Grow A Little Each Day

 Art journaling has been pushed to the very back of the plate 

as we work on books.

And, 

I miss it.

So this week I decided to check out one of the

weekly art journal groups I am in

and do a prompt.

Jane posted the weekly prompt about gardens and what they mean to us. This pastel-ish piece of art is one I have long admired on pinterest. You can check out the original post by the artist that created it here.  I wanted to recreate the feel of this art without copying the original artist. Cause that isn't cool.

 I started with this watercolored background in 

my art journal. I made it with a simple kids'

watercolor pan set from the school row

at Wal-Mart.

 I used Tim Holtz's Distress Stains and a 

couple stencils to start my framework.

The stains were a little more soupy than I

recalled and didn't play great with the

stencil, but that's alright.

It adds to the rustic feel. 

Right?

Hahahaha!

 When I started outlining for definition,

I was greatly disappointed to find that my

microns and other fine liners would not

work over the distress stains.

So much so that I ruined three pens before I decided

to throw in the towel and resort to gel pens.

 What you see here is the result of about

5-6 different types of gel pens and markers.

Not real happy that it was so hard to draw on top

of these stains.

I finished everything off by 'sacrificing if necessary' a graphic 3 micron.  Thankfully I was able to fill in those borders without killing another pen.
Grow. A great prompt from Jane. And I learned and will 'grow' from doing the project. Hahahahaha! It was still fun anyway!