Jeudi Journal - Thin Ice

Well this week's quote was "If you're already walking on thin ice you may as well dance" and two day's ago I had not a clue what I was going to do for this, but then on Tuesday when I sat down to start inspiration hit.  The trouble was I wanted to do another beach scene - I so enjoyed the colours in the one last week that I wanted to use them again.  

Here we are, not quite the same, not as dramatic a sky, but a hot beach scene again for my journal so that I can fulfill the criteria for Erika in her challenge at Art Journal Journey, "It's Hot".  If you pop along you can see that Erika gives you lots of ideas so that you can use cold things as well as hot - why not give it a go and join in.

My little story this week is about three young girls who have gone on holiday to a lovely hot beach resort.  Having just escaped the reins of homelife they are eager to hit the beach and sample the bar, even though they are all not really old enough to be drinking.  (Well, that is apart from the cool one in the shades who is lying on the beach hoping she looks cool.  She is the oldest one of the three and the others look up to her.) 

The poor girl in the middle of the trio is a bit bewildered as to why they are hitting the beach straight away when their luggage has not yet arrived and they are still dressed more or less as they were when they left home.  She has not even thrown her coat off, and why is she wearing that beret?  Well, the other one is already dancing her way to the bar at the far side of the beach putting the middle girl in a quandary.  "What is happening" you can almost hear her say as she holds her hands out .  Well, as the other one says "If you're already walking on thin ice you may as well dance" .  And dance she does, on her way to the beach bar.

For this once again I used my Distress inks, Tumbled Glass for the little blue patch of sky, Spiced Marmalade for the orangey bits and Wild Honey for the sun.  What else but Salty Ocean could I use for the sea and Tea Dye gave a very light colour for the sand.  

I chose to do the beach bar and the palm tree just in pen and ink as I didn't want them to dominate the picture.  Apart from the girl at the end nearest to the bar I didn't do any alterations of heads or body parts but for her I chose a different head to make her look young and chopped a pair of legs up to try to make them look as if she was dancing in some way.

I think I am getting quite attached to orange as a colour - maybe another beach scene next week, or will I go cool?  I do like blue!  

(the other ideas I had were:  of a girl and her mother with mother reading her daughter's report card from school - she could have been skating on very thin ice there; or a female on a shopping spree who kept charging things to her  card - she'd be skating on thin ice before long if she did that. Finally I was going to have girls using fake id's to get into a bar - but then I wanted a beach so that last one  kind of got changed)