Experimenting with YUPO

I've been playing with watercolours on Yupo (synthetic) paper. It has no absorbency so you can do different things with paint compared to normal paper.  I've decided I LOVE it!

 

Industrial Landscape Art Journal Page

First Art Journal page for a long time. Just a warm-up really.  Scrappy sketch and a bit of blah about my current love affair with industrial landscape!

Industrial Landscape Photography - Sussex

I'm feeling inspired by Industrial and Urban Landscape at the moment, so I went out to take some pictures, for inspiration and reference.  I'm really pleased with how they turned out. Some fascinating shapes and silhouettes, and I'm seeing a kind of beauty in this kind of landscape that I've never seen before.   

 Aggregates Processing Depot at Portslade

 Gas Storage at Worthing

 NCP Car Park at Brighton 

 Aggregates Depot again

 Industrial Wasteground Portslade

Cylinders at Shoreham

I can't go out, I'm watching my hare...

I have a fascination with hares and a little personal motto: 'Chase the Hare', which I have engraved on a silver pendant round my neck. It's a reminder to try and live life at full tilt, like a greyhound chasing a hare. Sometimes I have to remind myself to keep an eye on the hare, and that's what this page is about.

Journalling everything....

I'm making pages about everything going on in my life at the moment, and now I'm even making them about what's going on in my friends' lives too.

Pretty Sandals Card

I had to wait in all day yesterday for a delivery so I spent the day making cards, just using up scraps of paper and ribbon and bits. I think this was the cutest of the ones I made. I like these pretty little shoes so much, it's a pity they aren't real!

Another Personal Journal Page

The words won't make sense to anyone except me, but I decided to blog this page because I was quite pleased with the look of the layers and the texture.
I used paint, collage, stamping, acetate overlay.