waterwalker

One of the things I enjoy doing is art journaling.

I think I like making the backgrounds the most.

I've been reading a lot of different blogs, articles and

magazines about how to do it. Then I read something

about it should be "original" not a copy of someone else's

ideas. I started getting frustrated because I was

doing so much reading about what everyone else

does and realized I needed to stop so I could come up

with some ideas of my own. I was a little frustrated

but decided to look at some of the things I've done in

the past. These aren't in a journal but they are

a type of journaling and original and the way I need to

start thinking again.

As a kid I always thought it would be neat to be

a mermaid.

This was made a little while after my Uncle Bud died.

When I saw the picture of the two boys it just made

me think of my dad and his brother and how that was

something they would have done together as kids. I liked

the first definition of Bud = brother. The butterfly

represents to me new life which I believe he has now.

and thanks to my friend Tricia because I went to her

house on two different occasions to create together.

Sometimes being somewhere different and with someone else

who's creative can help unblock your mind.

Now I need to get to work!