I joined a travelling journal group.....

The artists are from around SE Wisconsin.  Here's my first journal pages. This journal has already been sent to the next artist, and I've received number 2.  Every month we each receive a journal, for 12 consecutive months, with the last journal (the 12th month) ours to finish and keep.  However, they will be in a few travelling exhibits after that.

Anyway -- I will keep posting mine as I get them done.

This was done with layers of treasure papers (these are paper towels and other papers that I use to blot up excess paint left behind on the art table! ) The are awesome things to collect.  The 'blobs' of red in the first layer/
background are on industrial white paper towels. There are also photocopied images of old glasses & words glued on that first layer. The red squares on the outside borders are torn from papers I collected at an Asian market. The large gold rectangle on the left page is also part of those papers.

Then...a few layers of white tissue paper that I stamped quotes and images on, and then adhered to the collage.
I then embellished the collage with deep pink watercolor, and fringy yarn.  It was a process over several days.
Once it was completely dried, I pressed the book down with lots of weight to flatten the pages.  This journal is on heavy watercolor paper...and it really curled!   Left home nice and flat though.

That's it for now!
Don't forget to click on the pic for a bigger view.
M