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Thursday

The Darkness Seems To Be Starting To Lift

As some of you might have noticed, I have been quiet for about 4 month. Haven't done anything art related during all that time as well.

Even the 2 year long art journal projects turned into a plain diary like this for me.

Those months have been really hard on me:
* my daughter changed schools in the middle of the graduation year
* we all moved because of that
* she barely graduated and was diagnosed with chronic illness
* I had less and less income and got sick again and again
* I spiraled down into a really deep dark hole without having the money to get professional help
etc. etc.

Even the great job my youngest son did during his first year at art school and other nice things were barely holding me over the surface.

But, lately, the huge heavy darkness seems to be starting to lift now and then.

Tomorrow, my daughter is having her graduation ceremony. I just finished a tulle skirt for her gown and hope to shoot a decent pic of her in it tomorrow.

And I'm starting to add some color to my diary pages. :)

How have you been lately? You know I'm always happy to hear from you, right?

Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv.

Friday

The Story of Two Birdies

Today, I started a mixed media piece inspired by Tee Thompson's livestream from last Wednesday . I glued down some snippets from an antique book, a strip of paper with a sweet little text about me my daughter had written on it a couple of years ago and some snippets from one of her old school music work books. As I had done some drippage with blue India ink, I liked it so much, that I thought I'd never manage to cover it up :)

I continued to play though adding some more colors, and, as soon, as I discovered a little birdie in the right bottop corner, I sketched it out along with a larger bird, mixed my own acrylic glaze with red India ink and some mat gel medium, covered the rest and outlined the birdies and a branch they are sitting on. I knew this was the right thing to do on this sheet of water color paper and liked the result very much. As my daughter saw it for the first time, she wanted to put it on the wall in her room right after it would be dry. And in that moment I knew, the piece was about the love and attachment between the two of us and every mom and her offspring... Thank you so much, Tee and Anna!

This might be the final version of it. I wouldn't mind at all to sell it, but before that I'll make sure my daughter gets a good print of it for her room.