Jeudi Journal - Broken

"We are all a little broken, but broken crayons still colour" is the quote for today.

My initial idea was to draw a lot of crayons at the top of the page and colour them in letting the paint drip down the page but then I couldn't think how to incorporate Dylusion figures.  So it was a rethink.  Next was a sad looking person with a broken heart and a few heart shaped flowers decorating the page.  Maybe one or two or even three of them.  

Finally I decided to go with the word "broken" and use a dis-jointed person with a paint brush in her hand painting the flowers in her garden.

I used a large Dylusion figure that was able to 'bend' when she had her body cut up and disjointed but I used some Paperartsy flowers rather than the Dylusion ones I have as they seemed to work better.

Once again I used a Pan Pastel background, I am getting to like these for a quick coverage with no effort to set off my aches and pains, and, because I stamped the flowers directly onto the page I chose to colour the flower heads with pencils so that the colour would not go through the page.

As you can see I had to make another arm for her so apologies for the drawing, it is the best I could do at the time.

I am entering this into Art Journal Journey where the challenge is to use flowers, as set by the lovely Mia.

WOYWW 572. Happy Anniversary Edition

Today we are now celebrating ELEVEN YEARS OF WOYWW!  The usual practice is to celebrate with artists trading cards and a great big swap but because of the pandemic and the pressure that has been put on the Royal Mail it was decided to dispense with the usual and do something else.

No idea who (ahem, ahem, who was it boss lady?) thought of it but we are all doing something with a UFO that we have.  I had not a clue which of the many unfinished objects I have I was going to tackle - certainly not the two suitcases that have been waiting years (and I do mean YEARS) to be finished.  Several things went through my head but on Sunday I decided it was about time I put the "thingie" to hold my duster brushes together and give it a lick of paint.

Here it is flat pack:

I decided to Gesso it first so it would not take too much paint and,~ use my Titan Buff (a large tube) which I then discovered was almost empty.  Some done but two side pieces needed doing on the one side so I went with a brown paint.  Ugh!  Streaky and nothing would make it any better.  Some cheapo paint from years ago revealed Vanilla, so the two sides and the top (on one side) got that.  Then yesterday morning it was time to stamp.  

Having been watching Tracy Evans on her "Live" programmes I went with her flowers.  Fine, until the ink would not dry on the acrylic paint.  Heat gun - oops, is it going to warp? Still parts were not dry.  Embossing powder?  Solved.  Then to paint the flowers, thank goodness there was not that much but I certainly needed a fine brush for those flowers on the base.  

To varnish or not?  Well, let's see how it goes together first.  Oh dear, some of the wood has swollen either with the paint or the heat.  Sandpaper!  Still won't fit together.  Hammer!  and a piece of kitchen roll to protect it a bit as I knock seven bells out of it (only kidding).

Finally

and now modelled with old brushes 

(shorter so you can still see the flowers)

So there it is, my UFO, still not knocked down enough but at this point I gave up - more next time ... maybe.

Congratulations Julia on keeping WOYWW going for eleven years.  A big accomplishment, and one I don't think anyone has ever achieved - it's like a giant blog hop for eleven years.   Eleven wonderful years of fun and friendship, loyalties that have never been broken, tears and joy, sharing and caring - it goes on and on.  Thank you Julia for all of this, you had no idea what was going to happen when you first started and now eleven years later your idea is still going strong.

Happy Anniversary fellow WOYWW'ers, and 

Here's to the next .....