A Year In The Life of An Art Journal
February 28th
THE PROMPT: I'm Beautiful
THE SONG: Real Love by Regina Spektor
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: Self-portrait
I should say first that I purposely edited out a personal photo. I'm not quite ready to share images of myself or my husband (although I will share deeply personal art work!). I took a long time to work on this one - I didn't know what I wanted to say, and I think I kept editing myself instead of just jumping in.
I started by building up the background with paint, and then stamping the phrase "all i really was doing was waiting for you" from the song. I was experimenting with using medium on photographs, and slathered two photos with a heavy medium and peeled off the backing. It took forever, but looks really cool when done. I used this technique on the two shadow images on the right. More paint, words, writing.
Ultimately, this journal page ended up stating that I always felt like I was waiting for my husband. He makes me feel good, loved, beautiful even.
March 15th
THE PROMPT: Confidence Shot
THE SONG: Strut by Adam Lambert
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: eye shadow
Oh I love this one. My art journal is an altered book: on this page, there was a scene of a cobbled street that I didn't want to cover up, so when priming the page, I left it uncovered. I searched for an image that portrayed "strut" and ended up choosing an image from a magazine with a woman running. I smothered the image in heavy medium, removed its backing and was left with this glowing image. I placed that over the street. I played around with more paint, words, writing. I added one line from "Strut": let the freedom begin. And the eye shadow - I actually used some to shade the edges of the pages. I have this great phrase from a magazine: (IM)PERFECT - I added a quote to change it to (I'M)PERFECT.
All together, I guess I am saying that running is my confidence shot. It makes me feel like I'm going somewhere, it makes me feel strong, and it helps me get my thinking together, so I can move forward in my non-running life too.
creative Therapy: 129
What is a family keepsake you have or hope to have?
I had a hard time with this one too, layering on paint and then finally realizing what I wanted to say. I initially thought I would want to be the keeper of the photographs. But as I thought of it more, I realized I wanted really to be the carrier of the stories, the elder who passed down the legends of our family.
I stamped "once upon a time", added transferred images that I applied matte medium to -- I chose an b&w image (it transferred so beautifully), an image of toys in front of books, a photograph book and a person. I used this image of the person to link the whole page together, drawing these climbing vines all over to indicate the web of family, stories, histories.
These are beautiful!!!
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