Monday 1 November 2010

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These pages look quite striking, but because there is lots of colour on the squares which are bleached out areas they did not take colour very well. There is always something to be learned when doing this sort of thing.  I was inspired for my November pages by one of my long term Flickr contacts who I have been neglecting a lot lately. Unfortunately I cannot download Diana's picture, but you can see it here. She had captured  autumn leaves amongst grey stones. Hopefully the grey days, which are squares of pastel paper from an old sketchbook will fill with colour.

Diana and I 'met' when we both joined the same Flickr group when we had the same camera and we shared a love of cats. However Diana is an amazingly prolific photographer and has an incredible range of subjects from beautiful formal still lifes to wonderful candid portraits often taken in New York . I would say she favours classic subjects, but she can knock you sideways with a stunning 'off the wall' shot. Definitely worth a cruise through her photostream or her website here,
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20 comments:

Unknown said...

I love the new colour scheme idea - look forward to seeing the filled-in squares. Diana's pictures look great also.

Amelia said...

thanks for the link. I am getting more and more into photography now that I am doing both a course and the MA.

Love your colour scheme too, I am getting braver too about using a bit more colour in my work (it helps with photography as there is always colour around!)

Amelia.x

patcrafts said...

Absolutely love the colours on the October pages and the way the colour is bleached out of the squares.
November pages look so warm, beautiful colour.
Pat

cheryl said...

oh really love the colurs on,this brilliant pages,hugs cheryl xxx

Robbie said...

BEAUTIFUL!!! really, beautiful for journal pages!!

webb said...

October turned out so well! I love it. It'll be fun to see what happens to November.

Sandra Hall said...

Those October pages are fabulous with the bleached effect. The grey squares make a great impact over the lovely background and I'm sure your sketchy drawing will add even more as the November days fill in.

flutterbycrafter said...

Love the bleached effect on the October page, really different. I love your hand writing and little doodling, wish I could doodle and draw, thinking of taking drawing lessons.

Chrissie said...

October looks busy - no doubt we'll be saying that about November in a few weeks' time! The subtle November shades are lovely.

menopausalmusing said...

I like the fruit and the honesty that is down in the left hand corner of October. Hadn't realised Jill that the first of November this year looked so unusual written down until I saw your post title........

Ticking stripes said...

Last night in a tidy up I found the pages I started at the beginning of the year - plus three months worth of lists of things that happened each day to illustrate. I take my hat off to you for managing to keep this going all year!

Heloise said...

I like the waves of colour across October. Great background colour for November.

thekathrynwheel said...

Oh gorgeous! October looks fabulous filled in and November looks raring to go! I'm afraid I haven't even started November yet ....

Clare Wassermann said...

I really like your squared up journal page - a bit like a patchwork quilt. Isn't it marvelous to share these little ideas. Thank you xx

Karen said...

such a lovely sketchbook!!

Anonymous said...

OCTOBER is just absolutely fabulous. As ever, I am in awe of your artistry, your imagination, your flair. Bah humbug....

Emma said...

The bleaching means you can read the writing well - do you use a pen or stuff you buy in the supermarket? Love the 'gravel' squares in November. Thanks for your visit!

Jill said...

I use household bleach in a reservoir brush Emma - that is still no guarantee I don't bleach my clothes!!

Linda Vincent said...

Your October pages are delightful Jill... I enjoyed clicking on them and reading what you've been up to :-)
Looking forward to seeing November.

Hope your back is better.
x

elena nuez said...

what a beautiful things!
pictures and artworks are amazing
well done!
grt from Spain