Art Journalling

I started back at the Art Journalling Workshop

Jane Cunningham runs at The Quarry Art Centre

on Monday's a few weeks ago but have found it's 

a bit much doing both that and the Printmaking 

workshop on Tuesday, especially if I've worked

 over the weekend at The Bach as well.

 The Prompt for the page above was MYSTERY

and Jane got us all ripping a page or two out of 

an old book (something I was taught NOT to do!)

and we discussed what the term Mystery (Life)

 meant for each one of us. For me it's like a mist

or a veil that makes seeing sometimes hard and 

a bit scary, but sometimes amazing, like an 

autumn morning when the mist is thick and 

though you know the roads there you can't see

 it and you've got to trust that it is.....

The pages I tore out of the book were about 

The Reformation and The Voyage of Discovery

which I thought was interesting given the nature

of life's journey and the events in mine of late.

The previous week's Prompt was Tree of Life

and very much tied in with Mystery for me

as nature and creation is a mysterious thing.

As always, I had a grand visual idea in my head 

but was disappointed by what came out of my

hands. I ended up resorting to using a credit

card to apply the background and my hands 

for the tree. My 'framing" of the page reminds

me of an avenue of trees and the way they 

embrace and encompass...Returning to work

on some text, I'm liking this page more for

what it represents, hence the words BELIEVE

and TRUST. I'm not sure if it's finished yet

but happy to wait upon more if that's to come. 

Art Journing: 10 hours