Making More Art

Last week I wrote about some art journaling I'd done in the journal exchange I'm doing with my friend Lisa Busch.  You can find the post here, which details the process I used to create the pages.   

I thought you'd like to see more pages done at the same time.  I don't remember which pages are in which journal, but I tend to think the ones with the man and the saying about negativity are in my journal.  

The pages with my statement about negativity is really a play on the reputation I have for being rather like a Pollyanna - always positive.  However, several years ago a former friend was upset with me because she felt that I was being overly negative about some people we both knew.  I was speaking the truth about them, actually, but "Marie" didn't like it.  

In recent years, that positive image has slipped a bit as my life changed and things got a little rough.  I still try to maintain a 'glass half full' attitude, but sometimes it's a little harder to do so.  I thought it would be funny to pair my statement with an image I got from an Etsy shop called Veetzy Innovations  which sells fabulous digital downloads of original photographs.You can find the man's image (still available) here.   The man looks so dour, and I love him.


 The next two pages are in Lisa's journal.  I think the first couple is from a CD sold in Lisa's shop, collagestuff.com, and I've had a photo of the second couple for years, and I'm not sure where it came from.  One of my trademarks in my work is to add a wry or humorous caption, and these are no exception.  I'm not sure why on earth I added the pink piece from a doily, though.  That just looks so out of place now.



The final two pages feature two women's images that I found in the Dover Publications of Victorian etchings featuring women, which you can find at Amazon here.  Dover is a great resource for these kinds of collections, and I couldn't do my work without them.  The woman on the right doesn't say anything but I added a man's hat to her, which I think looks cute.  The woman on the right has a sad expression, possibly because she has to read "The Good Wife Guide."  I got the idea about the "Good Wife Guide" after seeing a reference to an actual book of that title on Amazon.  It's a reprint of an article published in the 1940s or 1950s.  There is a book for husbands as well.  Someday I might actually buy them myself.

Hopefully you've enjoyed this look at the journal pages.  As I'm starting a new journal for this exchange (my other book is running out of pages), I'm sure I'll share more.

later,
lin