Kel's   Painted   Paradise

 

Journal 52 Prompt Week 20 : Book Inspired 

 

The prompt was to make a page about a book you read. 

To be honest I don't enjoy reading, I'm to impatient and I

end up skipping to the end to find out what happens. 

I much prefer to watch films or dramas, as I can find out the ending quicker... 

 

I do however read informative books and non fictional books. Which is why a based this Art journal page on a book I have. It is called: American Indian Design and Decoration by Le Roy H. Appleton.

This book is full of wonderful images, facts, stories and poetry.

 

I used images from this book as reference for my page, 

decided to make a girl standing between two totem poles. The girl is a collage of different pieces of paper. The dress is from a piece of patterned scrap paper I had and then I decorated it further with some American Indian designs from my book, I then added feathers to her hair. 

 

I used different coloured Crayons scribbled over paper and then I scratched on to it to create a pattern. I then cut into it in order to create a grass like effect and added  it to the bottom of my page. To complete this art journal page I added a Native American Proverb 

"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows." ~