Out of time

Another on the 'less is more' theme for Art Journal Journey (see the sidebar for a link). This was such a simple page and came together in about ten minutes. Spray paint through an alphabet stencil, print off the excess paint, stick down a silhouette, and journal on it. Done!

Do you ever feel as if you've been born in the wrong time? I sometimes look at the things I do - dressmaking, knitting, crochet, tatting, baking, the occasional patchwork - I sometimes think I should have been a 50s housewife :)

What about you? When would you like to have been born?

Bits and pieces

I find I have several pieces that I've finished this week that haven't found a place on to the blog in any other place. I'm just bringing them all together in a 'bits and pieces' post. I think this fits with the Art Journal Journey topic for this month - less is more - and also for the Soartful Challenge which is a single flower with a minimalist design. 

Here I was just having fun with some colour, trying out a technique that didn't work for me, but hey, I had fun anyway. My daughter read what I'd stamped and decided that she should do just that, so the purple splodge at the top right is hers :)

This page is a large transfer of a photo I took at Wakehurst Gardens in Sussex, UK. I used Transfer Artist Paper for it. Not that happy with the writing, but never mind. It was a ten minute page and there's only so much you can do in ten minutes.

And this one... well, I've just bought a book on self-portraits. As someone who hates having their photo taken, doing a self-portrait is not something I would think of doing. I couldn't bring myself to do any more than my eyes this time. And even then I posterized the photo in Photoshop. Still slightly unsettled by it and haven't come up with any words for the page yet. I really like the background, though.

So that's my round-up. What have you been up to? 

Less is more

Art Journal Journey's theme for this month is Less is More.

So in the spirit of that, here is a very simple page and a short post.

Sometimes less is more.

A simple, heart-felt gesture can say so much more

than a thousand well-intended but clumsy words.