This week I changed things up a bit on the art journaling front. (I know, I know, I’m wild.) Anyway–I was listening to a podcast (Craftcast, maybe?) and the guest mentioned this quote: “The music is not in the piano.”
I love that. I know I often get waylaid in projects because I don’t have this specific item, or I don’t have one of those tools or supplies or colors, or I need a better one of this or that. I’m getting more practice adapting though; here in Poland I really can’t find art supplies or craft items and so I am forced to be more creative (!) in finding substitutes or other solutions.
(Of course, then when I go back to visit Portland I’m like a crazy woman in Collage.)
Anyway, the art journaling question this week is not a question, but a chance to choose a quote, write it out and play with it: The colors, the shapes of the letters, the background, the border, whatever. For me, it became a chance to sort of meditate on the meaning of the quote as I doodled and colored and inked.
I’d forgotten how relaxing it is to doodle and outline and color without trying to draw something specific. The background here is made with watercolor crayons; the black pen is a fine-tip permanent marker and the colored pens are Distress Markers.
Happy Wednesday—and happy art journaling!
I love that quote. It’s lovely. I enjoyed looking at your art journal page, too. It does seem as though it would be relaxing to doodle like that.
We can’t buy many things – at least not pre-packaged things – like you can in many other countries, either. It forces you to think outside the box, to go for more raw materials. There are markets where you can buy tons of ribbon. You can go down to the river and pick up pieces of string or part of fishing nets. I recently made a whole hangy dealy bopper thing (I don’t know how to describe it) for my daughter’s birthday, using ribbon and cotton material people here use to make longyis out of (which is sort of like a sarong that even the men wear). It was much cheaper buying this fabric than buying ribbon and I easily could cut it and rip it into ribbon like shreds.
Anyway – maybe there are ways you can explore the ethnic/more raw materials in Poland to use in your pieces?!