It’been a while since I made my previous blogpost and to be honest, I feel slightly out of touch with it. I have missed writing here and I haven’t done much art either. Between my day-job and making the Traveler’s Notebooks, I don’t have a lot of time left. I even had to make a waiting list for the Traveler’s Notebooks, I just can’t make them as fast as they are being requested.
It’s a good thing people are so kind and patient and it’s great meeting people from all over the world.
Mostly I tend to sneek a peek at facebook and post some pictures there when I made a Traveler’s Notebook or insert that I like, but sitting down and writing a blogpost, just wasn’t something I could wrap my head around.
With making the waiting list I feel I have finally got everything back under control and I even started doing some art again.
So today I finally shipped the next art journal from the Round Robin on it’s way to
Tracy. It’s
Lee’s journal, a beautiful bound book with a canvas cover and gorgeous painted papers inside. A joy to work in.
It arrived a while back.
Filled with some of lee’s beautiful painted papers.
I had a hard time picking one to work on, because they were all so inviting.
I did manage to find one =)
I added some acrylic paint and some stamps.
Free handed a girl with acrylic paint.
Found a quote to go with the theme: “What do you see when you look in the mirror.”
The quote is by George Bernard Shaw:
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
I’m not overly exited about my handwriting, but I do like the way the spread turned out.
I wanted the next spread to be completely different, so I picked a white page and started with Gesso on the white, unpainted, background.
After which I glued some circles onto the pages.
Got a little carried away and completely forgot to make progress pics…
So all I have for you are pictures of the completed spread.
I honestly couldn’t tell you what I did on this page.
But I can tell you the quote I used =)
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
-Ernest Holmes
I felt it was really fitting for this page, with it’s almost dream like appearance… a little surreal.
I rather like surreal, so I’m quite happy with it.
I hope you enjoyed watching these pages and I hope to be back soon with Susan’s journal… and a new project I’ve embarked upon, called the Traveling Dori, but I’ll tell you all about that when next we meet, since it’s voyage hasn’t started yet.
Falcon Travelers 
so beautiful Monique!
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Beautiful work, and good to see you around again! Valerie
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Very nice!
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Beautiful free hand face painting on that gorgeous background.
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We are almost at the end of the journey now and these pages look beautiful. I'm looking forward to adding my own and sending it back to Lee.
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beautiful pages,dear monice,so nice you are around again.
greetings jeannette
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