I’m so glad I photographed my Jaded & Frustrated journal page when I did, because I ended up wreaking some serious havoc on it the other night. I was attempting to do an image transfer, something I know full well I don’t really know how to do, and the solvent did basically nothing to the image I was transferring but loosened up the paint on both the page I was working on and the previous one – the New Year’s page. When I tried burnishing the image in an attempt to get better results with the transfer, I ended up “gluing” the pages together with their own paint. Ugh. This is why I should really have a separate journal for art experiments! And it also highlights for me that I need to make a concerted effort to sit myself down and properly LEARN the stuff I want to use in my art but don’t know how. I can’t remember if I made this page right after The Transfer Incident or not, but this is my To Learn list for the year. Click to go to my Flickr stream to see it larger.

P.S. I’ve finally caved in and joined Twitter like all the cool kids! I am @Eccentric_Betsi on there, and if I know what I’m doing (which is somewhat doubtful) this is a link to my profile. Feel free to follow me! :) I’m still figuring it out, to a certain extent, but it looks like fun.