Soul Eyes

Soul Eyes

She emerged on one

of the pages

from my

CitraSeal/National Geographic experiment.

She is my favorite

of all those pages,

actually.

Yesterday,

home from work with the snots,

I couched:

listening to this awesome new CD,

with my tea & blankie,

my pillow & Zoe,

& 

my pens & journal.

Once I'd

spilled my proverbial guts

on the page,

in 5 pen colors,

I decided to camoflouge.

Sometimes

[sometimes]

thoughts just need to stay private,

ya know?

presently,

I'm re-visiting the influence of

Gustav Klimt,

my favorite artist,

thanks to this book

&

letting his shapes

flow through me.

Peaceful,

[despite my roiling, broiling stomach

& relentless coughing & kerblooeying!!]

to snooze a little,

sip a little,

wake to move a few pens around once more.

This kind of page is a transition for me.

I'm slowly getting used to it.

I'm uncertain if I like it.

I still resist 

(in big parts of myself)

covering over my writing.

This book is 11 x 14,

so the whole page won't fit on

my scanner,

but you can still

get a sense

of the overall finished look.

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Materials:

metallic acrylics, 52 flavors of pens, fabric strip

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Because

I love to see

where visual journalers begin

with a page,

above is a scan of an upcoming background

in my Big Book,

spray painted background

and another CitraSeal/Nat'l Geo page

(my second favorite).

I'll scan this once I've worked the page

& show you

what it becomes.