Seeing Red

 Hi everyone. Happy February to you. It's good to be one month closer to spring, even though February is often the snowiest month here in New Hampshire. 

Thank you again Mia for hosting over at Art Journal Journey during January. And once again, I also want to thank everyone who joined us with their photo journal pages. It was a fun month, and I loved seeing the different types and arrangement of photos that people used.

As it's a new month, it is time for a new challenge. This month I am hosting. 

I love color, and for a while I have wanted to pick out and focus on just  one color. I thought it would be fun to see what can be learned and where art can go if I did this.  Since I am hosting at Art Journal Journey, I figured this month would be a good time to give this single color theme a try. Plus,  there's the  benefit that we can all see what other people can do with that color.  Maybe we can all learn one or two new things.

When picking out my color I was thinking of blue or maybe  green because they are my favorites, but then I came across this rubber stamp in my collection  that helped me make my decision.

This month the new challenge is

Seeing Red. 

(Or should I write it Seeing Red?)

Here's my first page for the month. You can see I added my poem to this collaged page.

I made my page with lots of red items from my stash, including tickets from a collage sheet, some  panels that I cut out of a magazine page after I painted them red, a die cut heart as well as some red letter stickers. To pull my collage together I splattered some white paint on my page, I left the stamped poem white, and I used some black paper rings. (What do you call those things you use on notebook holes?) I finished my page by using the round end of some foam pipe insulation and white paint to stamp the big circles.

And no, you do NOT need to make a page that is almost all red as I did, but please use red in a way that it stands out on your page. The theme of your page is yours. You could use red objects like apples, or you could make your background red.  And since it is February, if you like the heart shape as I do, you could add red hearts.

But if you're feeling it, you could make a totally red page. That is up to you.

And remember there are different shades of red, so feel free to use any shade of red, and since pink is just red with lots of white in it, feel free to use pink also. I'd even say red-orange works, but keep it on the red side. The same could be said for a red-purple color too.

I believe it was Picasso who went through different art periods, so this will be my and hopefully your red period. Smile.

And I know red can be difficult to use, so I'm also hoping that none of us will get absolutely sick  or frustrated with red as the month goes on.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you'll join in to my challenge. I'm looking forward to seeing your red inspired art at AJJ.

PS: Oh yes, and let me add  the dreaded Rules at AJJ say no cards, tags, ATC's, or art other than art journaling. Any kind of art journaling is accepted, but it must be art journaling!