It's not been the best of weeks. Computer crashed, I crashed, now email crashed. The computer and I are better. The email - meh. We'll see. But the journal never crashes. No motherboards or outgoing server rejection or unexplained fevers.
Just me, my watercolors and a charcoal pencil. And some stenciling first. I've been throwing some stenciling down on my pages in advance lately. It helps with that blank page.
I like what happens when paint drips. And the white space again. And the word "Hooligans." What a great word. Ruffian or hoodlum, but it doesn't sound at all sinister to me. And this is good: hooliganism is a word! Who cares about troubles with words like "hooligans" around?
i agree.......i have had one of those weeks too!!
Posted by: raylee | 08/14/2013 at 09:19 AM
Wow, I love this journal page!! Those watercoloured bottles are awesome!! Sorry to hear you are having computer issues, that explains why I didn't get an answer to the email I sent you yesterday!
Posted by: Cynthia | 08/14/2013 at 10:45 AM
I relate to the computer problems...my first gen iPad is beginning to fail and there's no upgrade price for iPad...just a new iPad! Words are coming to me more easily since I took a writing class and focused in on haiku...the economy of syllables is truly refreshing!
Posted by: Karen D | 08/14/2013 at 11:23 AM
I always love how loose your work is -- very inspiring!
Posted by: Connie Rose | 08/14/2013 at 11:48 AM
:(. Hope it is getting better. My email is now fixed. yay
Posted by: Diana Trout | 08/14/2013 at 02:23 PM
Thanks Cynthia. I did send out to you this morning. Hope you got that one? Have FUN! !
Posted by: Diana Trout | 08/14/2013 at 02:29 PM
I admire the care the Japanese take with using only exactly what they need: words, line, etc. It's a sense of economy that understand deeply
Posted by: Diana Trout | 08/14/2013 at 02:31 PM
Aww! Thanks :) I need to start taking these to regular paper or canvas. After the summer.
Posted by: Diana Trout | 08/14/2013 at 02:32 PM
Try as I might I cannot achieve that lovely loose look without going a step too far and then . . . bugger! I out to explain that in NZ 'bugger' is not swearing, if fact to call someone a silly bugger is always said with some affection . . .a bit like when you call someone a dag, and your daggy old clothes are your favourites that are falling apart, which is far and away from the original meaning which I will allow you to check up in in Wikipedia. Maybe I need to write a post about Kiwi slang sometime. :)
Posted by: Wendy @ the Late Start Studio | 08/15/2013 at 12:05 AM
Oh, I should have included this link Diana . . . watch it for a laugh and to see how we use "Bugger!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbBx4Ql6Umo
Posted by: Wendy @ the Late Start Studio | 08/15/2013 at 12:07 AM
Perfect morning laugh, Wendy. Thats a very good all-purpose word. Now I must practice saying it for the next week so it becomes a part of my vocab :) We use bugger too, as in you little bugger. Affectionate but about 1/4 way to ropes end
Posted by: Diana Trout | 08/15/2013 at 08:36 AM
Yes, we use it that was too - it's sort of naughty but cute . . . just.
There was a second ad, not on You Tube, where a baby in a stroller, drops its ice cream in its lap and says "Bugger!" Some people complained about the ads to the Broadcasting Standards Authority but it wasn't upheld as it was deemed to be so common in our language as to be inoffensive.
I hope you don't have too many reasons to say it!
Posted by: Wendy @ the Late Start Studio | 08/20/2013 at 02:38 PM
I have many occasions for using a word like that. Bugger, the toast is burnt. Bugger me, I forgot the gesso.
Posted by: Diana Trout | 08/21/2013 at 07:34 PM