Wendy's choice this week - "I'm not an early bird, or a night owl, I'm some form of permanently exhausted pigeon" - this had me completely stumped so I am looking forward to seeing what Wendy has done for hers. Ideally I should have had a bird, an owl (which I do have) and a pigeon - or at least the heads of them to put on my figures.
So how do I explain what I have done? Starting with a blue inked background I divided the page into three and put some lightening streaks to show the divisions with a black pen. Then I put some different shapes with a blending tool through a stencil to give me different backgrounds in each section. What next!
Next came the figures. I chose to use my tiniest figures and thought back to the one I had done once with someone exercising - that would do for the early morning person. Not like me, a cuppa and a sit down trying to remember what day it is but someone up and at 'em with a bit of cycling on their back. The next figure was a bit of a challenge - how do you do a night owl - ideally I needed the figure who is strutting her stuff in her leotard, dressed to the nines and living it up - but as I had nothing suitable I decided to put her head in her hat to signify darkness - ie night time!
I knew exactly what I wanted for the last figure but sadly I did not have any stamps to portray a figure with legs splayed out at either side of them, hands on head and a dizzy look about the face so I went with a sitting figure with a skeleton head. Why a skeleton? Well, I cannot think of anyone more permanently exhausted than that.
So that is me and my interpretation of this quote. Not happy with it but I did the best I could think of in the circumstances.
Let's hope next week does not pose such a problem.
