Happy Friday Eve !

Here I am again claiming another project is done or at least I think it is. I thought my birdhouse one was done, but within a day after posting, I thought it needed a detail or two more and I changed it. I replaced the cover with it only, you know, the cover didn't change, but inside the post it showed the new one. 😄 That's ok, because after it has sat on the side of my desk all week, I want to do some more changes to it ... again. I'll include it in the end of one of my posts when I get it updated.

So... I don't know what to say exactly about this. Again, close up you can see details, but far back it might look better... or not. There are parts I like a lot and some that are just there.

For this one I used a cradle board. I bought some after I started making painty papers. I had seen them for a long time when I was just painting, but never tried them, even though I thought I might like too. A few days ago I put gesso on one of each of the three sizes I have to seal it as the wood was bare. I wasn't sure for mixed media if I needed to, but why take the chance. That also meant I had to buy gesso too, because I have never used that either. Painting with acrylics in the past, I nearly always used stretched canvas and it doesn't need to be primed for that.

When I was ready to start this piece I painted the whole board. I know I don't have too if I am going to cover it, but just in case any of it showed through, I didn't want wood to show through. Maybe on something later.... but

While I was waiting for that to dry I made another stenciled paper. I didn't know if I would use it on this piece or not and turns out I didn't, but it was something to do while I waited. I did tear a piece or two of it off thinking I might use it, but it just wasn't quite right, so I'm sure I'll use it in something later.

Add it to the PILE !

I started the background papers, remembering to save some of the favs for later. This is one I showed before where I wrote with leftover calligraphy pen ink and then stenciled over it. I liked the effect and thought I might buy more ink cartridges, but it is a good thing I didn't, because even though it is a couple of weeks old at least, it still ran immediately when I got it wet with glue. In this case and being in the back, it really didn't matter, but it could matter later, so that lesson is learned !

I got random papers on to cover.

Then I stared adding some paints here and there. Looks yucky at this stage, but I'm guessing that is the way it usually goes.

Like always, I had no clear image of how I wanted it to end, however, this flower sketch that I did in a notebook years again was something I liked and I wanted it to be a feature. Although I knew I wasn't suppose to get "precious" about parts as I went along, I did. It was precious before I put it on !

By this time I had add some other paper shapes and edges torn off the notebook page.

I decided I needed a little more of this design that is over the inked paper, to help balance it a little, so I stenciled some more.

I had taken a break and during that time I had decided that the flower I was so precious over couldn't compete with all the other things I had added. Unfortunately it was just not going to show well in the end. I determined that I had to let precious go and take a chance that if I pinned over the design to make it darker, it would either work or make it much worse, but I settled with myself that I still had to try, because either way, it wasn't going to work like it was.

Bye-bye original scribble flower !

I didn't think that was going to work either, so the obliterating began.

There were so many versions, but to my eye... all bad. I did other things in-between as you can see, more papers, more paints, more... more...

.... and more... big flower UGH going on there.

So I filled it all in, but still left it as a flower shape in memory of the poor little sketch, now permanently covered.

I cut some paper scrapes and pasted it in the petal area to make it fit better with the rest of what had been going on along the way.

It's ending bloom. Close up is pretty neat, seeing all the paint and paper layers that are there around it.

After much more paper and scraps and paint and.... wondering what I was doing..... It came to this.

I could have kept adding and adding, but like I said in the title, it seemed like a never ending story, so I put an end to it and told it that was all. We'll see if it talks back later.

I don't suppose the "style" is a lot different than the first piece I created. I thought I was going somewhere !

As I took this last photo, right before I created this post, I had to wonder, do YOU pick your style... or does a style pick you ?!

See how the newest one looks a little different a little further away? Or is that just me? It's not too bad on my eyes for balance and I like the color combo mostly.

I don't know the answer to that, but I guess time will tell. I do intend to still try a lot of other styles, but who knows, they might all turn out like this.

When I got off of work I went online and made an appointment for a blood draw. My yearly physical is next week, so I'm having some labs drawn tomorrow so my doctor can see all the inside info. LOL... for some reason when I was putting in my info online, I couldn't find my insurance card. It's ALWAYS in my purse.... but no... hunt, hunt, HUNT, hunt hunt some more. Finally had to pull an EOB from a previous visit to get the number... GAH ! I hate hunting stuff. Then I went online and paid all my bills, which turned out one of my password cards was missing... what ... WHAT ??? ... hunt, hunt, hunt, HUNT... (found the insurance card under my keyboard) ... hunt, hunt, hunt.... no password card, so I do the I forgot my login, then I forgot my password, made a new password... JEEPERS CREEPERS !!!! I was so annoyed with myself and .. .well, after I did all that, I found the card in the box it should have been in, turned around backwards and in the next slot !

I felt exhausted and thought, I just can't sit here and write a post like I planned. Then I started pulling out photos for the post.... and now, here I am, almost finished except for the reread where I won't catch all my typos, but hopefully most of them.

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Last one, just for the fun of it.

Time to wonder to the kitchen and feed myself something. I got a new pile of groceries delivered at lunch, so plenty to choose from.

Hope you are all doing well. Just think, soon it will be the weekend !!... which will of course fly by faster than the speed of light...but try not to think about that part.

Love you !

Jacey

P.S. How'd it get to be 8 o'clock already ?????