Journaling with the Snow, again!!!

This is what I woke up to this morning...see any mountains?   Neither did I...and it continued most of the day!!!  I told you the 'S' word was in the forecast for the next couple of days!!!

Oh well, here are a couple more pictures from my day at the Tulip Festival.

These are the watercolor-filled pens that I purchased...

Well, I did try to use them and it is obvious that I need some more practice.   I created a simple image of fruit outlined with a black marker...

But when I used the watercolor-filled pens - on wet paper - I could not control the amount of watercolor that came out nor could I blend the colors as much as I wanted.   

I then tried using my solid watercolors and mixing on a palette.  The difference is very apparent.   I think it is much better.

So I am thinking that maybe I will be using the watercolor in the pens much like I do with my other watercolors and mix in a palette.   What do you think?   

If anyone is familiar with using these pens, I would appreciate any hints you can give.   I do like the idea of using them, just now sure how to do so.

Here's another watercolor which I will be using as the background for a journal page.   I liked the effect of the background showing through the petals.   What about you?

By the way, did you know that Strathmore (the art paper folks) offer free workshops online.   I found out last week and I've signed up for the 'Visual Journal Online Workshop Series'.  I'll let you know how I do.   You might want to check them out...they are free!!!

Thanks for visiting...

My Journey Of Change...

I am sometimes really astounded that my husband died three and a half months ago.   I feel that he is very close to me...and I hope I always will.   Tears are still around, not all the time, and mostly at night... 

But the really good thing is that I feel he is encouraging me to get on with living my life.  I know that those feelings come from the fact that our marriage was very supportive of each of us and that support was understood to continue with the surviving spouse.  Still it is comforting to have that knowledge.

I really want to get back to the east coast, but I also am entertaining the idea of getting a small camping trailer and traveling.   It suddenly dawned on me that it was not an either/or situation.   There is no reason that I can't do both.  

I figure that I can continue to tackle my writing assignments on the road as easily as in my apartment.  And think of the all the places I can blog about...life does go on.   Thanks for all your support.