Wednesday Art

 Hi everyone. 

I'm back today with another red journal page for the challenge at Art Journal Journey. This month the theme is Seeing Red, and if you don't yet know about the challenge,  I am hosting.

Meet Otto. He loves to ride his bicycle and to wear red.

For today's journal page I went with a darker red background. This paper had the white swirly border already on it. In fact my background started out as  an old piece of Christmas scrapbooking paper. I used white and green paint, stencils and my Gelli plate to create the final background. 

I then layered a piece of a map that had a lot of pink on it as well as the printed when I received it tag which also had the light red stamps on it. I added the black reinforcer (thanks Elizabeth for that word)  to the top of the tag and outlined both the tag and the map piece. 

I continued by adding a couple of lightbulb stickers and a metal  button  as well as the clear acetate bicycle image. They were all from my stash. The man is a TH figure, and I used a red Sharpie to color over his suit, hat and tie. To see his red clothing  I had to lighten  up my photo quite a bit.

I also drew in a little piece of the road for the man to stand on as well as adding some TH stickers quotes.

And I lightened up  Otto even more so you can see his red suit better. It still looks a bit like rust to me but at  least you can see how red his bowtie is.

That's my page for today. 

Let me also share a few more photos from the Canaveral National Seashore that we visited while in Florida. This is the longest stretch of undeveloped natural coastline on the Atlantic side of Florida. Thank goodness it's part of the National Park system because from what I can see of Florida, there would be no natural coastline left otherwise. 

I saw my first armadillo.

Not my first, but here's some  pelicans. 

It was a lovely beach to walk on.

I'm sure my husband would have liked to have been fishing like these people were. Instead (and since he didn't have his fishing pole with him) he walked with me. 

I hope your week is going well, and I also hope that you have a little red  and a nice walk or 2 in your life also.  Thanks for visiting.