In the Storm

Hi there. Happy weekend everyone.

We're in the storm zone today. The snow zone. Let's see how much we actually get, and I hope we don't lose power.

Today's journal page for my Let's Face It challenge at Art Journal Journey is appropriate, not for the snow, but for the rough seas that will be accompanying this coastal storm. 

My page today  actually began as I was going through my embossing folders and found this one with these great waves. For some reason, I immediately thought of making a wild wavy ocean tossing boats around on it.  To do that I used some blue lightweight cardstock and made several copies of embossed waves. I rubbed a blue ink pad over them for some contrast,  cut the waves out of the paper that went through the machine and then I layered them on my page.

Before I glued down my waves, I stamped a partially inked captain's face. I wanted to include the face, but I wanted only part of his face. More like a memory or a ghost, because this scene is really about the waves.

To make the ship, I stamped  the image on acetate and rough cut it close to the stamped lines. Then I colored and inserted it partially behind some waves. The reason I used acetate was I knew I could never fussy cut the thin lines of the masts close enough, and by stamping on acetate I could create the ship without a white paper border around my image. The fish are stamped directly on the page and colored with opaque gel pens, and the compass is stamped, colored and fussy cut from white paper. I finished by added the blue tape line along the bottom of the page.

The Let's Face It challenge at Art Journal Journey runs through Monday.

I took a second drive to the beach this past week. I went back to Salisbury State Reservation in Massachusetts looking for more snowy owls, but I didn't have any luck seeing owls. I did get a walk in though.

It's been cold enough for sea ice to form, but with the waves, some of the ice  had broken up into  interesting piles. (Here's a little science tidbit for you too. If you don't know, ice is always made from fresh water and any impurities in that fresh water. In salt water, as ice forms, it pushes out much the salt, but as the unfrozen water  near the ice gets saltier, it needs even colder temperatures to freeze. In more everyday life, this same phenomena explains why roads get salted or brined to keep from getting icy.)

Whether you knew (or cared) about sea ice or not, these photos look cold.

The sky was once again interesting, especially with the contrails from planes. And in this next photo you can just make out the loon too.

I bet the water is no where near  as calm today with the storm and probably looks more like in my art than photo.

Enough from me today. I hope if you are in the storm zone you don't get too much, and otherwise, have a wonderful start to your weekend.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.