Another Flower Page for AJJ

   Happy Sunday everyone,
  The weather here has been well not good for those of us with allergies. The air is very heavy with humidity which holds all the pollen we have now. It's been raining but not severe and not as much as predicted, but the lake water has been rising. It is usually at full by Memorial Day-influenced with the rain amounts and  how much water is let out at Bagnell Dam.
   So we are in need of getting back to outdoor projects but not today. The coming week is suppose be sunshine and warm. So I am hoping to be back on painting the outdoor furniture. We ended up ordering the paint I need online as no one here locally has it. That should come in this week.

  Our electricity went out early this morning. The problem when that happens to us now is everything is fiber-the phone and the internet-so everything goes down. Even the cell phone is set to work off the wifi to save minutes. So I had to drive out of the area to call. I could tell this whole side of the lake was down. They had it back up and running in a couple hours.
  I miss my big gas stove in these situations because I could still cook and bake-as this was a commercial and old stove that didn't use electric to turn on the gas-why they did that I don't know.

  Anyways, I headed to my craft room. I wanted to try doing something for Mia's theme Flowers over at AJJ  with colored pencils. Last year when Crayola's site had awesome sales I bought a few things including a couple different types of their colored pencils. I also had picked up a package at Yellowstone that were colored pencils but had no wood in them.
  I tried these and another set I had to see if they would work with water. I hadn't known about watercolor pencils at the time.  The one set did work a little bit.
 
   I also grabbed a couple stamps and colored them in.
When I went to add the piece to my smaller journal I forgot to cut it to size so it was too wide-sigh-so I added it to my painting journal.
  I grabbed my big vintage box of old crayons to run the page over with a crayon-and wow I totally forgot that one side was full of colored pencils that I had picked up cheap at garage sales. I went through them all and found a handful of them marked watercolor-so I am anxious to try these and see how they work. I think I may like these. What a very fun find!!

When I was watching those free art videos last month, on a mixed media video, the artist was showing these water brushes-you fill them up with water and then use them over your watercolor pencils-I thought this was really cool-she used these on her trips. I found a package with several different shapes of brushes.

On the left my colored pencil find-awesome

and this is the handful that were marked watercolor

This was my inspiration page.  I always thought it was not good to copy or use a photo for inspiration.Another  one of the artist's videos I watched who is a professional painter in Canada advised to have a reference-to train your mind to see more, as your brain was too repetitious  So I don't feel guilty now using a reference

The stamps I used was the bird, the spider, and the little bunch of flowers. The rest of the page and the daffodils are with the pencils

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I will be adding this to Art Journal Journey for Mia's theme Flowers

Happy Sunday