Paul Coelho quote

Journal page by Mary M Payne

Journal page image transfer:   Mary M Payne

  I found congruence in the simplicity of Paul Coehlo's directive and made that the base note. I threw in some stencil work, acrylic washes and an image transfer.      

This is a spread from my second journal, maybe the 3rd attempt with "image transfer" from a photo printed on an inkjet printer.   I am getting a bit better transferring the ink, even though I had to touch this one up quite a bit.    My photo was taken from an image by Danielle and Olivier Follmi in their book called Wisdom.  

I am starting to dare to use my own lettering on these pages.  It's surprising how scary it is for me  to mess up the page with my personal lettering.  If I were to need to start over it would be hard to correct the page without another layer of Gesso to obscure the "mistakes".   

    I guess creative lettering is another discipline altogether for those art journaling with words.   I can't seem to get away from my "school teacher" writing, but the wavy lines helped me to get creative here.