Old Pogo Prints

These are from a few different outings over the year and were probably in my last journal too. But I thought that if I don't stick them somewhere then they will just sit in a bag. Left page-Dungeness. Right page-snow drops at Welford Park.
Dungeness.

Cassie and Sainsbury's

Man in a Window

As we were driving to Whitechapel last weekend, a fat man appeared in a window. He caught my eye-I was driving but in slow moving traffic I hasten to add! I have not done him justice here as he was turned to the side and filled the window in a most interesting way.
The other page is just some fancy paper I think I got from my friend Clare. I like the combination of colours with the man's page.

Spotty Blotches or Blotchy Spots

These are the results of experimenting with gelatine printing. You make up the gelatine on a flat surface such as a baking sheet-I used a plastic tray (food packaging) and stood it on a baking sheet. Once the gelatine has set you can then put ink onto it and take a print from it. You can put things like leaves into the ink I think-I am not sure if I understood the instructions I had properly. I was being impatient so I just blobbed a bit of printing ink (watercolour) on and had a go. The first print came off with a layer of the jelly on it which I thought would never dry, but it did. The next couple didn't have the jelly on it but were more wishy washy looking. The one on the right here is the first.

The print on the left of this page is from a perspex block. The spatters are watercolour. I might add to these two pages later.

Inky Darkness and Tinkly Gold Ear-rings

This page is really doodly. The left side is a watercolour girl based on the pretty description from the book. Then a red and yellow orchid but no moonflower! On the right hand side there is a character that came out of a pen doodle stuck to the page, and watercolour doodling around it. The words say 'inky darkness' and the character that has emerged could have come from somewhere inkily dark. He looks a bit like Salvador Dali to me.

The Red House

William Morris' house in Bexleyheath. We visited a couple of weeks ago. The painting is from a photo of the house in an old book I have got. It is a black and white photo so made concentrating on the light and dark easier. My postcards from the visit. William and his wife Jane.
Jane and the oriole window where the ladies sat to do tapestry while the men played croquet on the lawn. Nice! It looks like eyes doesn't it? The guide told us that some of the windows were shaped liked Viking helmets and they looked like faces too.

Break and a Flower Disaster

The other morning, on the BBC breakfast programme, there was a man talking about something to do with divorce. I was only half listening, as I was making tea, but I noticed him say something about marriages breaking up, then, slightly later, about them breaking down. I love the way that happens with certain words, and how they can be included in many idiomatic phrases. So, page one is about that. Can you guess all the break phrases? Answers tomorrow!
No answers-I forgot. Break in, break out, break up, break down, break apart, break open.
The second page is just based on the phrase left uncovered-flower disaster. What a great phrase!
Both pages are gel pen, oil pastel and watercolour.

Mish Mash

This is a bit of a mish mash page. I was trying out a crossword stamp I got from ebay-it is old but looks brand new. The face had orange eyes-in the text it talks about 'marmalade eyes'-a strange choice of description and not something I have ever seen in real life! Then as I was painting a bit of colour around the page, a cup of coffee appeared, which actually goes quite well with a crossword!