Full Circle Art Journaling * Part Five and AJJ

the theme at Art Journal Journey this month is “Circles“ which made me think of nature and how many things come in circle patterns…

for the pages above the image on the left is cut out of a magazine…paint…gesso…rubber stamps…pens…pencils and even some found words appeared on the right…

the mandala on the left was cut from the inside of a Yogi tea box that my youngest son saved for me (I colored it to compliment the butterfly wings on the right page)…I like that he too thought the box too good to throw away so he tucked a couple of flattened boxes in his suitcase to give to me when we met in California ♥ I used chalk…gel pens…rubber stamps…paint…paper scraps and gesso above…

*footnote: something kept bothering me about my UNIVERSAL RYTHMS page …DOH!!! it should have been spelled rHythms … guess I really wanted it to fit in that space or something… 😉

scraps of paper and old map…chalk…paint…gesso and a stamped image for my pages above…

the pages above started with the green plastic grass that used to come with takeout sushi…our local stores stopped adding it some time ago so I got really excited when we visited Daiso Japan in San Francisco which is a store where most everything costs $1.50 and oh my did they ever have some interesting and fun items…a scrap of green sari fabric that was handy really helped turn my pages  green…the image is one of my Citra solv transfer pieces and I used plaster to stencil some texture on the left hand page…

the girls on the left and the words inside the wreath came in a collage pack from LaWendula in Germany which sparked inspiration along with pieces of torn painted and stamped paper and the wreath cut from a catalog with purple chalk highlights completing these painted art journal pages…

*all of the photos can be enlarged by clicking on them*