Jeudi Journal - Exercise

"I ate healthily and exercised today ... I better frikken wake up skinny" is the quote from Dyan's stamps today.  

I had the idea of making it a dream sequence but then the size of the page sent that one 'through the window' but I still kept on with the idea in some way.  I was particularly pleased when I saw that the lounging lady (centre one) can look as if she is doing that "bicycle" exercise that I used to be happy to do ..... a few years ago!

To begin with I painted my page, using a roller, in a light blue and then, using the same colour, went all over with a swirl stencil.  Ugh!  Didn't like it.  So I tried a bit of Iced Spruce, worse than ever, next came some Broken China all over - better but not happy yet.  Did a bit of circle stamping in Blueprint Sketch, no no no, blot it all out with the Blueprint Sketch all over - Better!  So my background ended up much darker than intended but by this time I had had enough.

I looked for the chubbiest figure I could find and it had to be the one in the coat and with a scarf around her neck.  I had to cut the house from the top of her head (and subsequent heads) as it does nothing for me.  Next came the chubbiest legs I could find with an umbrella for her hat,  just a bit of fruit from a magazine and we had the main figure who 'ate healthily'. 

Next came my tiny figure who is doing her 'exercise today' and her hat is one of those bits of a building that has fallen off, like a bit of plaster or something.  Not that she is bothered, as far as she is concerned it is a stylish hat with two bobbles on.

The third figure is all the first one wants.  A slim, lithe body (notice the change between no 1 and no 3) in her keep fit gear plus a little fancy hat perched on the top of her head.  You may have noticed I used the same face for all three figures - that is because it is supposed to be the same person all the way through the three stages.

I really enjoyed doing this one and think a lot of my enjoyment came from finding that the lounging lady can also be one doing exercises.  Ooh, I do enjoy my Dylusion figures when I can mix and match body parts.

See you next week with a new one but in the meantime I am entering this into Art Journal Journey where the theme is "Eyes" - I have three pairs of them on here.