Superstition

I find it wonderful when the stars align and I can join my three favorite challenge blogs with a single journal page.

I chose this song, Superstition for Try it on Tuesday's latest challenge, which is Inspired by a Song or Christmas Carol because it fits Yvonne, aka Meggymay's theme Words and Numbers so well at Art Journal Journey. I have used a lot of scraps in this journal page, so I'm also joining Moo-Mania and More whose theme is Use Your Scraps.

Here is the song in its entirety.

Very superstitious, writings on the wall,
Very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall,
Thirteen-months-old baby broke the lookin' glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past

When you believe in things
you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way

There are several superstitions Stevie Wonder, who wrote and sang the song (1972), alluded to.

Thirteen is an unlucky number in most Western culture.  In fact, many high rise office buildings and housing units don't designate a 13th floor.

The 13 month old baby is quite unlucky,

because it broke the looking glass (or hand held mirror).

A ladder is another superstition.  You can't walk under a ladder or you will encounter 7 years bad luck, just like you do when you break a mirror.  Actually, walking under a ladder is DANGEROUS, and only stupid people would do that, anyway.

For some reason, black cats are supposed to bring bad luck.

I'll let you peruse these detail shots at your own speed.

I know some people are good at writing in the style of graffiti, but I'm not one of them.  In order to make the wall less naked,  I added a fortune and a scrap left from another page I'm working on. 

I got mad at myself because the washi tape I used started to peel off the image, even after I tried to re-glue it.  Then I realized when you see the posters on walls, they are often hanging askew or torn.  I decided it looked like it had been there for years.

For this journal page, I began with a sheet of 110 lb card stock that I colored with grey ink and 91% alcohol.  Unfortunately I covered over most of it. I used a chalk paint pen and my wall stencil to create the wall on which the ladder leaned and on which the graffiti was written.

The ladder and mirror were found on the internet and the mirror was fussy cut, then added to a scrap of paint chip.  The words to the song were computer generated and colored using a nearly dry green dye ink pad.  The 13 and one 7 were from two different Bingo cards.  Two 7s were stickers, as were all the letters to the title.  The two cats were from address labels my friend Sally didn't want.  The black washi tape is from TH and the white tape was a gift.  The graffiti letters on the wall were made with Crayola crayons.

Bleubeard and I are thrilled that you stopped by today.  We hope you will join us at Art Journal Journey, Try it on Tuesday, and Moo-Mania and More, too.