Global Pandemic: Day 37

I've been ornery the last few days and little things have been ticking me off. So I dedicated my time to just coloring today. I did get a few pages done with just some colored images. I felt better.

I haven't been posting a lot of this little journal as I don't tend to like the end results of the pages. I think its partly due to the fact that the backgrounds I did aren't really my palette. I don't like them overall so I'm trying to adjust them as I go along.

This is the Dyalog Day by Day challenge journal. It's hard for me to do it every day but I'm trying. I have other creative projects I'd like to do as well so this little journal is falling by the wayside. But here's a few pages I got done today.

Just a quick page using the challenge page quote. It says: "I'd love to go out but the cat and I have plans for this evening." I love the creepy look of this cat from Dyan Reaveley.

For the April 17th page, I went way off the rails. I just jotted down some of the main things from the challenge. My notes included: silhouette, collage girl, and gatherings of people. This spread didn't really follow the outline but I like it better than most pages in this journal. And that's probably why. Those images are rubber stamps from Stamper's Anonymous. It's a Tim Holtz set called, The Chemist.

Stay home.
Wash your Hands.
WEAR YOUR MASK WHEN YOU GO OUT!!!
(I'm looking at you St Lawrence County!)
Stay well.
-Wy

Global Pandemic: Day 21

I felt pretty productive today.

My sister dropped off a few homemade masks for us and the neighbors today. She stayed just a bit to say Hi to my parents. (They talked through the glass door.)

I'm refraining from news outlets and social media commenting. I'm trying to get back into my "little world" where I don't feel like this is as stressful as the "big world" makes me feel.

If that makes any sense.

I made a couple art journal pages today. These are part of the Day to Day Dyalog "challenge".

These are April 3 and 4.
Not sure how much "art" I'll get done tomorrow. I'm still trying to get unemployment and it's an all day affair to try to get through to anyone either on-line or by phone. But hopefully, I'll get my Easter Egg tree done tomorrow...a real one. Out in my yard.

Stay Home and Stay Safe!
Wear a mask when you go out.
Help wherever you can.
Don't be an idiot.
-Wy
(Those last two are good advice all round!)

Global Pandemic: Day 20

Hey, I managed to do a page today!

I'm trying to stay away from the news this weekend and focus on my own little world. Back to the global stuff on Monday.

This is my page for April 2. It's okay. I'm trying to use this to spark some creativity for larger projects. (I keep telling myself I need to start more Divination Cards!)

Have a good weekend!
Stay home! (If 90% of us stayed home, the virus would be gone in 14 days. Just do it!)
THANK YOU, Essential Workers and Healthcare workers!
Wear a mask! It can't hurt.
-Wy

Global Pandemic: Day 16

Nice day today.
I got a great start on my Dyalog. I've decided to try to use stuff from my hoard that has been kicking around for a while. When I abandoned my craft space in the basement last Fall, I left a lot of my art journaling supplies down there, like paints, and spray inks. I haven't opened a jar of Dylusions paint since November last year. So I wasn't too surprised to find some of it was dried up or unusable. But I found enough that is good and that's what I'm using.

I know I have to clean out that space before I'll ever use it again. I have to pull out every item, every piece of furniture, every single piece and organize, sort, and decide whether it stays or goes. It's a huge project. I literally want to remove everything from the room so that I can clean the carpet or remove it or something. (Let's just say, I've got to do something with it as it's beginning to smell a bit like cat piss.)

That means, it's a HUGE project. Not just sorting through my stash. It's a whole shifting of stuff.

But hey, what else have I got to do?

Anyway, I took a few photos of a few pages that I've got started in the Dyalog. I'm using a dot grid and it was the only one I had that wasn't started with something. I knew it was meant for great things!

 I'm going to add a few notes just for my personal interest, and in case I need to remember what I used. I'm trying to use up the 4 bottles of Distress Paint I have.
So my warm colorway is: Abandoned Coral (Distress), Fossilized Amber (Distress), and Vanilla Custard (Dylusions).
My cool colorway is: Lucky Clover (Distress), Mermaid Lagoon (Distress), and Mushy Peas (Dylusions).
I used mainly a palette knife to apply the paint so that it would dry relatively quickly as I don't have a gelli plate or brayer. This is a bit new for me; my pages have a lot of white space left on them. I don't usually do that. I like to have a base color(s) but because I needed them to dry quickly (my heat tool wasn't at the ready), I decided to give this a go. I figure if I get too stuck on it, I can always spray it with inks later.
I used mostly smaller stencils, a variety from my stash for various companies.
Three single pages, I coated with black paint. I did stencil a bit on one of them.

I haven't gotten to the frames or the calendar part yet but I'll try that tomorrow.

See? Just get a start. The rest will come about day by day.
Stay well and STAY HOME!
-Wy