Jeudi Journal - Wings

This week the topic is "Wings" and the colours to use are purple and orange.  As I had a page with some purple on it and I wanted to use up some of the pages that had paint on them I decided to go with this one and add some orange to it.  I must add, at this stage I had not a clue what I was doing.

I decided to use wings on two characters and then remembered my new stamps, three little maids,  and decided to use them and so I duly coloured them in with Promarkers and put to one side ready to stick in.  In my searching through my stamped images I found two sayings "this way" and "that way" - perfect for this page with the words I had in mind.

Then it was on to the background.  My "arrows" stencil again was a perfect choice and so I began by using my "squeezed orange" followed by my "crushed grape" - oh dear!  The purple showed up but the orange faded into the background, especially against that purple.  Out with a black pen and an outline of all the arrows - Oops!  Now it was too much in your face and placing the figures on top it was such a muddle. What to do?  I had to go for it so I glued the figures down and outlined them in black like a well-known journalist does.

Finally I was ready for my words, typed out and left, in a block, a little like Dyan does hers (sorry Dyan) a quick colouring with highlighters of the "this way" and "that way" images and it was finished.

Still a little too busy (or muddled) for my liking but hey ho, someone might like it!  Wish I had never used an outline on those arrows.

We are nearly at the end of our topic and three colour time (black is not a colour in case you are thinking I have not stuck to the rules - and my third colour is white (also not a colour but I am using artistic license here) LOL.  We have the next session planned but you will have to wait and see what our new rules will be.