Week 9 with Ayozie Pollendine was about used aged papers and honouring the past. I focused on Mum’s birth mother Angela – I’m fortunate to have some old photos of Angela with her family. I added a map of Ireland, and County Clare, where Angela was from.
Mum found her half brother John when she was in her 60s and it was an absolute blessing. I’ve written a bit about it in t(e background. I know it doesn’t always turn out so well for people. We were incredibly lucky.
Playing catchup with posting these. Week 6 was a modified colour wheel with Shay Michelle. I discovered although turquoise and similar shades are my fav accents colours, I have very few collage papers in that colour range. I need to get out by large gelli plate and fix that!
Week 7 with LaQuisha Hall was exactly the kind of layout I hoped doing Wanderlust would get me back to. I used to do a lot of this type of art journaling and have become more product driven. This page is about me wanting to be a safe space for people, and wanting my libraries to be a safe space for everyone as the world gets harder to negotiate.
Week 8 with Claudette Hasenjager was a tricky one, I had to push through the colour wheel exercise, and I’m pleased I did. I discovered I’m incapable of working tidily for too long and struggle to add enough white, and overdo the black. I expected to love the Ruby combinations, but they were a bit dark, while the Rouge were a bit dull, but the DWM Raspberry are perfect. The layout, based on the fav colour wheel, is about speaking out for myself and others, speaking up even if worried, and then going aggravation of my vocal cord injury.
Cath Sheard Art 