Took all my paints out last night and played around.
These are mainly backgrounds, using some new tools and materials I've been wanting to try.
Enjoyed every minute!
The hardest part is to decide if and how to continue each page.
Do you also fall in love with your backgrounds? I get stuck every single time, fearing I'll "ruin" them! :-)
It started with this exercise, inspired by Cynthia Shaffer (I love her blog, and LOVE the energy in that last post :)).
I drew this tiny doll I once bought at a flea market:
This is what it looked like at the beginning:
And I'm thrilled with the result! I played and played with paper and glue and pencils and crayons and paints, and I'm so happy I plan to hang it! Very exciting for me, because I have absolutely nothing I made decorating my home.
Last, but not least - food for thought.
I made this canvas after a whole week in which I stayed away from the computer. Hmmm...
It's been a long time since I got out some paint and actually scrapbooked, so these two were lots of fun to make, just for me! Lots of paint, free hand cut elements, some felt, free writing, as I said - lots of fun!!
In this first one, the picture was taken last year, in Amsterdam, on a very windy day. We were desperately trying to take a picture of ourselves with a windmill in the background (because of the wind, there was no one around to ask to take the picture!), and kept getting very funny close-ups of ourselves, without any background:
And this is just a practice LO I made, where I used a picture I clipped from the newspaper. That also explains why there are journaling lines, but no journaling. :)
