On the site Watercolor.com I found a most interesting and fun project to play with. Art Journaling by Judi Russell. I’m not a huge fan of journals in any form nor mixed media art which is what most art journaling usually is. I decided to have a look at the page anyway just to check it out and I am glad that I did. It’s quite fun. Upon waking up one is supposed to take a pencil, close your eyes and just let the pencil scribble all over the page. Then open your eye, look at your scribbles to see if anything definitive stands out. Then trace over it to darken it, then go over it in dark marker. Next color it all in. This is all supposed to answer any mysterious questions that might be lurking in your subconscious mind. As I mis-understood that part I just wrote down whatever thought came to me when making the scribble. This has been most interesting.
So tonight I am showing you my very first one, with a little reluctance because of the subject matter. I did not have anything on my mind when I sat down to pursue this. I hadn’t been reading about this particular subject nor thinking about it. This is honestly what happened naturally. The first sentence, “Each day is filled with new possibilities” was my first thought then the others flowed from that. I have no idea how or why this particular issue was the subject matter. It just is what it is.
Each day is filled with new possibilities
Lives that are destroyed before they can begin
Lives ripped apart in pain and agony
Before they should ever experience any
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