BOD's Mindfulness Spread

This is what 

art in bed looks like.

It's not pretty,

but it's necessary!!!

I tried to walk

without the boot today.

HELL NO!!
So, back to bed....

So below you see my supplies 

for Effy's Book of Days.
um, and some other 
supplies, as well.

   

Below, I am gesso'ing

out the elements in the 

2004 Art Calendar

that I don't 

"feel" for this journal page.

This spread took quite a while.

The subject here is 

all about celebrating what 

I am looking forward to 

in the upcoming year.

Not resolutions!

too much presha!!

At this point, 

I have the

tags journaled 

and stamped, 

but don't have a feel 

for the big picture yet.

Here is where I blogged 

about making the tags.

I have both white gesso

to block out images

and clear gesso to 

protect and provide

tooth for the images 

I do want to keep.

By tooth I mean

getting rid of the slickness

of the calendar page

so I can add layers of paint or ink

or GLITTER!!!!

and those layers will stick.

 

 

 Below, the gesso has dried
and I'm adding 
Adirondak Re-inkers
for color.
This is butterscotch, I think.
I used a paper towel to 
lift off some of the ink 
and that cool pattern was the result.
That's an Effy thing. 
Like shabification.
I have a hard time
with shabification.
I love color.
But, it will happen....

 

I decided to keep the profile of 
the face, the fish eyes
and the owl eyes.
Cuz, well eyes are what
I do for a living.
And seeing is part of 
what is required for
wisdom and art.
Very important.
Below you see the full spread.
I used a paint texture tool
for the lines.
Added some Lettuce re-inker.
So my issue was that 
some of the ink lifted when 
I sealed it with 
matte medium.
I suspected it might,
and Effy confirmed.
I let the first layer of medium dry
and added another to seal.
The second time there was 
very little movement.
I was all worried about it 
and then decided not to 
add anymore wet layers.
Ironic, no? 
teehee.

 

Next stop is adding a

flap with tape.

I ended up just folding 

over a flap and using

heavy gel medium as a glue.

cuz, I didn't have any

masking tape in my bed!!!

teehee.

I used a little pan pastels

to color up 

a stamped heart that is

I kid you not,

about 10 years old.

I don't own that stamp,

I was taking a class

from the creator of that 

line of stamps,

sorry can't remember who,

and she was soooo 

generous and let us use 

tons of them!

I knew someday the perfect 

use for that paper would

come up and it did.

I look forward to Art in 2012!

Hey, I cheated and used a color wheel.

Being untrained and what not, 

I knew I wanted to add another

color and had no clue what

would work. 

Voila, and thank you, color wheel!

 Delicious Purple!!

Now the story of the 

transparency pockets:

they are the left over from 

banners I made for my bff's 

bridal shower.

I will blog about that soon.

I punched holes and used brads

to add the pockets. 

The transparencies were ran

through my ink-jet printer

and you can see some

sheet music on the edges

which I love.

Who doesn't look forward

to music?

I love that I was able to

"use what I have".

Big goal for me for 2012.

I used a sticker library card thingy

and covered it with paper.

It is actually my freezer

catch all paper that I put under my 

paintings. The palette just matched 

so I glued it on! 

Slipped the tags in 

and glued on the 

Be Still stamped paper.

I can add more tags

under the pockets

and there is plenty 

of room to journal!

I took the opportunity

to add a couple

sentences about 

mindfulness and suffering

that are very important to me

on the outside 

of the flap. 

This piece of paper 

is also from my stash,

circa Art and Soul 2007 or 8?

I took an INCREDIBLE class

given by Albie Smith

on paste paper making.

OMG.

It was HEAVEN.

teehee, you're welcome.

There is a pic of me and Albie

on my sidebar. 

We are holding the 2 books we

made in class.

I think it was a two day class.

But I don't remember 

and am too booted up to check.

I have very few pieces left of

my special paper, but I love the

purple and bronzy colors.

It was meant to be.

So, that's my 

second spread in my 

Book of Days!

Thanks for looking!

xoS