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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

June Journal Pages

Here are my pages for Journal52 - I'm trying to keep up with July's and forgot to post June's!

Week 22 - Traveling

This is my favorite way to travel... by book. But that might just be because I have never gone first class. Next time I go to Egypt, I would love to see it from the luxury-travel point of view. I've been-there-done-that as "family trip," "archaeology student," and "tourists packed into a motorcoach." Maybe it's a bit shallow of me, but I want to know my salad hasn't been served to someone before me, and my mattress is 100% synthetic - not one bit of camel hair included! ;-) I don't mind get dusty and sweaty climbing through tombs and pyramids, but at the end of the day, I want a clean shower in a safe hotel.

This drawing was done with a UniPin pen, Tombow and Koi markers, and a waterbrush.

© Sandy Steen Bartholomew

Week 23 - Passion

Passion... I am actually struggling with this very thing right now. I know when I am excited about something, but I can't seem to make a list of passions to help me decide what to focus on... So I did a journal page more on the topic of what "Passion" feels like to me. Parts are a bit muddy, but this is not meant to be negative - there's a lot of cool colors and patterns in there.

© Sandy Steen Bartholomew
 I used Tombow markers to draw the word "Passion," then coated it with a Gelly Glaze pen and drew all the designs with the Glaze pen too. Then I poured acrylic inks over it. Let it dry, drew more with the Glaze pen, added more ink. Finally, I drew the other words, and outlined "Passion" with a white Souffle pen. Seemed kind of symbolic since it started out nice and clean and pretty - and ended up looking like a mess. But that is what I had intended.


Week 24 - Courage 

I saw this prompt one morning as I was panic-ing about an upcoming meeting. I was trying to distract myself by scanning email and was drawn to this quote in a post from the FoodBabe: 

"First they ignore you, 
then they laugh at you, 
then they fight you, 
then you win." 
- Mahatma Gandhi 

And I realized that was the path of my entire marriage. And my divorce. Except for the actual legal part of the proceedings... we didn't "fight". And that's where I lost. I knew what was right, what I "should" do, but I lost my courage. 

I'm not sure why this popped into my head as a "comic" - maybe the irony? 
It's drawn with a UniPin pen and colored with Tombow markers.

© Sandy Steen Bartholomew
 
Week 25  - Nature Inspired

I guess life inspires art.
I wasn't picturing anything for this prompt except pretty landscapes, etc. But I don't DO pretty landscapes. So I was stuck.

Then one day, I had just returned home from an awful meeting and was trying to decide if I should just sit in my carport and cry? I didn't want to bring all my yuck-brain into my house. 

As I sat,  I realized I was watching a very pretty spider wrap a much larger, very ugly spider, in her web. I was fascinated, and strangely encouraged. "If she can do it - I can do it." Plus... the image would work for this week's journal homework. Yeah!

The whole piece is done in watercolors. I was going to say "No spiders were harmed in the making of this piece..." but, well... that's just not true. 
 
© Sandy Steen Bartholomew

Week 26 - Under the Sea

Materials: crayons and small children
 
I spent the day at a Garden Party. I felt out of place among the big people (I never know what to talk about!) Then, I saw two small tables with tiny chairs and crayons and piles of white paper and tiny people...OMG... my tribe! Along with my daughter, my nieces, and some other random little boys - we drew lots of horses, unicorns, seahorses, unicorn-seahorses... and mermaids. This one was my favorite! (I'm completely in love with my daughter's seahorses!) 

When I saw this week's prompt, I was SO excited! 
I've GOT this!! Yeah!

© Sandy Steen Bartholomew

Since I had quite a bit of...assistance... with this piece, I thought I should include a piece I did on my own as well. The day after the Mermaid fiesta, I drew this one with a Papermate ballpoint pen while my daughter tried, unsuccessfully, to displace all the water from the hotel pool!

© Sandy Steen Bartholomew

Wow - we are halfway through the year - how crazy is that? I'm hoping I can keep motivating myself to make these journal pages!

1 comment:

  1. I always ran my business, and then my life, very roughly planning the next 6 to 9 months. This was especially true of my business. If I didn't see income coming in 9 months from whenever, I'd go into heavy planning mode.

    So with that in mind, I just found out that I have arthritis in my right hip which is not something someone known for adult kick scooting (LetsKickScoot.com) wants to learn. Actually, 9 months ago, I injured my left knee, which I thought might de-wheel me. Who'da thought that my right hip would do me in?

    Anyway, upon injuring my knee, I started roughing in future plans and now I have some to draw upon given the changes I'm going through. So my advice is to create a booklet (paper, online, whatever, with writing or drawing) of all the things you would love to do and COULD do if you applied yourself, and use it for an emergency when you must do something different.

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