Art is the Answer

 I'm still working on my final journal for my Letter Love 101 class.  Joanne wanted us to do a page with this particular quote, and I decided that since it summed up the class so well I'd put it on the back cover.

Because I love using recycled book pages to achieve that extra layer of text and texture, I wrote the quote on a piece of such paper which I had first painted using watercolours.

I'm especially excited about the flower petals on this piece. Months ago I had used round stickers (cut from a sheet of address labels, using a circle punch ) as masks on fabric when I was doing some surface design.  I loved the random colour that ended up on the paper circles so I stuck them to a piece of freezer paper to keep them for "some future project".  We'll, that day had come! I added a bit of sketching with a Pitt pen to draw in the leaves and stems.

This wonderful quote came from Pippa, one of my Letter Love classmates (and a new follower of my blog).  Thanks Pippa.  I love it.

Take a look at the second line of text on this page.    I had made a mistake so I covered it with another piece of that painted, recycled book and rewrote the words.  When an eraser won't work, figure something else out. There's always a way to 'fix' a problem!  And, because I can't let anything go, the grid lines on this page are the tiny bits of torn off paper left because I had wanted torn edges on the page in yesterday's post.

Thanks for your visit today.

Black Backgrounds=A Whole New Look

Today I decided to combine a couple of the lessons in Letter Love 101.  I used black gesso to cover the pages in my Letter Love journal and then I pulled out all of the pens I had that would show up on the black.  The first page page uses the coloured pens (mostly Sakura Gelly Roll pens in metallic and glitter, and Sargent Art Liquid Metal markers).  I love the colours of the Sargent Art Liquid Metal markers and they were only $3.79 for the box of 6 at Curry's.

On this page I used only white on black.  My favourite white marker is the Sakura Gelly Roller (med) because it gives a great line and flows really well.  The Pentel Correction pen is good too, but it's harder to get as consistent a line as you get with the Sakura pen.