SP Wednesday, musings...

Decided to play in my journal today after pulling a few photos out to do a SP entry. I keep the photos simple and cheap for my journals - inkjet on plain paper, nothing fancy. I do admit that I'm not one for self-portraits and so they are a bit of a challenge for me.

However, I'm on a mission right now to try out at least 1 or 2 new journaling ideas each week leading up to the Mixed Media Journaling class I'm teaching here locally in July. I want to have some solid techniques to share with my students.


'self-portrait', 10x10 journal

Evolution of the page: I'm always amazed when a page starts to come to life on its own, especially when I have nothing particular in mind for it. I have been very introspective lately and pondering many things so that's why I think those past, present, future 'balloons' popped up. The white blocks were stenciled in and are perfect for adding text, I'll get to that another day...

Why don't you join us over at Misty Mawn's blog for her SP wednesdays? I'm finally getting in on this weekly challenge - only took me three months to get around to it :>

Have a great week y'all!

Self-portrait challenge - Pattern IV

My very first self-portrait challenge! Finally submitting for the pattern challenge even though it's in the last week. It took a lot of self-coaxing to do this, even though I'm really getting into photography and snapping pics of everyone and everything around me, I don't like ones with me in them, never mind ones that feature me in any way. It's kind of hard to explain I guess :)

I've been attracted to patterns all my life, nature and manmade. I'm fascinated with them - the play of light and shadow, the positive & negative spaces they create, the repetitiveness and all the many, wonderful shapes.

Finding a pattern that I was drawn to for this challenge wasn't hard, I'm out here most days in the summer months. I loved the depth created here from the shadows of the lattice diamonds against the pattern of the patio blocks























Since I started journalling my self-discovery through art this year, I've also come to realize that my life has been a series of patterns too - both positive and negative. I'm embracing the positive ones, and working on eliminating the negative ones.