I find I am going long stretches at the moment between creating any art. Life is just getting in the way too much plus I am also still (!) a little wiped out by that post-viral fatigue thing. I am a happier, more balanced person when I have regular doses of art time so this is not a good state of affairs. All I have just about manage to keep up with is cracking open my art journal about once a week, usually on the weekend. I need to eke out a decent chunk of art time soon. I am getting artsy-antsy.
Last week’s Art Journal Adventure prompt was Love/Hate since it was Valentines Week. I happen to loathe Valentine’s Day but I decided to go with the love them rather than the hate option. Let’s focus on the positive. My starting point was to adhere a Valentines theme paper napkin left over from my preschool class party onto the page to create the repeated pattern of love hearts. Then the page sat like that for days since I could not find the time. My original plan was to draw a figure on the page and do some sort of negative shape painting shebang and, if you look closely, you can still see the pencil marks since I could not erase them. I decided to be pragmatic about my available free time so I instead chose to paint a beetle so that it could be a Love Bug. It does not show up at all well in the photograph but I used pearlescent and metallic paints in order to suggest the shiny carapace of a beetle.
It is not a great art journal page by any measure but it isn’t one that makes me want to tear the page out of the book or gesso over it either. Fingers crossed that I can find a bit more time for art in the next week or so.
I really love this bug art Laura. It will be inteesting to see how you make the changes.
Thank you. I have to keep reminding myself that even five minutes here and there can lead to the creation of an art journal page. I often tell myself I don’t have enough time to achieve something because five minutes seems too little but it is still worth sitting down and slapping some paint around.
I agree, when I was working, I still gave myself 10 min in the morning before work and I was surprised what I got done.
Thank you for sharing that encouraging information.
I like it. Especially that nice pinky red color.
Thanks! I guess I actually made some grungy layering work on this piece.
Nothing grungy about it. I think it’s clear and bright, I love it.
Thank you!