Eye on the Prize

The Queen is sooooo happy !

The sun is out for the 4th day in a row !!!

Do you know how good this feels ?

Gotta get out there so here is a short Monday post.

Just a few shots of some recent art journal pages.

"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in one's hands,

for the hands execute but the eye judges" Michelangelo

I am working on keeping my compass in my eye right now...

Eye on the prize, so to speak...

Art journal page and details - July 6th, 2009

Collage elements from Stock photography book, and anatomy book images found on Flick'r,

background painted with Caran d'arche watercolor crayons, black Indian ink line work.

(Click to enlarge any of these photos)

"Pentimento" - art journal page, July 3rd, 2009,

bautched photo transfers, Caran d'Arche crayon background,

alphabet stamps from Michael's dollar bin for lettering on the bottom, Indian Ink details

Read the word on Patti Digh's site in one of her recent writings and had to look up the definition.

Always love to learn a new word.

Especially one that applies so well !

pentimento : the emergence of lines, images, etc. in a painting

that become visible as oil paints grow transparant with age,

thus revealing the artist's earlier ideas.



If it were not for my earlier ideas, I would not be where I am now.


Off to enjoy the here and now,

off to have my day in the sun...

Happy Monday, my Beautiful Friends !