Today: Get Messy Thursdays | Words, Week 6

It’s the final week of this season of the Get Messy Art Journal program (learn all about it here), and the inevitable has happened: I have run out of ideas and thoughts and brain power and found myself quoting Justin Bieber.  

There is a little break between this season and the next, during which time I am hoping to recharge my creative batteries a bit.  I’ve also been working on some watercolor Christmas cards and a few printable coloring book pages that I am hoping to share with you all soon.  But who knows.  I might just spend the time, you know, getting ready to have a baby.  

Get Messy Thursdays | Words, Week 6

Materials used: Watercolor paper, clear alphabet stamps, StazOn ink (black), Sakura Koi brush pen, Micron pen (black, size 1)

Since I already told you about my mild case of Bieber fever, here’s that page.  I really like these stamps and used them a lot this week (mostly on projects that I threw out recycled, but whatever).  

There’s no deep meaning to this one, but I thought it fit well with the theme of the season.  And think saying “no” (or “yes,” for that matter) is one of the most powerful things we can do.  Like, I sort of wish I had said “no” to watching the GOP debate last night, and “yes” to going to bed at 6:30, but hey.

Materials used: Strathmore Artagain drawing paper (coal black), Sakura Gelly Roll pen (white), random acrylic paints, Windsor & Newton Cotman brush (round #111)

I always spend a lot of time in my head, but I’ve been up there even more so lately.  Worrying about what labor will be like this time.  Wondering what I’ve forgotten to do.  Wishing people would not make weird comments about leaving my job or having two kids or having a second child when our first child is under two or not having sixteen kids or having my hands full or whatever.  But that’s what people do, it’s like they can’t help themselves.  They’re always going to make weird comments.

Better to let go of all that worrying, wondering and wishing than be dragged.

Materials used: Page from Combray, scrap of Artagain paper (coal black), Sakura Gelly Roll pen (white), magazine clippings, glue stick

And because I can’t go a week without writing in white pen on a black surface and quoting Hafez or Rumi or Thomas Merton or Mary Oliver or a random Jesuit… a page inspired by this line from a Hafez poem:

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.  

I would like to see you living

In better conditions.”

I sort of like that I cut the door so it can open. I kind of want to stick a tiny Clark in there.

And the entire season… all in one Flipagram thing…

A video posted by Elizabeth (@elizabethev) on Oct 29, 2015 at 8:46am PDT

And if that doesn’t work (because, let’s be serious: Elizabeth 0, Technology 900)… you can find the actual video on my Instagram feed (@elizabethev).

Also On Tap for Today:

• Taking Clark back to the vet (and then antler/indestructible toy shopping)
• 15 Favorite Vegetarian Recipes for Entertaining via The Kitchn
• Digging into our first Just Add Cooking box

Who’s winning this week, you or technology?