Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Mixed Media Flower Journal





Forgive me,
please..

I know I always post on 
Tuesday..

but yesterday was my birthday...

so I took the day off
well, not exactly..

Off..







because I went to the studio to work on this..
my themed

you may remember the little hand tied journal I made..
and if not, just click the link above..

and as often happens,
the intention I have for a project....
does not seem to be the intention
the project has for itself..
or 
at least part of my intention
does not match..
I am still negotiation color choices..

Part of my
 intention was to journal write the importance that flowers have always had in my life..

as a young child, I remember falling in love with a sunflower.. 
pulling it out of the ground and 
dragging it into the house roots, dirt clods and all ...
  it was so beautiful and I wanted 
to give it to my Mother....


She was aghast and far more concerned with the dirty floor...
 and from that incident.. 
I decided that she
  did not 
love flowers...

in fact, I can never remember her buying a 
single bouquet ..







I promised 
that this year I would just post whatever is going on
in the studio...
so here it is..
bitty peeks into my small
themed journal..
and a snippet of memory from a five year old girl child.



The photo below is not blurry...
it is the opening cover art,
seen 
through the parchment frontispiece 







I am planning to submit the journal
eventually 
but I am NOT thinking I will meet
the current deadline that I have made for myself, because 
I keep ripping up..
the images that I create and 
many things just don't seem to want to live there..







So..
dear reader 
I have decided to give myself more time...
as I work out 
outside of my control
and allow what will be to 
manifest ..

I am in love with the textures,
and 
the 
possibilities...
and this year I want to take more time 
to develop more fully
my ideas..
and my work.







In the studio I am prepping for a new video
on my 
tissue paper technique
that I used
to make the sheer butterflies in
my Naturalists' Notebook 
collection..

I am also working on my January Pages
in my new 2018 art journal..

and contemplating some new portraits..
and you will definitely be in the loop..



Ciao, ciao!