The last of this session is "Smile it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart" and it is one I had on the bottom of my list with the words "where do we put this one?" so it got forgotten about and now is in at the end.
For mine I decided that I would do an Industrial background choosing to use a Gabrielle Pollocco Stencil, 'Rivets', so I mixed black and white paint to give a steel grey (or battleship grey as the brother in law would call it) and then used a black inkpad to put the rivets of the stencil on. Didn't work! Holes and lines too fine. So I mixed some black paint with some water to make it a bit more fluid and used that - not very successful but it gave an Industrial look to the page and I told myself any smudges looked in keeping with it all.
I then started to go through the heads of my Dylusion figures to find one with a smile - do you know there are not that many and I ended up using "Survivor" and the small figure with the big head - the closest two I could find to having a smile. I wanted to convey the message so chose a face that looked very sad for the third figure.
The whole page was quite drab with the grey and black so I decided to use my new stencils of leaves (thanks Lorraine) to represent grass and leaves growing on wasteland by this industrial area - two shades of green, very similar, were used and I was quite pleased with how they turned out.
The figures were added and then the small figure had her hands held out as if gesturing - or could it be they were holding something? Well, that gave a cue for a key to be added and I had an old die of a lock shaped like a heart - perfect! A few more red hearts and the page was finished. At least it has all the elements on so I hope you like it.
Next week we begin our new set of quotes so more challenges lie ahead and some are rather difficult! Ooer!
As this has my new dies on I can enter it into Art Journal Journey again where Jo chose to have some reference to 'Something New' on it. Hurray, I can enter this one now. Thanks Jo and the Team.
