Friday 10 July 2009

Wrecking Crew

This week I have had some help with my wrecking. My 'Ask a Friend to do something DESTRUCTIVE' page has been completed and I didn't look while it was being wantonly destroyed. Mostly because it was taking place the other side of the Atlantic form me in Canada at the hands of my soul sister Mel.

I now have a delightful little coaster to sit on my art table amongst all my clutter! I also have a little innocent journal page with which to wreck some havoc. Mel also sent a lovely pressed flower for my pressed page and her daughter sent some goodies (see a different post).

I took my journal to the far west of this island I live on but I didn't do as I planned and lose my page there. I instead lost it in a small fishing cove near there. I wrote things I wanted to lose on the back and crumpled it up into a ball. I threw it for Little Dog a couple of times and she would run after it, pounce on it, throw it in the air and then drop it. When I threw it in the sea, she grabbed it back out again. She then dropped it but those sneaky waves came and stole it and within seconds it had vanished into a forest of seaweed....

I did a few other destructive things - nothing overly exotic really....
I coloured pages with oil pastels and then ripped and glued and taped...


I drew pictures with glitter glue and then closed the book so it spread...


I dropped silk paints onto a page and watched them spread. I intend to clean this page up by spattering it with bleach but I havn't gotten there yet.


I discovered that the silk paints had soaked through and I loved the way they made this page look.

I coloured the lines that were coloured outside of the line....

I do feel my wrecking pace has slowed. I am trying to not neglect other projects as much and my wrecking is now mostly confined to the weekend really.

Don't forget to click on the picture of the journal in my sidebar and go see what others have been doing!

15 comments:

  1. I've been experimenting with the silk paints too - I'd never really thought of using them on paper before which is pretty silly. And, as I never actually use them much for silk, I might as well make use of them! Like the sudden, destructive, unpredictable movement through paper! Very clever!! (Just pretend that's what you intended all along!!). Very nice wrecking there.

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  2. I love how it is wrecked but also pretty and colorful at the same time. I especially like the tear strips page.

    And Mel did a wonderful job too.

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  3. She did, didn't she. I am still trying to think of what to do with her page!

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  4. Wow--this is so cool--and beautiful, too!
    Fabulous wrecking!

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  5. Very creative wrecking. The silk paint stains are really interesting and I really like that you wrote the things you wanted to lose on the page and sent it out to sea. The beaches look really wild there.

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  6. The silk paints worked wonderfully! And the ripped page is awesome!

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  7. How awesome. You did a wonderful job. Happy wrecking see ya next week.

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  8. Such colorful wrecking. Well done! Love all of them! :)

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  9. I am inspired by this. Your page lost at sea is wonderful. Particularly since it was full of things you wanted to lose.

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  10. The idea of writing things you want to lose wasn't mine. Not sure whose it was. I read it somewhere but it was second hand there so no idea who first had the idea... I am notoriously bad at remembering names which never helps...

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  11. Love your wrecking this week. Mel did a great job.
    The idea of losing or burning bad thoughts is such a release. I've done it a few times and it really did help.
    Take care.

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  12. Great wrecking! I love that the page was taken out to sea! How fabulous! :)

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  13. Well, I think you've done a fabulous job - I love that you lost your page several times only to have it come back to you - then it was gone for good (from your hands.)

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  14. dont you love those unpredictable bleed thrus?

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  15. How wonderful. I just loved reading about your "lose this page." What a beautiful experience. May you be rid of all that you sent away. And may that space be filled with your heart's desires :)

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