{Thought I was over over over birds, guess not.}
Making an effort to show you how pages progress. Here are a couple more spreads I'm still playing on. I liked the spread shown in the last post so much that I didn't want to work on it yet, so I skipped that page. Sometimes I'll leave a page that I like alone for a long time.
Also, someone asked what I do with ugly pages. I never cut pages out of a journal. I always have pages that I don't like. Truly, the point of my visual journals is to play. My other journals have other purposes, but for me, my visual journals, art journals, whatever you want to call them, are for PLAY. Experimentation, exploration, attempts, ideas both good and bad. Of course, I am critical of what I make. But other than saying, "yuk, that didn't end up going somewhere I care to go again", I don't think about it too much longer. Because it doesn't matter. Even though I don't like it, it served it's purpose, I learned something. I don't care if other people look at them when paging through my journals, I figure people understand the purpose they serve for me and don't judge them. One example is the bottom spread on the last spread of the last post. (huh? it makes sense if you read it again) I don't care for it, but I just turn the page and play on. On the other hand, sometimes I keep working on them; I'll paint over them, collage over them, write over them and sometimes I do end up liking them after that.
The above photos are close ups of these journal spreads:
I'll keep showing you these pages as they progress, next time without so much blathering on about them. However, if you do want to hear me blather on about how I play on these type pages, you can sign up for the wishstudio's wish*full virtual art retreat. I'll be going on and on about it there, and you can play along.
