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Art journal week 44: Inspiration

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Week 44 of the ukstampers challenge prompt is: Inspiration

  • what or who inspires you?
  • are there certain times or places that give you inspiration?
  • include some inspirational words on your page.

Inspiration comes from many sources such as the web, magazines, bloggers, forums, other art or craft forms, the patterns in nature, geometry, colour, texture and many more.  I  have Kate Cranes DVD, have taken an online course of Traci Bautista’s and follow a few crafty blogs and I am always looking at what people do on you tube.  I think the colours and textures of nature inspires me most.

Paint:  periwinkle, mustard, orange, black and white acrylics
Card:  watercolour paper
Stamp:  Dylusions Beyond the edge
Other:  orange oil pastel, white and black pens, cool shadow copic pen, computer generated words, letters cut from a magazine

Art journal week 43: Sociable

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Week 43 of the ukstampers challenge prompt is: Sociable

  • Are you a sociable person?  Do you like the company of lots of people or prefer small gatherings?  Can you do small talk?
  • Can you amuse yourself, do you like your own company?
  • include some kind of invite on your page.

I do spend a lot of time by myself and manage to fill my day – I don’t understand these people who say they have nothing to do as there is always something to do and there is never enough time to do it all (which is why I am behind in these weekly journal pages).  Being in the seated position all of the time I find social gatherings where people are all standing around conversing 2 feet above me very tiresome.  Not only do I have to strain my neck looking up all of the time but I strain my ears trying to hear what they are saying.  This usually leads to me just nodding and smiling graciously and wondering what on earth they were talking about then going off to the kitchen, if I am not hemmed in, to find some food.  I am reasonably au fait at small talk but don’t ask me to do any public speaking or I will run a mile – so to speak.

Paint:  I did the background ages ago but I think I used white and rust acrylic paint
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Stampin up Cheer and wishes, home made foam stamps Squares
Other:  grey and rust oil pastels, mesh