No, Dyan has not done a quote saying 'Safe Distancing Please' but this week we had "A Group of People is called No Thanks" as our quote - this was chosen by Wendy a few months ago so no idea about the coronavirus then. However I decided that this quote was apt in the current climate and so I used it to illustrate 'safe distancing'.
To begin with I coloured my page with various shades of yellow and some green from my Pan Pastels. Not used in a long time but they came out for something else and I decided to use them here. They provide such a quick cover for journal pages I can see them being used over and over. As I wanted to join in with the theme of 'Geometric' on Art Journal Journey I took out several stencils with those shapes on and then I found one that I had bought recently that had circles, rectangles and triangles on the one stencil - so I used that instead of several others (less cleaning) with Forest Moss DI very lightly applied on top.
Then I searched through my tiny figures and found a whole bunch of them that would do, standing together making a crowd with one of them relaxing on the ground. I have seen photos and video recordings of people not listening to the safety rule of standing 2 metres apart and a friend told me she was a nervous wreck when she had been shopping. It was the stupid behaviour of others that had got to her with people handling goods and putting them back, holding up others from proceeding down the aisle and then to top it all one went the wrong way up the final aisle pushing past all those shoppers queuing to pay the cashier! (Actually it was one woman who did all three things - handling goods, holding others up and going the wrong way past the cashier aisle)
So I decided I would have a group, probably at the park or somewhere like that, with someone else not wanting to join them. I hope her stance portrays her attitude! She was too tall to go on the page so I had to chop a bit off her legs to shorten her. It took me longer fiddling with that than it did to do the background!
Next I found a picture of the virus and printed it out in different sizes to add impact to the message and perhaps be a bit more in the way of an explanation of what I was trying to do. My final task was to do some lettering - I wish I could do really good lettering like Dyan Reaveley, Miranda Van den Bosch, Sandra Botham etc but I can't so I just wrote it in a bit of a higgledy piggeldy sort of way. So that is it - my journal page for this week.
(Just as I was finishing this write up an alert came through from the MEN telling us that a 31 year old woman had been fined in a neighbouring town for throwing a party on Saturday night. No idea what the fine was but I think now is the time to 'name and shame'. My opinion and I am not changing)
