A catch-up post

I realize I have several things I want to show, so contrary to how I normally feel about only showing one art piece at a time, I must break my rule and share two different art projects today.

First, I'm joining Gill of Gibby Frogett Craftations this month's host at Art Journal Journey where her theme is Anything With Eyes.

Originally, I planned to call this Eye Spy,

but I did something really DUMB and tried to circle the iris of the eye.

I should have known better, but of course, it was the last thing I did, and I had SO much time invested in this already.

In the end, I decided to call it "Catching the Red Eye."

This is the original image I found in a magazine, but, as I'm sure you know, I have only black ink in both my laser and my ink jet printer.

For this page, I began with my focal image I de-saturated in PhotoShop.  I then printed it using my laser printer.  Next, I colored and colored and colored and colored and (by now you get the picture) using metallic gel pens, chalk pens and Zig pens.  After several hours of this, I decided enough was enough and I glued it to a sheet of pink copier paper I outlined using one of the Zig pens.  I used my scissors to ruffle the edges of both the pink copier paper and the black construction paper.  I outlined the construction paper using a chalk pen.

I'm also joining my friend Valerie at Tag Tuesday, where her theme is Anything Goes.

I call this one "Isn't math fun?" And because there are numbers on it, I'm also joining Moo-Mania and More with their Numbers and/or Letters this fortnight.

The first two letters of Add are from a Tim Coffee set of stickers.  The last D and the 8 & 9 are from a set my friend Cindy sent me years ago.  What's amazing is these are possibly the oldest stickers I have and they stick the best of any I used.

The black numbers and ampersand are from a set of black stickers I bought a few years ago.  They didn't stick well at all.

The red numbers are vinyl and they were given to me by a friend who used to live in my neighborhood.

The rest of the large letters were also from Tim Coffee.  I outlined them with a metallic gel pen.  For some reason, I couldn't get the gel pen to go where I asked it to.   It decided to set its own path!

I started the tag by cutting a piece of watercolor paper, then colored it with three water soluble crayons (thanks Cindy).  When dry, I cut the paper into a tag, punched a hole, and added the hole reinforcement.  I then outlined the tag using a Zig marker.  I also used it to draw the Equals lines.  I used the same metallic pen to write the sentiment that I'd used to outline the numbers.

Thanks for dropping by again today.  I'm playing catch up and trying not to fall so far behind again.

Also, please join Bleubeard and me at Art Journal Journey, Moo-Mania and More, and Tag Tuesday, too.