MessyJessyCreatesArt

As I sat and thought about all of my wishes and dreams for this lesson, I noticed that they all had to do with being happy- me, my family, my situation, etc.  So the theme for my piece is "Take a Voyage to your Happy Place". I love the background because I used lots of modeling paste and sparkle watercolors and spray inks and such.  Hope you like it !  Oh, and the Hula girl is me..... someday..... when I make it to Hawaii.... that would make me happy :-)

Well, with crappy internet and a messed up computer, here is what I came up with for my lesson this week.... First, I used one color sharpie to write down my my fears, another for my worries, and another for things that make me angry. Then, I used a layer of gesso to cover those bad boys up :-) Next, I collaged the sillouette of the strong woman with images that represented me. After that I used watercolor crayons, stencils and sprays to create the background. Last, I typed out the words and used gel medium to put the piece all together. The words that I chose were from a journaling prompt from Effy the Wild's class "Moonshine Summer". I wrote a love letter to myself and I thought that would be great to cover up the worries, doubts and anger issues I had :-) Anyway, here it is..... taaadaa!

Chapter 2 still looks at photos to tell a story but we look in the past.  The writing focused on the senses.  I chose my favorite photo of myself as a child and wrote about what I imagine using all of my 5 senses plus the 6th sense of "knowing" to write my piece of poetry. I will try to post close up photos of the pic and the poem when my computer and internet decide to behave  :-)

The overall question is "Who are you?"  The first thing I did was answer the questions on paper.  Then I started thinking about my art journal spread......hmmmmm The first thing that popped into my mind was Horton who is listening for the answers...... So here is my spread :-)

currently at  https://effy-wild.squarespace.com/inner-excavate-along-with-effy/  Effy has a wonderful FREE art journaling project that she is doing with anyone who wants to participate.  It is based on the book "Inner Excavation" and you can find out more about that here  http://www.lizlamoreux.com/inner-excavation/ The first journaling prompts were about using pictures to document your daily life, writing a poem about "I am...", and other things that you can read up on if you are interested.  The book is available for download on Amazon (that's what I did for my Kindle Fire). Here is my cover and my first art journal page.

This class was fun to do with my 7 year old step daughter.  She is learning soooooo much and loves art!  She also thinks it's neat that you can learn from people on the computer from the other side of the world :-)