October 30 - Fall ...

fall this year has been amazing ... October passed by with mostly clear blue sunny skies, warm temperatures and hey, i'm still running around in my birkenstocks ... no need for boots ... yet!

The streets and lawns are littered with beauty ...

I head off to the Playground of the Gods on the side of Burnaby Mountain ... it's always a fabulous place to walk and enjoy the views ... this day, it was so crowded with photographers it was crazy ... 

Fall also brings out the crazies in us as we try to get a decent shot of Honey in her Halloween costume ... this year, she was pouting big time so this is the best i got ...

and don't you just love the abundance of the season ... ornamental pumpkins and gourds ... squash of every kind ... 

summer roses start to fade ...

I love the colours of the season ... hope you are enjoying your fall ...

Trying something new and hooking up with a photoblog challenge at a 'lilhoohaa

page a day 19 - 22

four more little pages, lots of playing and experimenting ... I have really been enjoying this non constrictive process of creating little pages ...
number 19
layers and layers of ink ... the background is distress stains and the leaves were stamped on and painted with dylusions ink .... then lots of water was applied to run and mix the colours.  nothing was meant to stay in the lines ...i just wanted a mix of colours that looked like fall ...

number 20 

oh i made a lovely background but when it was dont i thought that the colour palette looked flat ... so i covered most of it with black paint, and i used a diaper wipe to wash a lot of the black out, so it looks almost dark grey in areas  irl ... with texture as the coat is not even ... I am not a fan of the letters ...but it is all a learning process ...

number 21

I love the background on this one, i laid down some gesso and then used my trusty old alcohol inks ... yes, they can be used on water colour paper as long as you lay down a good layer of gesso.

The flowers were made from old book pages and painted with acrylic paint and gelatos.

number 22

This is one of my favourites ... an accidental page .... i started with my distress stain background, and put down some more colour with dylusions inks and stencils.  I tore a piece of paper from a gelli plate i had made and attached it ... then i just kind of tore more strips from more plates and tossed in a few book pages and it morphed into this wonky little city scape ... just a happy little accident!

thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek, i am really enjoying this learning process ...
peace love and paper,
jo

a page a day 11 - 18

... so some of my friends have reminded me that i haven't posted in a while ... eeeks, they are so right, once again I am a wee bit behind in my blogging .... I kind of have a love/hate relationship with my blog right now ... i really want to resume regular blogging, but then again ... i really just wanna play!

So that challenge i was working on ... a page a day for 30 days ... well, it's still in progress ... i was right on track until day 25 when i just kindof came to a screeching halt ... just a lot of other things to do that got in my way ...

So here we go ... I have tons of fun doing these pages to date, and have learned a lot

page 11 

I tried a bit of "magazine art" on this page ... i had a few technical issues ... the magazine paper wrinkled and was difficult to paint over .... i also tried using a few rub-ons .... i now have a way to use up all of those rubons i have been hoarding for years ...

Page 12

lots and lots of layers on this page ... mainly blotching bigger layers using larger stencils ... i think i like using smaller scaled stencils better ... old book pages and again some rubons ... i am loving using "claudine helmuth" paints by Ranger ... fab translucency!

Page 13
a cutesy little page using stamps.  the background is primarily Distress Stains ... the mushrooms are painted with dylusions ink sprays.

page 14
practicing painting ... a story about a little birdie ... in this case my bird is cut from a gelli print.  I am wishing i had a better font ... must practice my writing skills...

Page 15 ... I am learning that i really like simple backgrounds ... is this so bad, or do all journal pages need complicated multi layered backgrounds?  I am also finding that my two favourite colours to use on a page are black and white ... what a surprise!  but i love the way they pop on a coloured page.

page 16

what i love about dylusions sprays is that they run beautifully ... i used sprays over a distress stained background ... i also used my water based white sharie pen ... i bled out the white ink on the yellow flowers and loved the results.

page 17

used some book pages on this one ... and used gel medium transfer on the small newsprint areas ... i had fun with this one ...

 page 18
distress stain background covered lightly with gesso ... then used distress paints and ran them ... this was one of my favourite pages ...again loving the use of white and black on a colourful page.

 I am learning lots with these little pages ... you can learn a lot from the internet, especially youtube, but there is nothing like practicing and experimenting to really learn what you like to use, and what you like to do!!!

thanks so much for stopping by!
jo