Art Journal Tangents & Tactics # 6 - Quirky Girls

Let me begin this rather long story of Daisy Yellow's 6th installment of the Art Journal Tangents and Tactics series at the beginning.  The first part of this exercise was to draw a grid and fill it with faces.  Faces that are also drawn.  By hand.  What?  But I don't draw I protested (to myself).  I'm just not doing this.  But it looks like fun!  I have these angel/devil conversations with myself fairly frequently...  Ok I will try it, but I'm not going to post it if it looks really bad...oh what the hell I will post it anyway.

As you can see, I will NOT be quitting my day job to draw portraits, but it was pretty fun I had to admit, and you can see they are human cartoon-y type faces that your average four-year-old might draw right?

The next step was to make an acrylic background and "draw" a face onto said background with high-flow acrylics, and then spray it with watered down paint to make it more abstract.  I used gold "Smooch" spray ink instead of watered down paint.  I'm lazy like that because I would have had to mix it up in a spray bottle, etc. where I could just pull the ready-made spray off the shelf!  And I like the hint of mica.

 

I wanted to put these pieces together with my "girl power" block lettering page that I made for Daily Paper  Prompt 37, but I had three pages for a two-page spread, one of which was already committed to the page.  What to do?

Of course I needed to make a fold-out spread!

I planned how the three pages would work together but then I realized I had to do something with the back of the abstract girl page because it would be folded over when the book was closed.  I chose to emulate a neon sign advertising "girls, girls, girls" leaving the reader wondering about what provocative material might be inside (or if you're a reader of this blog, whether I'd taken leave of my senses).

However, I assure you I have not.  This symbol of exploitation opens up to my finished girl power spread.  I hope the contrast and message are self-explanatory.

Comments

[Bleubeard and Elizabeth]

You certainly found the right way to fit all those pages and images into your journal in a truly clever and coherent way. You also did a LOT better with drawing your faces than I could. They look like cartoons, yes, but they are also quite good cartoons! And I LOVE the Girls, Girls, Girls page. Clever!!!

[Bleubeard and Elizabeth]

I forgot to mention that I am in awe of all the very positive things you added that girls need. Lots of respect, love, and a good role model are tops in my book.