Day 27: I will
There’s been a lot of clues about
my power word lately, both on my art
pages and here on this blog. This page
is made of sales flyers and magazine cut-outs as well as some die-cut letters
made from a page I tore out of the book.
The background images were all stamped using Memento ink and an
assortment of tiny stamps.
Day 28: By the numbers
This page didn’t turn out anything
like I expected. I started out trying to
clear emboss on the page so that certain areas (the numbers) would resist the
ink rubbing. Unfortunately, my embossing
pen wasn’t really clear – it left a bluish tint behind, and when I heated the
embossing powder on it, it just turned dark and made the paper look oily. So I wound up coloring over the numbers with
white pen.
That’s it for this week.
I hope you’re hanging in there!
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