Red

 

I'm once again joining my friend Sheila, who many of you know as Orange Esmeralda, our host this month at Art Journal Journey.   

Sheila's theme is A Single Flower.  And since Try it on Tuesday's latest challenge is Say it with Flowers, I'm once again joining them, too.

 

I call this grid collage Red.

The background looks pink compared to the flower,

but that's because the red watercolor I used in the background

was a red leaning in the pink spectrum, while the flower was leaning to the red in the orange spectrum.

The rest of the grid, including the butterflies

and button were what I call the support staff

for the single flower.

I started this page by laying down red watercolor on 110 lb. cardstock.  I cut the flower from an old calendar.  There had been two flowers and a few dying blooms that I tried to hide by surrounding them with scrapbook paper, and drawing attention away from the dead blooms by using the butterflies I cut from a note pad.  To fill the rest of the page, I added the shorthand text.  The button was an after thought when I felt the grid needed something more.  The word Red was created from a deconstructed word game card.  In fact, several things I used in this spread were recycled. 

 

Thanks beyond belief for joining Bleubeard and me today.  We are really grateful you stopped by.  We would also like to see you at Art Journal Journey and Try it on Tuesday with your take on these two flower inspired themes. Bleubeard wanted to chase the butterflies, but I explained they don't flutter.  He gave up and decided to take a nap.  I hope we didn't put you to sleep.