Thursday, January 15, 2015

Art Journaling, Selfies and the Power of the Pen





normally
in January, I post every journal entry of my
art journal, all 12 two page entries..

this year however, I decided that I would
just catch you up with
my pages... 


since I am woefully behind...


Je Suis Charlie... My first ink pen..



and since I missed three months due to
packing and moving
and the unfortunate flooding...


I thought I would share with you
the cover and frontispiece of  my journal...

and if you have been following my blog..








you will remember that I got this 
journal some years back at a flea market...
it was in great shape









and has enough pages for anther year..
and I still have not 
started the cover, but that will come in good time..

November pages below...
about allowance and going with the flow...







ingredients: walnut ink resist on book pages, gesso, acrylic ink, colored pencil, paper ephemera, chalk  pen, pencil.





Detail from November pages, Caterina Giglio



December was very busy...
travel and new beginnings...
holidays and welcoming 
a new grand baby..

a joyous month...



December journal pages, Caterina Giglio

ingredients: transfers on gesso and painted pages, wrapping papers and ephemera, pencil, stabilo pencils, and cardboard



Detail December journal pages... Caterina Giglio



December was filled with good food, chocolate and champagne..
my one weakness..



Detail December pages, Caterina Giglio




and 
January brought us
hopeful thoughts
of a bright future...

so
we were all stunned by the murders
in 
Paris...

My January pages have traditionally been marked with my self portrait..
and this year was no different..
but I dug through my boxes to find
the first ink pen 
I bought as a teen..
and gave it a prominent place..






ingredients: French paper ephemera, writing paper ephemera, watercolor paper, Stabilo pencils, colored pencils pencil


sketching from a photo I had taken
I realized as I was collaging the French papers to the page
that I was wearing my gigli
know also as a French Fleur De Lis..

we must
remember always..
the pen 
is
mightier than the sword...




below my 2013
self portrait...








and my 2014 Self Portrait...





"The face is a mirror and the eyes without speaking confess 
the secrets of the heart.."

St. Jerome



xo