For this class I did not want to just have a background, I wanted to incorporate the splatters into a complete page. I had some ink at home which I thought I could water down for different shades rather than using paints. I sometimes use Scribble Paintings with clients and I thought I could use this concept with the splatters, to see if any images or symbols appeared in the ink. I did not have an intention for the splatters, rather I just let it happen organically. It took me a few days to get back to the page, I just wasn’t feeling it to be honest. When I did spend some time with the page nothing jumped out which wasn’t helped by the fact I could not think of an intention or purpose for the page. Now that I have reflected on this for a week or so I have realised that I tend to set my intentions about things I think I need to improve, fix or develop. I have had a few really fun and open weeks and was struggling because I didn’t feel I needed to really work on anything obvious. This turned out to be the obvious thing to work on! As much as I told myself I did not need to have a page which was about moving forward and deep self reflection I could not get past this. I spent some time journaling and thinking about how I feel that I always have to be improving, learning and achieving to be a better person. Why can’t I have a journaling page about where I am now and celebrating what I have? I sat on this for another day and came back to my page and immediately saw a petri dish full of growing bacteria. This fit perfectly with my musings – I had to grow and nurture what I have now in order to get bigger and better. I added some words from my journal to the page and I was done! I have a page about being in the moment and celebrating what I have right now.
Sorry for the poor quality of the photo’s, it has been raining and overcast here all week and there is no sun at all!
On a side note I am having trouble with some of the classes. I don’t have some of the materials to complete them and am in a dilemma – While I know the techniques are great I can’t see myself using the products again and I don’t want to buy something only to use it once. I am thinking that I may just improvise and do what I can, so if my pages don’t seem the same as the class, they most likely aren’t’!
