Pairs

It's once again time to join Rike at Rike's Art our host this month at Art Journal Journey.   Rike's theme is Fruit and Veggies.  I also want to thank those of you who left kind remarks about my fall.  I was in such bad shape, I forgot to link to AEDM yesterday until late in the day.  I am even sorer today than when it happened, but I guess that's to be expected.  I am fairly sure nothing is broken.

Today I've been influenced by two of my favorite journal artists: Jo whose recent post inspired both the design and the colors, and Chris whose pair of pears inspired the title.

Granted, my spread looks absolutely NOTHING like either of these friends journal pages whose art inspired this page (except for the pears, of course).

I remembered that Jo had used gray to compliment her pears.

I thought that would be a great background color for the colors I chose for the pears and oranges.

However, once I photographed the page, the background looked dark blue.

Even the word

"Pairs" didn't photograph well.  It even looks like I made a mistake on the "S," but it's just how the paint photographed.


For this page, I began by gluing two pieces of cardboard together which I then trimmed to 8.5 X 11 inches (21,59 X 27,94 centimeter).  I then painted gray craft paint on the page.  I applied it quite heavy because I was going for lots of texture.  It's so cold in my craft room, it took several days for the paint to dry.  When it did, I straightened flattened the page, and in the process, got a few cracks, which I loved because it added even more texture.

While I was waiting for the background to dry, I printed and cut two sets of pears and oranges, colored them using water soluble crayons (the gift from Cindy that keeps on giving), then fussy cut them.  I also colored two sheets of card stock with orange and green water soluble crayons, and cut two pair with a MS circle punch.  When everything was dry, I adhered the pairs to the page, then stamped two images from a rubber eraser I cut myself using a kitchen knife.  To complete the spread, I added the word "Pairs" through a letter stencil using a metallic gel pen.  I added the dots around one of the circles using the same gel pen.

Thank you so very much for joining Bleubeard and me today.  We love it when you drop by to visit.  We want to thank Jo and Chris for inspiring this journal page. We would also like to see you at AEDM and Art Journal Journey.  And before you ask, I fussy cut the pears and oranges before I fell.  Otherwise, this spread would NOT have happened today.

This is Day 22 of Art Every Day Month (AEDM), hosted by Leah Piken Kolidas and I created a journal page for Art Journal Journey.