Open Hearted and Kind

"Shout out to everyone who is still trying to be an open-hearted and kind person even while having to process a lot of heavy things."

This quote came across my Facebook feed...and it has resonated with me all day. It can be found here.  I think we all have to process heavy things once in a while. Here's to hoping we can stay open-hearted and kind along the way.

I wanted to get it written down somewhere....so decided to add it to my art journal.  

I started with a piece of aqua cardstock that was just sitting on my table...

drew some chunky lines with a wide posca paint pen...

and added an additional darker line with a maker.

This page on the right was already in my art journal...and the quote will land on the opposite page once I figure out what else I want to do around it. This gelli print is one of my firsts from years and years ago. It's a little rough...so I'll see what I can do to improve it...and bring the two pages together.

The translucent stones above are left over from a project for some of my 4 x 6 cards that Becky, Brenda and I exchanged several years ago. You can read about them here: https://joyfulputtering.blogspot.com/2021/03/round-10.html

I have lots of these background cardstock laying around....and now they're all fair game for white stripes for writing quotes. I think this one was done using pan pastels. The big chunky Posca pen is pretty slick making these stripes and the acrylic surface is great for writing. The soft white stripes improved this paper already.