Leafygal

Macabre celebrations

I finally finished another Artist's Journal - the Mexican themed one.
Other people had done wonderful pages of colours of Mexico, 5th May celebrations, Frida Kahlo, Travels, Food and so I wracked my brain for something else to do.
I have always been fascinated by the Day of the Dead festivities which use skulls and skeletons to remember the dead and celebrate ongoing life.
It is a happy festival with lots of colour. I did some research and then adapted a picture I found.
I used a combination of watercolour pencils and acrylic paints

Hope the journal owner likes it!

Mood Indigo

That's what I thought of when I saw the pages available for me to do my thing in this round robin Deco Book on the colourful topic of Rainbow.
On the other hand I just love Japanese fabrics, especially the traditional Indigo coloured ones - so went with that theme.
Pasted fabric as background, topped 'n' tailed with gold tissue (in case you hadn't noticed this is one of my favourite materials to use) then psted on pic of geisha which I hand coloured to increase the indigo. More gold stippled on , my Japanese character stamp of "Peace"  and now to send it off to the next artist.
This book has some really beautiful pages and if the owner puts it up on the web when it's finished I will just have to do a link to it.