How afraid are we?

 First page is a Dina style abstract collage, with paint removal on top of gesso. In the older watercolor journal by Canson. Trying to finish all of these half filled journals.

Next page is in a new 8.5x11 inch Dylusions journal (don't yell at me!). This is a technique I wanted to try from Gulfsprite. I drew the girl and flowers with leaves first in graphite, then did a wash of light green acrylic paint around the girl and over the pencil lines for the background. The rest is all Daniel Smith watercolors. Now I know that I need to lay down a wash of a light neutral acrylic, like Antique White, on the girl's face and neck, because dang, this worked like a charm. Seals the paper so it doesn't get funky from too much water, yet the watercolor glided on perfectly. You can see that the girl's cheeks are not blended well due to too many layers of watercolors, and the paper was saturated. 

Next is acrylic paint and collage in the same journal. I had a different background that once I did the girl I hated, so it became black. No more ripping out pages. The Gulfsprite group yelled at me in a kindly fashion. I took it to heart. "There is always gesso" is the new motto. Or black paint.

The smaller Dylusions flip journal was used to clean off brushes, and I just went with the flow and made it a double page abstract. The heart was left over from some other project, so I tried a new stamp for some texture. That is one in the Tim Holtz wallpaper remnants set. Going to be a fun set to use.

Tree is the hard maple in my backyard. Every season I think it's giving up the fight, but it keeps coming back. By the way, my form of exercise is doing squats all day long to pick up the leaf pieces that come in on the dogs. Jake's fur is like a magnet. I still can't run a vacuum, so it's this or a crunchy house. Yes, I am nuts, and no, I am not buying a Roomba. I can use my Kirby November 1st. By then I will have glutes of steel.....vote.....vote......vote. It is too damn scary not to. Vote! Linda