day nine: distorted sketches

"Grab a pencil with your least dominant hand. I am left handed, so my pencil goes in my right hand. Now, look around you and find something in your immediate surroundings. Zero in on it with your one good eye. Squint...stare...study the lines and shapes.

"Fixate that squinty eye on the top left (or right) of the object. Draw it on your journal page. Slowly. Very slowly. Study those lines...where are they going? Slow down and study them and map them on the paper with your pencil. Here's the kicker: don't pick up that pencil. Ever. Well, pick up the pencil a couple times if you must (I did) but try your absolute darnedest not to look at your sketch while it's in process. For if you do, you will become stupefied and upset....enjoy this process and look forward to the end result. It will be quirky....you can bet your bottom dollar on that!

After you've given your sketch color, add some shading now. I used that ever popular charcoal pencil and mostly shaded the right edges of the sketch.

Let's move on to the other page now. Add a few snips of paper, or doodles and spritzes of color to pull things together. Company's coming for crying out loud...we gotta clean this mess up! I left room for journaling. Hope you do, too."

This was a lot of fun. I had never did anything like this. Was really pleased with the sketch, especially since I did it all with my left hand. I am right handed. Thanks Teresa.

Have a great day!!!

Love,

Debxx

Day four: Where the day takes you

day four: where the day takes you was the theme for our summer journal over on Teresa McFayden's E-Zine.



"It's fun to think like that you know. As if the day has control over you--rather than the other way around--you have control over the day. I like the latter option, but the title to this journal prompt is more interesting written this way!

If you don't like the title, well good. Remember that and make an effort everyday to try and have control over your day and not the other way around. That's not always possible, but when it is, it's worth celebrating."

Of course the day that I picked to do was one of my busiest days..Oh well it was fun coming up with the different "houses". The title was fun to make. The letters are cut out of paper, no stick ons here...and was before I bought my Cricut..hehe. You would write the letter, ex. "A" on the paper, then outline around it in "balloon type". Then cut it out erase for markings, and then adhere to the page. The flowers are from a kids Easter stamp set. Still fun to play with. I used Staz-on inks. The papers were from my stash.

Big thanks to Teresa and all the work she has put into this journal.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugsssss,

Debxx