HOT!!!

This is a scheduled post.  I'll be offline until Saturday, so I hope someone will link this post at Art Journal Journey. Don't worry.  I'll be back to host Second on the 2nd and I'll be around to visit everyone once I'm online.

It's the first of the month and time to welcome a returning artist to Art Journal Journey.  Please welcome our Austrian friend Rike at Rike's Art.  Rike's theme is Fruit and Veggies. 

Obviously, I call this journal page Hot!

It's all about the hot peppers.

There's lots of heat from the peppers,

but also from the hot colors, too.

Since it's the first of the month, I've also used my new stamp gifted me by Valerie to document the date.

For this page, I began by swiping some quinacridone gold at two opposing corners of the 110 lb card stock substrate.  Next, I laid down a full sheet of pepper and southwest (U.S.) inspired tissue.  Over that I laid down a strip of green and red pepper tissue.  Both of these tissues came from a local restaurant.  It never hurts to ask for tissue if you have a use for it.  Next, I cut a rectangle of handmade green paper, over which I sewed a piece of red/orange paper, then more of the handmade paper. Over that I applied a piece of cut pepper from the tissue.   Next, I cut another piece of handmade paper to which I added a red pepper from the smaller red and green pepper tissue. I also wrote the word HOT using a stencil.  Finally, I added two real ornamental peppers.
 
Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me today.  I hope you will join Rike, Susi, Bleubeard, and me this month at Art Journal Journey with your own art inspired by Fruit and Veggies.  Please be aware, we want to see your altered book pages, journal pages, loose journal art, canvases, fabric pages, and digital art.  However, we cannot accept cards, ATCs, ATCoins, tags, or 3-D art, and will be forced to delete your entry.

This is also Day 1 of Art Every Day Month, 
and I created a journal page for Art Journal Journey's monthly challenge.