The elephant in the room

Today I'm sharing another page at Art Journal Journey.  For this, I'm once again joining Yvonne from Meggy's Way with her theme A World of Fantasy.  

I have some art friends who like to see wonky pages in their altered books or art journals.  The fact the pages don't lie flat seems to appeal to some.  For me, not so much.  I try hard to get my pages flat so they aren't so wonky.  However, after days and days of trying to get this page to lie flat, I have given up.  I just hope it straightens out a bit when I add it to my large art journal.

I went for a bit of humor today with this piece I call The Elephant in the Room.

In fact, "let's talk about the elephant in the room"

while I share a few close-up photos.

Of course, this is the real elephant in the room!


For this page, I began by fussy cutting five elephants, then began coloring one using my metallic gel pens.  It took me nearly two hours to fill in that one, so the other four were colored using watercolor crayons.  Next, I adhered three napkins to 110 lb. card stock.  To those napkins, I stamped swirls and snowflakes, which I thought would add to the fantasy.  Then I adhered the colored elephants to the page and wrote the sentiment using a blue felt pen.  I hadn't adhered one of the napkins as well as I should have, so my pen caught on it when I wrote the words "talk" and "the." 

Thank you for dropping by today.  The incredibly lovable Bleubeard and I are delighted you chose to spend some time here and hope to also see you at Art Journal Journey.