Wrap Up 2019

2019 Fake Journal Goals:

1. Draw, paint, collage on most days in April

2. Imagine myself as a gardener or landscape

designer

3. Use random phrases and quotes about gardening

4. Draw what might be found in a garden 

5. use loose pages to draw on, 5"x7", to be bound after the project is completed

6. Complete each page in an hour or less

Discovery:

Quotes and statements about the Arts in general

applied quite well to the Art of Gardening.

(Quotes about visual art, home design,

and music, etc.)

"Everybody's brain works differently."

A quote from a National Public Radio broadcast,

about brain function, creativity and

problem solving. How your brain works and

what you think is beautiful will obviously

affect the garden you create...

also to be considered is your budget, and your

own ability to DIY.  Much of my inspiration

(and quotes) came from the BBC TV show

Left, a Downspout in the shape of a dragon/Gargoyle -
Right, sculpture for your garden a la Easter Island head!

'Big Dreams, Small Spaces' and 

quotes from the presenter,

Monty Don.

I felt it necessary to draw a child's wagon,

because it is one of the things I've used in

my own garden to display pots of 

flowers.  It finally got too rusty to hold

pots, and I mourn its loss! 

I figured that insects and wildlife are goals

that gardeners also seek for their 

gardens...

Of course, a gardener should wear

a sun hat for protection.

Time spent doodling, and "on hold" went into

the journal, along with lovely painted 

papers gifted to me by my friend Diana.

Collage elements:  I find them fun, but then the 

values of the background impact how you draw

your subject and making sure there is 

enough contrast to see what is going on.  I think

perhaps the tulip drawing didn't work out to 'read'

as well as I like.  But you learn by trying new

things and this background was lovely! Maybe 

I could go back in with more paint around the

tulip blooms? hmmm....

Unorthodox is a good word for what my

'gardening character' was...

Left, a quote from Apartment Therapy, a home decorating website

Hardest thing: finding something 'garden-related'

that I could draw within the one-hour time frame

that I wanted to stay within. 

Another challenge:  finding things that were different

enough to keep things interesting. I didn't want 

an entire book of drawings of plants, though there

would be nothing wrong with that.

Surprise: not having an organized group of people 

doing the same project left me feeling

a bit lost.  Which seems odd because 

most years that I've participated,

that was not a part of the process. 

I'm not sure what next year holds,

but I'll still be journaling and drawing, 

whether it's a

"Fake Journal" character, or the 

real me! 

As Roz says:

"Your journal preferences may change

over time...it's part of the 

discovery and adventure."