Another page for my journal challenge with Wendy and also another entry for the Art Journal Journey challenge which this month is having a Springlike theme chosen by the lovely Valerie of Bastelmania fame. Today the quote is "Does going bra-less help pull the wrinkles out of your face?"
My page started off, in my head, as being a lovely lime green colour. As it turned out it was a kind of mid to dark green so that meant adding some more yellow - no better. Then it was white paint, Gesso and more and more white paint until I got to that kind of pale green colour - not lime!! I still had quite a bit of the darker green so I lightened it a little and tried to use it up on another page which in the end had so much paint on it, it felt like linoleum. Still some left so I put it through a stencil on three corners of my page. then I chose my figures and began my story:
"Billy and Tish had been friends for years. Way back to High School and then on to Uni and beyond. They had married within months of one another, their first babies were almost the same age and their friendship was unbreakable.
They knew almost everything there was to know about one another and now they were both reaching retirement age they were planning what they would do with their time once work was behind them.
It was a Saturday afternoon and the two of them had met up for a coffee and a chat. It was not long since the pandemic had changed the lives of so many and now, at long last, they were told the various bans were to be lifted but they should still exercise control. Tish had turned up still wearing a mask and when asked why she said it was not for medical reasons but it actually made her feel and look better.
"it covers the wrinkles around my mouth", she continued, "that and not wearing spectacles are the only things that make me look younger."
"Not wearing your glasses?" asked Billy, "how do you make that one out?"
"Well", replied Tish, "when I take my glasses off I can't see the wrinkles that are there when I wear them." "It's pure magic."
Billie started laughing, "they are not wrinkles, they are your laughter lines and they come with age, nothing you can do about them, they are part of you."
"I was wondering", said Tish, "does going bra-less help pull the wrinkles out of your face?"
"What on earth are you like" asked Billie, "if that was the answer there'd be no Botox and a lot of people would be looking much younger than they are."
And the two of them laughed as they finished their coffees, got up and set off for a bit of good old retail therapy.
