The colour of hope

I’m doing two #100dayprojects, and am up to day 84. One of them is about making a collage a day, and I’ve been playing along with Froyle, as she inspires us to try different colours. This week she asked what colour represents hope for us. My initial thought was orange but, the more I thought about it, that’s not true. I love orange, it’s about fire and passion and danger, not hope.

For me hope is a mix of blues and greens; the colours of nature and the sea. The land and waterways being healthy is what will give me hope for earth. I particularly love the colour of the Hokitika Gorge, and the greens of the land as it meets the blue of the distant hills on the West Coast. When I’m there I create lovely gelli prints inspired by the land around me. When I get home I stop. Not because I’m home, but because – as beautiful as it is – the land around me doesn’t inspire me in quite the same way.

Here’s the first of this week’s collages inspired by the colour of hope.

Circling back

I’ve been learning to draw faces. Today is day 50 of this #100dayproject. I can draw a recognisable face with no real effort now. What I can’t reliably do is convey a specific emotion, but hopefully in the next 50 days that will come.

I’m also doing #100daysofcollage with Froyle Art and loving it. We’re doing a different colour each week. These are in a small Dylusions journal, so not overly time consuming. I’m using up some of my stash of gelli print and hand printed papers.

But I’m also circling back to my earliest art journal love, Tim Holtz and Distress. Sometimes I put it away for a bit, but I always come back. I just got some new paper dolls, transparent wings, and some other bits and pieces. Heaven! Thanks to Fiona at Create for having great stock.

Using my new Tim Holtz supplies, and some Finnabair rub ons.

The first face I tried, and some of my most recent. Centre top is today one.

A few recent collages from the series.

Journal homage to Dr Wayne Dyer

I’ve been a follower of Dr Wayne W Dyer for decades. I have his books, CDs etc. and refer to them semi regularly. A while ago I bought a withdrawn library book, The essential Wayne Dyer collection. I’ve taken out all the key messages, which I’ll handwrite into my journal; the act of writing helps build neural links. I’m gelli printing on some of the pages and I’ll use them in my art journals.

I’ve been making a small art journal of collages and adding words or phrases I’ve cut out of the book. Seeing them helps me remember his key messages, and creating art with them further develops the long term memories because, for me, art involves emotion.

I recently started following Froyle and she’s doing a #100daysofcollage project. I’m already doing a face a day for 100 days but her enthusiasm has won me over and I’m going to do my Wayne Dyer journal as another 100 day project. Here’s some of my first pages.