Graffiti for AJJ

Graffiti.

My journal page today 

Out and About at......

  Art Journal Journey

is all about how we  see the area we live in.

 I have to say we have no area's of graffiti where we live,

folk respect other peoples property.

I have been in a town recently, where someone had randomly sprayed paint and  left  a right mess.

 However  it can look very artistic and creative when care is taken.

 Banksy is one of the wall artists who's work is admired and many other creative folk leave their paintings with  permission by the local councils etc..

It can make a dull boring side wall look interesting to see.

I  have seen some wonderful painted walls on our travels in Ireland a few years ago.

This page began life with paint and a stencilled brick wall.

Pictures taken from an Art Book. I bought in a charity  book sale outside a supermarket.

I added some splashes of paint before the digital grasses and flowers.

I had tried a stamp, but the wall texture made it look a complete mess, so I added more paint and decided to take an easier [for me] option.

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A weekend out and about for AJJ

Saturday 18th March

Its a weekend  Out and About   for

Art Journal Journey

and a visit to London.

 Somewhere I have not been to for years, but the last time was for a weekend and it took me a nearly week to recover when I got home.

The background was similar for both pages, first of all sprayed with ink. The page above had some texture paste smeared over it. The images I used were from a Mischief Circus kit.

The first thing to be decided, would be how to travel and I think I would have taken a train to get there like the last visit, then  use a bus or a taxi to get around.

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Sunday 19th March

Day 2

Sight Seeing

Where to go...

Westminster Abbey

Tower bridge and the Tower of London.

Buckingham Palace.

All the usual places.......... but if I were to go again 

 at the top of my list would be  Galleries, Museums and the theatre.  I know it would be a much longer visit than a quick weekend.

You will have guessed that this is a dream outing.

Would I travel there again, probably not, though it never should stop you having a dream destination.

All the images on this page were cut from an old calendar.

Thank you for calling in today, you are always welcome here. 

A visit to the Dentist for AJJ

How many of us have a fear of going to the Dentist.

Something that I don't worry about, but many still do.

A short while ago I visited Beamish [ here is the link to my post]

its a living history museum,

 one of the terrace of houses was reconstructed as the  town dentist's.

So my ...  Out and About...

for Art Journal Journey.

is a digital  page today,  a visit to the dentist

Mr Jones had his  sign  up on his wall as you can see in my photo strip on the journal page

The waiting room

The dentist chair.
  No electric drills in these days the drills were worked with a foot treadle.

......... a gas bottle or two,  only used as a last resort,
you can just see the dentist working on a set of false teeth

in the left hand corner of the photo

His workshop. 

This photo shows the terrace of houses, The Dentist was situated  here,  close to the pub.

Now, no guesses needed about the location. Maybe folk needed a drink before they went in.

but the probably would need something when they came out.
We were told that folk would be in severe pain before they visited the dentist,
 as they couldn't afford the cost of going.
Another interesting fact was.... parents often offered their daughters a set of false teeth for a 21st Birthday gift. So their  husbands wouldn't have to pay dental costs.

The Sun Inn, .
I think this would have been very popular back in the day.

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Exercise class or,,,, not, for AJJ

 Out and about today for

 Art Journal Journey

In case you wonder its not me going to the exercise class, but a couple of folk I got chatting to the other day. Exercise  is good for us, mine  these days is a little gentle walking.

The  hybrid page started off with a  pre- made background  in my journal, water colours and brusho powders and a liberal spray of water.

Adding  few bits and pieces that were lying around on the craft table . then to the computer for some digital additions

This picture came from an old calendar.

The quote on it says....

Either my legs are too long

or my arms are to short.

I just know what they must feel like.

I hope you smile when you see the young girls who thoroughly enjoy exercising and the wonderful ,  more mature ladies who are trying to get fit.

Thank you for stopping by today, your visit is very much appreciated

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Can you see what I see? for AJJ

I am sharing a layered hybrid journal page today.......

for Art Journal Journey

Here we are half way through the month using the theme I chose of  ' Out and About',

and I am so thrilled that folk  are enjoying it.  I  look forward to visiting  AJJ.  

 and seeing  what folk  have made, the pages are all so inspiring.

Do you ever wonder what animals think when they see us humans?

We look at them, admire them and especially if they are young animals, 

 think how cute and sweet they look.

I think this little calf is wondering why folk are looking at her  while she is trying to eat her dinner, before she takes an afternoon nap.

On the left is  a photo I used, it decorates the page for April in my kitchen calendar.

I know its still  March but its such a sweet little calf I just had to use it in the page. 

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The Lady in Red for TioT's

Where is the year going, here we are in the mid-March already.

The new theme at Try it in Tuesdays is 

'The Lady in Red'.

Well  she's no lady, but she is wearing a red dress and off to party.

This is a fun card for a friend who has  a wicked sense of humour.

Its a sprayed inky background and a watercoloured image.

Please call in and see what the girls all made for this challenge,

we would love you to join  us.

While the stamps and colours were on my desk I also made a journal page.

Lots of inky sprays for the base and  some random stamping

I stamped onto an old book page,  colouring the image at the same time as my card.

As you can see  I had a play and  added some digital elements after I had taken the photo.

I was even able to add a reversed picture from my original card.

Thank you for calling in to see me today. You are all very welcome here.

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please scroll down to my earlier post.

The seaside with Agnes and Arthur ..... and a Pit village for us.

Out and About for..... 

Art Journal Journey

 A page in my 8 x 8 inch journal today.

Made using  pieces of Graphic 45 papers, before having its digital additions.

Arthur and Agnes are having an adventure of their own

 and heading off to the seaside for the day.

Agnes is quite excited as she's never seen a beach before.

Can you remember your first visit to the beach.

My first memories include.  egg and tomato sandwiches, very cold North Sea   water with waves that splashed  and sand in my toes.

On the left...

The paper layers and the fussy cut stamped images , all set to be altered.



Below is the other side of the journal spread,
a painted and stencilled background and the stamped images of Arthur and Agnes at the beach.

I do think Agnes is having fun and Arthur has arranged a great day out for her,
 she can see the beach and the sea.
She found it strange having to change in to a new body suit,
 but Arthur insisted,
 humans did  and he didn't want them to look different!!!!!!!!!
The sun is shining, they've built a sandcastle, launched the toy boats
and he has even brought a picnic basket for them to enjoy after a dip in the sea.

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Hello T day friends

We were out and about today as well and went back to Beamish
the open air museum, it was to dull to go to our coast.
So instead  we went into the 1900's Pit  village.
We took lots of photos but as its
 T. Day over at Bluebeard and Elizabeth's 

I thought I would share these ones with you today, where we had our lunch

This is a traditional fish and chip shop from the !900's
we took the photos earlier, as by lunch time we knew it would be  full  of hungry folk

The wall tiles looked fantastic

The fryer was fueled by coal,

They even used the old cash register to take payment, we had a good walk around the village and came back for lunch.

The fish and chips would have been served in newspaper back in the day,
 but  they use  replica paper nowadays.
 Notice we had to use our fingers to eat, that was a laugh,  the fish was so hot, we were blowing on it so we could get a mouthful to taste it.......delicious.
 The only fault was that the tea and coffee was served in paper cups, I just managed to get mine in this photo

How they lived back then......

These  photos are inside of one of the cottages.
The table set ready for breakfast [the food on the table was real and the smell of fresh baked bread was lovely].  On the other side of the room the bed.

 Baking  more bread for the men coming home.
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