Just how bored?
Well, I cleaned out the freezer, I tried to start a Tumblr art blog, I talked my daughter into gutting one of the guest rooms with me, I started a new non-art blog, I redid two pieces of art and started a few more, I've posted every day to at least one of my blogs, I started a new book (reading, not writing) and I went by myself to see this movie.
By myself.
And if thats not enough, I then made a journal page about it!!!!
I started with a CitraSolv paper in really pretty pastel shades with what I believe was at one time a hummingbird on it. When I started to journal on the page, I discovered that not every pen works on a CitraSolv page. I finally settled on Sharpies and PrismaColor.
Next I slapped on some scraps of handmade papers and my favorite tissue paper.
And then I decided to gel transfer the movie picture on top. I've never transferred onto paper before but I expected it to be fragile so I coated both sides with medium prior to attempting the transfer. Well, I was wrong, it wasn't fragile. It was super-fragile! As I started to scrub off the paper backing, the magazine page started to tear so I had to leave a lot of the white fuzz on there.
And that led to a nice discovery ~ the white fuzz absorbs watercolors (I used Twinkling H20s in the same colors of the original CitraSolv paper) beautifully. Since I'm working on another collage with a transfer at the same time, I'm going to use the watercolors on its white fuzzies too.
I bet all the world's best discoveries came becuz somebody somewhere was really bored one day. Okay. Maybe not ALL and maybe not THE BEST (after all, I know some people worked really diligently to get us medicines and electricity and other wonderful things) but certainly some really cool artsy discoveries were made this way!
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