Hot and Cold

 Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. I hope your week is going well. 

Today I have a new page to share today for my It's On the Calendar challenge at Art Journal Journey. I cut out the phone image you see on my page from a magazine because I thought it was interesting.  I decided to make my page around it.

Liza is so excited that Bernardo has called and has come to visit just like he said he would. They have been in a torrid romance for the last several months, and I am assuming from this picture that  they still are. ❤

For my background I used some pieces of a chopped up old calendar.  I painted circles with some blue paint that I squeezed out of a tube. I guess I squeezed too hard because I had enough blue paint for 3 pages. 😏 Once the blue paint dried, I then covered the background with some transparent red oxide paint to get my final background color.

By this point I had picked out this image from Stamperia's Tango set. Since I thought some flowers were necessary for the picture, I used some scraps of printed tissue paper in areas of my background. After that I decided my background was  too disconnected, so I reached for a scrunched up paper towel and some gesso to pull it all together.

I finished my page  with a few more items. The quote is just something I typed up. I used some old 7Gypsies stamps to make the lamp and the clock. I liked the idea of the clock since calendars are really just long term clocks, measuring days and weeks rather than just minutes and hours. And even though they didn't photograph well, I added a few little gold pieces around the doorway of the cantina.

And there you have it.

My page might be hot and steamy, but here in New Hampshire  it is not hot and steamy. Here's a couple of icy photos from my last couple of morning walks.

It's been nice walking lately (except when it's been too cold or wet) because a culvert half way along my road washed out during a recent storm. Not that the damaged culvert makes it nice, but the road is closed at the midpoint. That means the only traffic is local traffic, not people cutting over from the next town. I've had days when I've walked with no traffic at all. I love it.

That's all for me. Enjoy your day, and I'll remind you that there is still a week to join in at AJJ if you should be interested.