I think the header just about describes my journal page today - the writing, which I thought looked ok'ish looks dreadful on the photograph so it is something I will have to play about with later. Writing is something I have always battled with - not in the actual writing of a letter or something but in journalling itself. I long to be able to write like Miranda, Sandra or Dyan to name just a few. Guess I need to try, try, and try again!
I am so late today but that is due to the back pain which has been horrendous this past week, even reducing me to tears, and in front of my chiropractor via a video consultation. I just had no mojo to start this page and when I came to look at the quote last night I went into meltdown. What the heck can I do to illustrate "Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you decide to see beyond the imperfections"?
So it was this morning I set to to tackle this quote and journal page which extended into a double one. I thought about a few figures I had but the already painted page (Pan Pastels) only allowed for landscape and my figure (in my mind) was a tall one. In the end, as you can see I opted for a different look altogether.
My main figure is small and stood in a ring of roses - sayings including 'roses' nearly always mean something good or nice - so they became my main focus and my figure is surrounded by them. But beyond are imperfect faces.
Top left she is obviously upset because of her piggy like ears and the bottom one is sad because of the tree-like hair she has to live with. Across the page we have a very sad looking face behind a cage and below that the all seeing eye - one eye sees all?
So that is how I have interpreted the quote and I decided to fill some of the emptiness with my own handwriting rather than a typed one (which I cannot find anyhow) but in some ways I now regret it. Anyhow here it is - a double spread - you need to CLICK on it to see it properly, sorry:
Thankfully with the roses I can enter this journal page into Art Journal Journey today. Now to look at next week's quote and start it early (ahem) but first off to see what Wendy has done.
