Hope you were not looking for a funny page when you saw the title of this blog post. It is, as usual with me, an extract from a quote of Dyan's and this time it is "I'm a bad influence but damn I'm fun!" Sounds as if the quote would be easy enough to do but to be honest I began this page with a struggle going on in my head.
It started with a page full of bits of different colours of paint left over from something else - can't remember now - it was just a wipe the brush type of page. Decided to go over it in a lime green for the base, with the intention of a grass and sky picture. The lime green paint had set solid'ish , like a jelly. You would think, knowing that, that it would give quite a heavy coating but it didn't. It flatly refused to colour and so I just continued it over the whole page and left it to dry. "See what happens" type of attitude. When I went back to it I liked it in a funny kind of way and so I decided to leave it - as was. So what about a story?
"Katia was a very attractive girl, she had lots of qualities that made her a popular choice with everyone she met but she had the knack of always ending her nights out by getting her and her girl friends in trouble one way or another. As a child she had always been a bit of a tomboy and had done lots of things getting her and her friends into trouble. Things like "knock and run" or tying her parents' door handle to a tree in the garden so they couldn't open the door. She was a real little minx. As she grew up her sense of humour didn't diminish one little bit and she was still up for having a laugh when out with the girls.
Quite often she would wear a wig when going out, sometimes her hair was blue, another time purple but her favourite was when she wore her white wig which she felt gave her a mysterious look. Coupled with a pair of dark glasses and a fetching outfit she would pretend she was from another country and talk in gobbledegook which was a mixture of a couple of languages she had learned at school with a bit of imagination thrown in.
Of course when the girls went out on the town they would always end up in a bar somewhere and she was a terrible tease, collecting several glasses, lining them up and pretending to her friends that she had had one too many. She was a terrible tease but they all felt she was fun. Mainly because she said she was."
Because I want to enter this into Art Journal Journey's challenge by Chris I have left the drawing of the bar as purely lines. Her challenge is "hold the line" and, whilst I immediately think of a telephone when I see it, Chris has said anything showing lines will be accepted. Phew! Hope this will do. See you over there - just follow the link above.
