Art Journal, GC136: Glorious Green

This is my entry for the Glorious Greens (my favourite colour) at Gingersnap Creations GC136: Colour Challenge here. I have been following some of the prompts on the UKS Art Journey and this week we were to use packaging as inspiration. This was what I found...

We recycle most of our packing so had to root in the recycle bin. Toothpaste, nicotine patches and fly shoes reflects my week. Obviously the colour did not inspire me but the items did and are part of my hidden journalling.I am on week 4 of stopping smoking, the only me packaging is basics as I am allergic to anything with perfume, essential oils, citrus and too many more so no pampering products for me. The pampering was linked to the Fly box as it was my birthday this week and I was spoilt by my family.

I began by using modelling paste I saw in Lidl and spread it with my fingers over a double page leaving space in the middle. I then took a heat gun to the paste and got wonderful bubble texture.

I then journalled in an ever decreasing circle in the middle of the page and traced round the fly on the shoe box using Posca pens and acetate. I coloured the fly with alcohol inks and stuck it over my journalling.

I covered this with scrap paper and sprayed two colours of dylusion inks over the top.

Then it was my fingers and teal, yellow and white acrylic paint.

It was too boring at this point so I used the Birds on the Wire Stamps from Dylusions to cover the space. Because the background was so textured this gave an interesting effect with the stamps. Finally I wrote the word fly all round the border. I seem to have made a very green page again... Thanks for dropping by, I need to Fly now.

From muddy slope to bright green teletubby land

The grass is down and the railway sleepers have been made into retaining walls and flower beds. It is becoming a garden now. Had been waiting till it stopped raining to take photos of grass but it ain't stopped for two weeks. It's also obvious I have forgotten my day job as I'm sure last post should have read "Sneaky Peek" - got my mountains and eye movements confused.

Symphony in Green at the Trossachs

Lens Guy and I managed a day trip to the Trossachs today. Unfortunately it was not the sunny day we had hoped for but we had a lovely drive to Aberfoyle and beyond. We carried on passed Kinlochard to a place called Loch Chun. We had a lovely picnic and a walk before heading back to city life and work tomorrow. The one thing that struck me today was the infinite number of greens around us as we walked through the forest. The other is to remember to put my walking shoes on next time as fit flops and brambles and bracken don't go.

We saw the very weird fungus below on a tree. It was hard to the touch and just bizarre. The other picture was taken into the trees and has an etheral and otherworldly feel - or did when we were walking through the trees.