Kim's Journal

Kim's journal arrived on the 9th of February. Her theme is the Elements..Air, Earth, Fire and Water as they relate to your zodiac sign. As an Aquarius, I'm an Air sign. Boy, air is a tough topic.

I've been working with the Neo-paque water soluble crayons and they seemed just the thing for creating a light and airy background. Instead of water, I used diluted gesso to blend the colors. I loved the result! I found a picture of an old-time hot air balloon and printed it faded out on a piece of tissue paper.

I wanted someting to represent wind and decided to use a spiral pop-up. I printed a circle-cropped design on a transparancy; well about 6 different ones. It was hard to get the color and the size just right. Then....(drumroll please)....I ruined the whole bleepin' thing by glazing over it with a pearlessence blue glaze. Instead of being light and airy, it looks like some 3rd-grader's rendition of the sky! But there's no going back when its a traveling journal so I forged ahead and put in the poem 'High Flight', which I really love.

I'm disappointed in the result and Kim, I'm sorry!