You know, when I show you pictures of snow and ask if you see any mountains? Well, this is what you would be seeing without the snow...
The pictures are through a very dirty sliding door, so their quality is not the best...but you can see the mountains very easily...that is, when there's no snow!!!
Tuesday brings more journal pages. Thanks to Joanne S. who gave me some tips on using the watercolor-filled pens, I decided to try it again. So here's my latest journal page using the watercolor pens as well as markers.
I begin with a blank page...
and added words...
I added a light wash...
which I deepened with more color..
I then added distinct stripes...
Next I added some pictures and borders...
And finally some text...
Remember my flower watercolor page? Well, this is what I have done with that page...
And finally, here is my completed zentangle...
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My Journey of Change:
I've been rereading Simple Abundance A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. Today's thoughts were especially interesting for me. The author was addressing positive and negative artistic space. One sentence really resonated with me...'It's difficult for many of us to accept that emptiness - in life or in a living room - can have a positive influence.'...Wow!!! She went on to encourage readers to be comfortable with the emptiness and not rush to fill it...but to wait until something 'authentic' appears on your radar.
Really encouraging words for people like me who have lost loved ones. When my husband died, I didn't rush to fill the void with something. As a matter of fact, I am still waiting and becoming comfortable with the 'emptiness'. It is nice, though, to have some affirmation on that wait.
And the 'emptiness' is not sad, nor overwhelming, nor even uncomfortable. It just is. I actually do not even like to think of it as 'emptiness'...I prefer to think of it as possibility. The empty space around an object is just as important as the object... The empty space surrounding my life as it is now is full of possibility.