Maniac

Hi everyone.

This month is very quickly wrapping up. It's exciting to see how much more green the world is now compared to when this month started 28 days ago. I have some "green" photos further down in the post, but first I want to share another page for Alison's challenge at Art Journal Journey. This time I have a song from a movie.

Remember the film Flashdance that came out in 1983? One of the songs in that film is "She's a Maniac".

I saw this Art by Marlene girl on her skateboard in a booklet of images I have. In fact she looks like she might be dancing on her skateboard, which made me think of this song.

I started my page by stamping the big typed swirl images. Since I've been doing some supply cleaning as part of the spare bedroom project, I've found a few old supplies including this  set of clear stamps from Prima that I've had for probably 15 years. At least. I love finding things that haven't been used for a long time as it is like getting new supplies without having to buy them. Smile.

I stamped those swirls as well as the flowers from the same set, and then I used watercolor markers to color them. Using a wet brush, I I swirled some of the color from my images around on my page. Then using some white ink, I painted the dots and stamped some dots over them. Finally I added the girl. I  added lots of details to her with a white pen, and I used a black Sharpie to color around her so she would jump off the page.  Finally I used some those rub on letters to put in my words.

And notice the leaves on the pink flowers. Today for Rain's Art Date with the theme is leaves and branches.

Spring is always so exciting. The buds are getting really big on some of the branches in my yard.

My maple tree has been in flower also. 

 These leaves are popping out of the ground on one of my hydrangea plants.

And a few of my roses are getting leaves also.

Unfortunately I had vole damage to a few of my other roses. They ate right through the roots so even though the plant looks normal above ground, once you touch them, they come right out of the ground.

When it comes out this is what you see, a gnawed through root ball.

My peonies are really growing.

And the pop of blue and purple of my hydrangeas look pretty among the leave.

And my irises are really coming up too. 

 I've also been snapping photos of the cherry blossom buds on the branches of my weeping cherry tree.

The next step is flowers. I can see why in Japan Sakura or cherry blossoms are so revered. They're so beautiful.

Have a great day and thanks for visiting.