Wednesday Art

 Hi everyone. It's already the middle of the week again, and we've made it into the double digit days of the month. August, please slow down. I love autumn, but I am in no rush for winter to return.

Today I have some art to share. First let me show a piece for Chris' When We Were Young challenge at Art Journal Journey. I think most people can relate to this experience.

It's that time of year, or almost that time of year, when kids are getting ready to go back to school. Right now there are so many back to school ads just about everywhere I look. When I was young, I was always excited to go back to school, except the year I started high school. That year I was terrified.

I started by inking my page, which looks a bit splotchy, but also works because it doesn't interfere with the images I chose to use.

I die cut the apples with an ancient Spellbinder's die.  Back to school used to always be September (at least here in New England), which of course is also apple season. I wonder if that's where the saying "an apple for your teacher" came about.

I  had the math flash card in my paper stash. The black and white stamped images on the bottom of the page are from an ancient stamp set by October Afternoon, and the 2 stamped phases on the top of the page are from another older set by Oxford Impressions. I drew, colored and fussy cut the pencil which seemed to be what the page needed, especially based on the quote. 

And then I finished the page with some number and alphabet washi tape.

I also have a second journal page to share today.

 I am linking up this page  to More Than Words. I've been meaning to join this challenge for awhile now, and finally, I've managed to get a page made that works for their challenge. This month they are asking you to use a map of some kind and also the word adventure.

You can see my map is the globe.

I started my page with some tissue paper and a page from an old book. Then I added some Art By Marlene images. They ended up being too bright for where I wanted to go with this page, so I lightly brushed some grey paint over the whole page.  While it was wet I wiped much of it off. Then I sprayed some white ink on to give my page for some extra motion and details, since travel and adventure often require a bit of movement. (Unless of course you are armchair traveling.)

Finally I cut out this great lady from a Stamperia cut out book and added the ric-rac because it reminded me of waves. And from the look of her dress, some of her world travel will probably be on the ocean.  I also think she might be looking into the future with her spyglass, and perhaps she even has a time machine to take her to the time of air travel.

I am also going to link up this page to Creative Artiste Mixed Media blog challenge #85. The theme is anything goes as long as you use various types of media on your page.

That's it for me today. Have a great rest of your day.