DLP Week 7

February Challenge: Layers You Love
Art Challenge: Cover up the Good Stuff
Prompt: Going Undercover

Started by enlarging this page to layout form by attaching another page with masking tape and gesso-ing over it.  Added some Tim Holtz distress paints to background.  Wrote some thoughts on "being" on left side then gesso'd over again.  Drew the heads (confession time: this is actually tracing around a carving I had done many years ago--so "drawing" is overstated).  Decided to make them different sizes.  Originally I'd thought of doing tea cups, but liked the idea of the heads instead, but still wanted the vessel idea, so chopped off the heads to make them open.  I'd already altered the Bigelow tea tags to show only the BE part and had colored those in different water color paints.

Thought about adding something below "Be" but wiped it out. You might be able to make out the "you" on the tag above.

The main practice for me on this page was playing with shading and color. Definitely a process and needing more practice but had fun.  Used the tags to cover up the ear, eye, and mouth of the different heads.  Covering up the middle eye was hard for me as it was my best one-- so feel like I worked on this challenge.  ;-)

Added paint spatters and the quote from Daniell Koepke.  Not sure if it's readable so here's the quote:

"Let whatever you do today be enough.  Let go of the judgment you have about what you should be or could be doing, and today, allow yourself to simply be.  Comparing yourself and your journey may be habitual, but it gets you nowhere.  It makes you feel worse and it keeps you stuck.  So stop fixating on where everyone else is, and start giving yourself permission to be exactly where you are.  Quiet the voice telling you to do more and be more, and trust that in this moment, who you are, where you are at, and what you are doing is enough.  You will get to where you need to be in your own time.  Until then, breathe.  Breathe and be patient with yourself and your process.  You are doing the best you can to cope and survive amid your struggles, and that's all you can ask of yourself. It's enough. You are enough. -Daniell Koepke.