Geeks Scavenger Hunt

The Art Geeks Journal prompt #20 is in the style of a scavenger hunt list...mandatory items to be used on your page;

Your mother's {or father's} favorite color.

A feather {real or drawn, may use image provided}

A womans face {all or partial; drawn, photo, collage}

A lyric from your favorite song

A key {see link below to download key image, you must use this image}

A bird {drawing, photo, collage}

I used my trusty STEve book, made from scrapbook paper, which I knew had a page with a bird already on...
...added a gel transfer of my mothers face, because I was using her fav colour...
YELLOW! I stamped wild roses and coloured them yellow...the sond lyrci written along the branches beneath her image reads" Oh she waits there for me 'neath a rose covered bower"
...and glued on a key with feather attached :D
DOH!! FAILED!! Didn't read prompts properly.....was supposed to use key image provided :S

Posting it anyway lol :D XXX

The many faces of ME!

Being the 28th day of 29 Faces for February, I thought I might show lots of faces.

The Art Geeks prompt for this week was to make a journal page using scraps and collage to show how the world sees you and how you really are. Some people don't see this as "proper" art, but I find it rather enjoyable :D

I chose to use my STEve book, which I made with my most favourite K&Co Blossomwood papers, and collected 6 images that I felt represented versions of me...I arranged them on the pages and smooshed copper metalic acrylic around a bit :D( I like smooshing paint)
I then made labels for each representation...
and finally doodled and added expressions of how I am perceived.
So Face no 28 is "The many faces of ME!"

#1 How parents see me....angelic of course

#2 How friends see me .... some one to tell their troubles to

#3 How Society sees me....sat drinking tea all day(stay at home mum)

#4 How Hubby sees me...alluring, with a hint of danger, sexy(and grateful I am that he does:D)

#5 How I see me....Happy in my own space(wanting to be away with the faeries most of the time)

and finally

#6 How I really am in the world....constantly battling with the outside world(protecting friends and family, trying to keep them all safe and happy)

Hope you enjoyed this bit of fun :D XXX

Hidden aspects...

Yay!! Beauty and the Beast....you'll understand the "Yay" when you get to the botttom of this post lol :D
This page is a combination of ideas drawn from STEve's ARTFIre journal transfer technique video and Art Geeks video on Hidden Things. Both these groups are free to join and send you video links by email :D

I selected a couple of magazine images to make my transfers with(I don't have a laser printer), and I used clear tape to make my transfers as I don't have any soft gel either lol.
and when they were ready I glued them to my journal page.
I next added a layer of watercolour over the background(and some clear gesso over my transfers so paint would stick)
Then I started picking out detail on my main image, while leaving the smaller distant figure to disappear into the background.
Acrylic paint to change my character completely(or should that be tranform???)
Some stamped swirly detail and a bit of doodling and the female figure is almost lost to sight completely :D
For some reason blogger won't let me load the pic of the finished page :S So it might appear at the top later lol :

Face 19 of 29 Faces in February