Soul Jounaling: Days 9 through 12

Finally getting around to posting my latest work in the soul journal! I am still far (faaar) behind, but I've been working slow and steady through the assignments. First, day 9, which had us revisit our previous work:

Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm not so comfortable with covering up work I've already done and that's exactly what day 9's assignment entailed. I started by adding a light blue wash, but it just was enough. Then I added a bright yellow wash... eh, still not quite right. Then I added a little bit of red oxide (looks more like pearlescent orange), and I finally felt like the colors worked together. I'm sure you can't really notice in the photo, but I was so pleased with all of the different shades that appeared in my work!

Here is my work on days 10 and 11. You know what I loved most about this spread? That we totally didn't have to draw well to complete it. I felt such freedom! Even when I picked up the permanent marker, I wasn't particularly careful. I just got my idea on paper, as imperfect as it turned out.

Anyway, here is a representation of my house. I love on the end of a row of townhouses, so the "scenery" was pretty straightforward. I used some found papers for all of the plants and a roof or two. The windows were created with little squares of gel - the transparent colored pieces of paper-thin plastic used to change the colors of theater lights. I felt very clever at the time, but now I wish I had taken advantage of their transparent quality a little bit more.

And here is the finished spread. I added paint in shades that somewhat, vaguely represent the color of my house. It didn't really come out as I imagined it would, but I'm really pleased that I finished pages with this much detail. Looking at the photo now, I feel really accomplished!

That's as far as I've made it so far. Now that I've finished those layouts, I can catch up reading blog posts about what everyone else created!