I'm feeling a bit emotional today...so I poured it out into my art journal. One of the things I do is write very loosely, so I get the emotions out but still have some privacy. For this page,I did layered writing. I started the page with inky color. Then I wrote over the page with a dark pencil...poured out my heart. Then I sketched & painted the girl. Next I wrote again, this time with a white Marks All Stabilo pencil. I wrote the white over the dark to give a layered, expressive look. (Sorry for the glare in the pictures...I took them at my desk & the lighting is not the best.)
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Love the colors!!
Posted by: Lorraine | December 04, 2011 at 05:26 PM
Beautiful work, Dina! That is the best kind of therapy - using your feelings to make gorgeous art with meaning behind it!
BTW - I won your giveaway a few months back (http://dinastamps.typepad.com/ponderings/2011/08/and-the-winner-is.html) and I just got to see your segment on television last weekend. It was great!! Your work is always so inspiring - I hope to one day take your classes in person!
Posted by: Michelle Mathey | December 04, 2011 at 05:27 PM
I really love your work... so much!
Posted by: Marina | December 04, 2011 at 05:56 PM
Awesome! I love your style.
Posted by: Lisa M. Pace | December 04, 2011 at 07:11 PM
Great face - so expressive. Hoped journaling helped you feel better.
Hugs,
Rinda
Posted by: rinda | December 04, 2011 at 10:46 PM
I wish wish wish I could write on my pages like you do.......its FABULOUS.....and all the better cos it's therapy too!
Posted by: Sue Roddis | December 05, 2011 at 01:11 AM
love it!
Posted by: Gabriela Seminario | December 05, 2011 at 06:29 AM
wow dina, she is beautiful!! hope it helped!
Posted by: Julie Weis | December 05, 2011 at 08:56 AM
I always love your loose writing - sorry to hear that it is done under distress. I am going to have to try writing like this when I am having a stressful day. Sounds like it might work and I like the privacy of it!!! Love the painting as usual! Hope you had a great holiday and continue to have one through the New Year. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Carol P | December 05, 2011 at 03:05 PM