I always try to link my 'Thursday Journal' to Art Journal Journey and so my spread today is, as always on a Thursday, inspired by the words and art of Dyan Reaveley. I am fortunate to live quite close to Dyan and so have taken many workshops, given by her and her team of tutors, in the delightful town of Harrogate. I have known her for many many years from when we were on the circuit together, when her hair was cropped short and she wore black - and Doc Martin boots - a total contrast to the retro dressing red haired Dyan most of you know.
Dyan has, since those days, become a Designer for Ranger in America and brings her quirky designs to the world of art and crafters everywhere. She still has her store in Harrogate, still runs the occasional workshop when she is in this country, albeit at the moment via You Tube because of the pandemic, and is a very successful business woman, and, the reason I began art journaling.
As today Art Journal Journey are honouring Eileen, a member of their team who has sadly recently passed, by continuing with the theme that she was going to host which is "Influenced By" I am joining in with my page which is influenced by Dyan Reaveley who taught me some of the different ways to do an art journal.
RIP Eileen
How many times in your life have you felt like "Getting out of bed is always the wrong decision"? That is the quote from Dyan this week. Well, not exactly Dyan, it was Wendy's choice from one of Dyan's plates. So what have we this week?
Once again I used my reverse stencilling for the background. Actually this was a mop up from last week as I used the left over bits on the stencil to put on this page but to make it a bit more defined I added some darker blue to the squared stencil and used that over the top. Then i drew in one or two of the squares with a marker pen and a gelly roll one. Today we have two friends, Sophie and Tina ...
"Tina has arrived at Sophie's house to go out to meet up with some friends for a socially distanced get together. This is the first time they have been able to meet outside in a small group of six so obviously all the girls have been making a real effort to dress up rather nicely.
Sophie felt she had made a real effort, especially with her hair which she had streaked herself and she was so pleased with how it looked. She felt she had a reasonable figure so she had chosen her dress rather carefully so that it accentuated her tiny waist and showed off her legs rather well. It was a new dress, one she had ordered over the internet because clothes shopping had been out of reach with all the rules for this pandemic that was going on all over. Her new boots were lovely and shiny and she was really on quite a high. That was until she saw Tina.
Tina had also streaked her hair, not quite as good as Sophies, or so Sophie thought, but her outfit! That was another story. She was wearing the most adorable dress, the one that Sophie had wanted with the beautiful magenta frill running around the hip. It had been the frill that had sold it on the screen to Sophie but it was no longer available in her size. Tina must have bought the last one!
Poor Sophie, her face fell, and she looked so sad. The whole day was turning into a disaster. "Getting out of bed is always the wrong decision" she thought as she put on a brave face and walked out of the door to meet up with the others."
Here I am with Dyan, being silly at CHA in 2016 (it was her idea to pose like this)
