Showing posts with label cottage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cottage. Show all posts

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Journey of the Moleys III

My latest moleskin entry was for a theme "a little bit about yourself" for Bex

I've been playing with image transfers off and on so thought I'd incorporate a few here too. So the photo of the cottage that hubby and I built and the puppy is using gel medium image transfer. The puppy transfer is from an ATC of watercolor and pen that I made earlier in the year.

The background and other oval images are watercolor and ink. The original intent with the background was to use circles to represent family. I come from a large family, so there were to be lots of circles. Somehow in the process circles morphed into ovals as the shapes seemed to work better. But when I was painting the background they started to look like jelly beans so I went with that. Ironically jelly beans have a meaning for me too.


Bill and I usually take Jelly Belly jelly beans with us when we go camping and we have a few around the campfire. So...jelly beans they are. But family they are too. Lots of flavors. So the double meaning works. Silly, I know, but hey....
The other ovals are the types of things that I love. Birds, animals, nature in general.

The moley I'm working on now is on the theme "Sea". I've sketched and erased so many ideas. But now I've settled on one. But you'll have to wait for that one.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Journey of the Moleys II

I have 3 moleys in hand now, so the pressure is on. The one I'm working on currently I'm still struggling through the background. I keep changing my mind. The theme is "A Bit about Myself". So there is alot of symbolism in it. At least that's the plan. :sigh: Not sure its working out. I guess at worst, I gesso over everything and start over. Problem is I'm behind as is.

:double sigh:

I'd post a WIP, but I honestly don't want to scare anyone. All my works look horrid at first.