Winter Darkness

Winter for me isn't just dark literally, it also puts me in a dark place mentally.

The cold, the snow and ice make me feel trapped and depressed.

Fear and anxiety of traveling on the ice covered roads limits my social life and I spend my days struggling to stay positive. 

Illness and age have changed me. There was no fear or anxiety when I was young. Winter never held me back or put me in a dark place. I loved the solitude of living in the woods, but since I no longer work I feel like the solitude is closing in on me. 

Creating these journal pages helps me to keep things in perspective. I paste my feelings onto paper, place them in my journal and try to leave them there. On days when the weather allows, I go out and then there is this blog and your blog and thank goodness for the internet…I so appreciate all of your visits and comments. 

Hope your day is filled with happiness!

Karen

Art Journal Page 2

The Language Of Disease Is Pain

I found this phrase in an ad from the 1870's. I can totally relate to this and I know many of you can as well, so it inspired me to create another journal page.

Made of old cardboard, antique papers, tissue paper, paint, ink, stamp, modpodge, vintage torn lace, magazine scraps and scrap book paper.

I don't follow any sort of rules or learned techniques while creating these pages and I use whatever I have on hand in my studio which is a hodge podge of junk that I've accumulated over the years.

These pages are a meditative type of thing where I just get lost in what I'm doing.

It's more feeling than thinking which is what I need. I have a tendency to over think everything and this is a way of letting that go.

A temporary distraction.

Hope your day is painless!

Karen

Journal Page 1

I have absolutely no idea what I am doing here.

This is the beginning of what I'm calling…Journal Page 1.

I think it needs more layers.

 And some ink washed over the lighter parts.

 
I'll post photos again when I feel like it's finished.

Good wishes to you!

Karen