Today's post is about Psalm 22 in which the psalmist describes pain and suffering which foretells the death of Jesus.
I was really struggling to find how I was going to produce a journal page for this and was amazed to find Microsoft clipart images in Publisher that I could use. I turned the image through 90 degrees and added the nail clipart and the words.
Do have a look back through the posts on the Glimpses of Jesus blog where you will find links to other people's art and poetry.
I did a Sketchbook challenge in February which I managed to complete. And I wrote about what I learned through the challenge.
I tried again with the April one but got distracted and so set about the June one with some hesitation. The theme for June is Journey.
I decided I would use an exercise in Kim Thittichai's book Experimtental Textiles to get me started. It's called The Journey and you draw with several thicknesses of brush and some black acrylic paint.
Day 1: My picture is the journey of a river.
Then using L shaped cards to frame areas on the picture you trace sections.
Day 2: Sections from the picture above
Day 3: A couple of sections scanned into the computer and manipulated.
Day 4: A section traced with parts left out to make a different image
Day 5: Another section traced with parts left out to make a different image
Day 6: Yesterday's drawing enlarlged on the computer
Day 7: The same section drawn out in repeating patterns
Day 8: The image on the left taken and refdrawn to be a square image
Day 9: One of the repeating patterns coloured in with Inktense crayons
Then I got sidetracked by the weekend at Art from the Heart that I told you about in this post. And since then I have been painting the pages in another sketchbook.
On Saturday I visited a textile exhibition locally and saw a couple of ideas for other sketchbooks. Watch this space!
Last weekend I went to Yorkshire - known to the locals as God's Own Country. I was going to a weekend class with Dyan Reaveley at Art from the Heart. I decided that rather than sit in a traffic jam on the M1 on Friday afternoon I would drive up in the morning and visit York. I left the car at a Park & Ride and took the bus into the city centre.
I have been to York before so I concentrated on visiting Fairfax House which I hadn't been to before but had seen on the television.
Unfortunately there was a ban on photography in the house but I did manage to sneak this one of the window on the main staircase.
I went for a boat trip on the river.
And saw about 50 or more geese going for a walk.
Then it was off to the hotel in Harrogate, dinner and the start of the workshop on Friday evening. The workshop was called 'Expanding the Page' and was described as being 'Not for the faint hearted!'
At the start we were given one of Dyan's square journals and we were off - tearing pages out as a starter! And then cutting a wavy line on several pages which produces this effect:
We didn't add the paint until the next day.
Over the weekend Dyan introduced us to old favourites and new techniques, showing us how she works when she starts a new journal.
We had a great time chatting, discussing, laughing, eating and oh yes - painting and spraying pages. We also cut things out, pasted them in, and generally just played. We weren't allowed to think about what each page might be. The whole point was to have as many pages as possible having a background with random things stuck on so that whenever I want to journal I can just open up the book and journal.
On Monday and Tuesday I carried on with the pages - painting those I hadn't managed at the weekend, doodling and generally playing.
I took these two pages out because I wasn't very enamoured with them
And I stuck one or two pages in the journal together because I didn't like them at all. I expect I could have gessoed over them but I didn't.
Here's a flip through my journal.
I bought another square journal and I hope to make another one using all the same techniques and principles but using other colours.
