T Stands For Dream Big

 

I started this late at night.  I used my OTT full spectrum light to see and photograph it clearly.

I first created a grid using my black water soluble crayon.  I then wrote the words in graffiti style on the side using a fine tip Sharpie.

 

Next I got out my watercolors (yes, I've made a mess of them over time), and added water to the small round containers.

It didn't take long to create this background using light brown watercolor. Then I got busy creating and layering and forgot to take further step out photos.

Now I'm serving this Dream Big journal page at my dining room table.

As I got a bit closer, I noticed the lighting wasn't as good.

Perhaps if I get a bit closer it will help.

One thing is quite obvious.  Even with all these layers in place, everything here all embellishments are recycled.

Yes, everything.

That includes even the embellishments at the bottom.

Can you see the tea bag?

Let's start at the top and work our way down.  The first layer is a crossword puzzle I gave up on when I couldn't answer even the first words.  I dipped the page in spent tea to get the color I was going for.  The second layer is from a dressmaker's pattern.

 

On the left is corrugated cardboard that originally protected the old incandescent light bulbs from breaking.  I miss that packaging.  It was SO useful.  On top of the cardboard I placed part of a tea bag and a piece of the crossword puzzle I didn't dip in the tea bath.

Part of a tea bag sits on top of the circle

which is a piece of used sandpaper I ran through my circle punch to sharpen it.

Now we've identified what is in the top grid,

let's return to the bottom grid. Here you find a partial sheet of sheet music, over which I layered a used tea bag and three buttons left over from various clothing I once owned.  The flower was from a handbag that had seen better days.

As you can see, other than the 110 lb cardstock, the water soluble crayon, the watercolors, and the Sharpie ink pen, every embellishment started its life in a very different use. I hope you like how I recycled these pieces and I hope it may have sparked your interest in using what some people would consider junk in your art.  

 

This is Day 6 of 22, where I repurposed several recyclables and junk into art.  I'm also joining Art Journal Journey because I was Inspired By recyclables.

As an update, the tea bags are finally dry from last week.  It has taken that long for them to dry in my cold house. 

I needed to turn the green tea bags over though because they weren't quite dry yet.  The cardstock they are laying on looks promising.

Now it's your turn to share your drink related post.  It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and most assuredly not just this year.