DAY 13 AND DAY 14

Let me start by saying I have had a head cold and to be honest I have not be able to put all my efforts into the journal. But saying that I really want to challenge myself I could so easily sit down and do nothing.

Yesterday day 13 the prompt was Walking Lines in my case it was a giant doodle . The problem I have is that I am using a Windsor and Newton A4 sketch book and although it says heavy weight ink bleeds through. I have to be very careful that I do not spoil something on a previous page that I am happy with. The other mistake I made was to upload a photo to the Journal Page Gallery before I was sure it was finished I added to it afterwards and was much happier.

Today I felt well enough to walk my labrador and was enjoying the fresh air until I spotted fly tipping.

We are lucky in this part of the UK we have a very good refuse collection and they even collected during the recent bad weather. There is NO EXCUSE to dump rubbish we have civic amenity site 5 miles away and who ever dumped this must have had a car. To make matters worse it seemed that it was mainly a little girls old toy collection play kitchen etc. I do hope she was not in the car to witness her parents destroying the countryside.

Now back to the journal page for DAY 14 MIRROR MIRROR was the prompt and Milliande did a delightful page. I decided to use some sticky back mirror paper I have had lurking for years possibly purchased from one of the shopping channels. I searched through one of the several boxes of photos in the attic for old photographs of myself cropped them and collaged using PICASA and PICNIK. and after gluing in I just doodled around the edge.

I do not think that this was a particularly arty effort but it seemed OK for the prompt.

Materials used

MIRROR PAPER (it does make you look very distorted )

PITT PENS

PRO-MARKERS

DRAWING INK

WHITE PEN

DAY 11 DAY 12

Day 11 was a crossword theme I was quite happy with finished page although I think it could have been looser. Day 12 was much more my thing Milliande called it DAILY DEBRIS and she asked us to create using items found on our desks from other projects. This was perfect for me as my desk is always in a state of utter chaos in fact I had too much choice.

DAY 10

I hope this post loads with a font colour that I can read I just could not correct it yesterday.I suppose these blogs are a little boring with me just posting journal pages but nothing much is happening. The weather has been horrible today wet and windy and really dull. But I feel ashamed saying that when some parts of the world are being declared disaster areas.

Back to my creating I managed to get the last of the Atcs done today I will post a picture tomorrow and I have done today's journal page. Milliandes prompt included dragonflies and water theme and I used a photo for the first time today. I had taken it last year on my iphone and it is of my wildlife pond. I thought this was quite appropriate for today's page and I am really pleased with how it turned out.

I am now beginning to get addicted to my daily art prompt from milliande at

http://www.milliande.com/art-journal-january-2011.html the anticipation of what we will be asked to do starts building from early morning. So much so that I am checking for emails on a regular basis. Of course this does mean that I have little time for much else. Today I did manage at last to produce ATCs to send to Rachel for the Dolls House swap. I have been agonizing over this swap for weeks and I was going to pull out but today an idea came and I was pleased with the end result. Now all that is left outstanding is a tea and cake ATC swap and my monthly journal page swap.

On top of that I really want to take more photos and make an effort to learn how to use my camera properly after all there is no point in having good equipment if you do not use it correctly.

DAY 8 AND DAY 9

I am now beginning to get addicted to my daily art prompt from milliande at

http://www.milliande.com/art-journal-january-2011.html the anticipation of what we will be asked to do starts building from early morning. So much so that I am checking for emails on a regular basis. Of course this does mean that I have little time for much else. Today I did manage at last to produce ATCs to send to Rachel for the Dolls House swap. I have been agonizing over this swap for weeks and I was going to pull out but today an idea came and I was pleased with the end result. Now all that is left outstanding is a tea and cake ATC swap and my monthly journal page swap.

On top of that I really want to take more photos and make an effort to learn how to use my camera properly after all there is no point in having good equipment if you do not use it correctly.