Second Month

All Who Wander Are Not Lost

Continuing on with the Round Robin, I was very excited to receive, at last, someone else's handmade book. The cover indicated to me that the creator of this book liked to travel. I immediately put down some black gesso (LOVE how acrylic paint looks over black gesso!) and set about looking for inspiration. I kept seeing spirals! So, after the gesso was dry, I added some light blue paint and "carved" a spiral into it with a skewer while still wet. I dried the pages, then drew and painted a figure moving out of the spiral, as if on a great journey through life.

A magazine photo of a woman in a red hood caught my eye and I couldn't resist sketching and then painting her onto the page. This is the nature of intuitive journaling and why I love it so much! No plan...just go! I tried to make both the standing figure and the portrait work together, but eventually the figure was lost (you can barely see remnants between the portrait and the spiral with text). The face is a bit wonky, but that doesn't bother me. Her eyes tell me that she is planning her next great adventure and that kind of optimism is perfect for these uncertain times.