October Journal pages 25 & 26

I finally finished the Journal pages for last week.

The prompt for the 25th was What's Outside My Window? This is basically what's outside my window - if you ignore the fence, the overgrown weeds and the two disintegrating chicken pens on the other side of it. (Which I did). Then this is close. Mostly.

Oct 25 whats outside my window

The prompt for the 26th was - A different view outside the window and in her dreams she could fly.
My "Dream" place to live would  have snow capped mountains on one side and a beach on the other.

Oct 26 She Could fly

October Journal

The journal prompt for the 18th was to jump into a book or a movie and what character would you be. I really couldn't think of a book or a movie that I would want to be in unless I was a minor character like maybe the wealthy relative that "doesn't" get killed off. So I just put a couple of stick folk jumping into a fairy tale. Castles, knights, dragons and damsels helping the distressed.

Oct 18 Jump into a book

 The prompt for the 19th was Masks. The thing that came to mind were the Comedy & Tragedy Masks. I didn't realize until I was finished that I had used the colors from an earlier prompt. Lime green, purple and blue, which I really like together. I think it needs something though. Ya think? I'll have to work on it more.

Oct 19 Masks

The 22nd - What door in your life is begging to be opened? There are too many doors to just choose one! This is the first time I have tried anything Zetti-like. I think I like it.

Oct 22 What door to open?

The 23rd was Daydreams and Nightmares. I couldn't get a good scan of this for some reason but the butterfly is done in a shimmery watercolor paint that you can't really see in the scan.

Oct 23 Daydreams and Nightmares

The 24th was the Wisdom Monkeys, you know, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

Oct 24 the wisdom monkeys

Thanks for looking.

Friedensriech Hundertwasser

On the journaling group we were to do something in the style of Friedensriech Hundertwasser. I'm not really a fan so I had to talk myself into doing it. I may have been able to come up with something better if I would have worked at it longer but I just got tired of it. Here's my page. Thanks for looking.

In the style of Friedensriech Hundertwasser

Copy Cat

This weeks journal challenge was Copy Cat Creativity. We were to copy or make our own version of the Edvard Munch painting, The Scream. I think the painting is totally creepy and don't care for it at all so it took me all week to get to work on it but I finally came up with something.

challenge 10 Copy Cat

If you would like to join in the weekly challenge they are posted every Monday on Raevens blog.

More October Journal

The prompt for Friday 12th was Lyrics from a song. This isn't usually hard for me, I make a lot of pages with songs in mind but this one just didn't work for me. My first try was a very small solitary man walking at the bottom of a very large page. Nowhere Man? He was certainly nowhere. I ended up doing one of my favorites from Louis Armstrong. "What a Wonderful World"  I'm not really happy with it but ya gotta take the bad with the good. 

Oct 12 Song Lyrics

Mondays prompt was Stripes. At first the page resembled really bad wallpaper but after Owl moved in it was much better and he doesn't seem to mind.

Oct 15 - Stripes

Tuesday 16th was Spiraling. Which is a little on the silly side.

Oct 16 - Spiraling

Wednesday 17th was Rain. I went through several ideas with this one but when I ended up not being able to cover the mess underneath up . . . I painted it a very dark grey and drew on it with a white pencil. I'm actually pretty happy with it. Surprise! That almost 'never' happens!

Oct 17 - Rain

So here I am all caught up again. Until tomorrow!

doodles

This is a blotter page that actually looks pretty good. Part of it was leftover paint on the household items stamps. I like it. The bird I doodled while the paint was drying in my October journal.

blotter page

doodle bird

Journal pages 8 -9 - 10 - 11

The prompt for Monday the 8th was a favorite story or poem from childhood. I really don't remember any that I really liked but I did have a favorite song that my mom sang to me. So I used it as my inspiration. I had my mom write the words down for me and I stuck it in a pocket on the page.

THE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM CONE

My mama said if I'd be good she'd send me to the store

She said she'd make some gingerbread if I would sweep the floor

She said if I would make the beds and watch the telephone

That she would send me out to get a chocolate ice cream cone

And so she did the things she said, and she made me some gingerbread

Then I went out just me alone and got my chocolate ice cream cone.

While coming home I stubbed my toe upon a big old stone

And need I tell you that I dropped my chocolate ice cream cone

A little puppy came along and took a great big lick

and so I hit that mean ole dog with just a little stick

Then he bit me where I sit down and he chased me all over town

And now I'm lost can;t find my home, all because of a chocolate ice cream cone.

(She sang, I cried 'cause the little girl was lost and begged her to sing it again and again).

The Chocolate Ice Cream Cone

Tuesday the 9th was using things around the house as stamps. Looking for things I discovered that most things in my house are round, except the credit card and the image that the potato bag left. It will make a great background.

household items for stamps

This prompt for Wednesday the 10th was blueberry. The only thing that came to mind was . . . well, blueberries. 

blueberry

Today's prompt was falling leaves. I love trees. I draw a lot of trees. I was going to do the background with some leaf rubbings but all the leaves are crispy from lack of water so that didn't work out.