It's a monkey in the tree!

Today's photo journal page is of a female gibbon monkey that took me two hours to photograph at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago two years ago.  She would not sit still but I loved her.  It was worth the wait because she one me second place in a photo competition.  You can't tell from the small picture but she looked right at me and you can see her eyes so clearly.

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I love making background papers!

I have two more 5x7 background papers to show you that I made. I really like the small size. These two might end up on cards for Easter.

 

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No Mojo, Inks Blots, Therapy oh my!

Hello! Todays journal pages for Art Journal Every Day was a challenge to myself since my mojo is walking out the door.  I work full time for a tax accountant and tax season has taken my mojo away. I'm working late nights and weekends so finding time when I'm so exhausted to make art has been very hard. For these journals pages I decided to take whatever acrylic ink I had on my table and add it to the pages and close it up to form ink blots.  I figured this can be my therapy to try and get my mojo back. The challenge was to make something out of the ink blots.  Here is what I made. It's not the greatest but it helped a little bit.

The butterfly counts not the months but moments.

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I'm Perfect!

Well, no I'm not but I thought the rest of the sentiment fit perfect for this little canvas. It is 2"x4" and it already had some acrylic ink on it but I lost interest until now.

The only thing I would have done differently is cut up the words more so they run down the side of the canvas. But I love the way it came out.

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Hope is a thing with feathers

I've been playing in my photo art journal and found my photograph of a blue jay. I decided to use tree templates from Crafters Workshop and a wood grain embossing folder on a manila tag to look like branches.

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