My Thursday Art Is All About the Ladies

Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. 

This week has been flying but then I've had my daughter here, and she definitely has kept me busy.

Today I have both a tag and a journal page to share with you. I'll start with the tag.

Michele's challenge at Tag Tuesday is "Time and Clocks", and you can certainly see plenty of clocks on my tag.

I cut this tag from a time punch card, and I decided to use the printed side as my base. I stamped some little clocks on it, and then I painted  over the clocks with some blue acrylic paint.  I also added a piece of paper tape up along the the middle to cover a dark green line on the time card itself. The line was a bit distracting, and the tape is hardly noticeable. You can't see much of it once I added the woman and the clock face, except for a tiny bit of the top.

I then stamped the partial clock face. I also colored and fussy cut it for the bottom corner. After that I added the TH lady,  my clock, some dots and the sticker quote. Even though this lady's hair flips are all inside her hat, she would be pretty disheveled if her hair was partially falling loose.

One thing I noticed about this lady is how small her waist is. She must have a corset pulled so tight she can barely breath. No wonder why she has that slightly far off look on her face. I am glad corsets (and girdles) are long gone. Hurrah for that.

And for the latest "Let's Face It" challenge at Art Journal Journey, I have this page that I call The Face in the Mirror.

The idea behind this page begins with a true story. Back in my teaching days, one of my friends was walking down the hall between classes and said something to a student. She then heard the student (they didn't know each other) say to their friend that the old lady over there told them to stop doing whatever it was they were doing. My friend was in shock that she was referred to as the old lady. 

For some reason when I was thinking of page ideas, that story came to mind. I think we all probably have a certain view of ourselves that may not be exactly what we see when we  look in the mirror.  And of course, other people may see us in a different light than we are or believe we are.  Teenagers especially.

I made this page by first stamping the lady's face on some plain watercolor paper. Then I die cut the mirror frame, glued it down, and put some clear drying glue over the inside of the frame. Once that dried I could used Gelatos and a wet paint brush to color my background. Then I stenciled the little pink x's with some acrylic paint. While that dried I drew the lady, who I'll call Gloria, on some white paper, and then colored and fussy cut her. 

After adding Gloria, I stamped some images and also added some bits of printed tissue paper to my page. I  added my question with some alphabet stickers. Finally, to pull the page together, I sponged a bit of white gesso lightly on parts of the page. 

 Gloria has a new coat and hat that she thinks will make her look glamorous. Whether they really do or not, we won't know, because the magic mirror Gloria has only lets us see what Gloria wants us to see.

On second thought, a magic mirror like the one Gloria has that might be good to have sometimes. Smile.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.