Sit back and let the cash roll in, all the while being amused by people watching, seeing the weirdest dog cross of your life - Basset Hound and St Bernard - chatting with your lovely table neighbours and soaking up the compliments about what you've made.
Then come home to walk the dogs on the beach and paddle in the lovely warm sea.
This final piece I did on canvas board - wood would've been better I think but I didn't have any. There is a very thick layer of gel medium, removed where the two 'windows' are. And as usual, layers upon layers upon layers of acrylics and un peu de collage. Because of the drying time necessary between each layer, these paintings can take a while, although the hairdryer came into its own during this course. Sadly these photos don't show the true colours - in reality it's much darker and richer looking.
There will be more done to this one, to make the most of the windows, just as soon as I've got over The Fear of Messing It Up.
The main focus of the Week 4 class is layering and secret pockets. On the page below, although you can't see it, there is: a bunch of writing from my critical self that says mean things, followed by a layer of paint, soluble wax crayons, stamping, tissue paper, vellum, some kind of waxy paper I discovered under the bed in a box, music scores, more paint, masking tape, and topped off with a photo of me taken last year (kidding) and a little 'love letter' to myself to replace the mean thoughts from earlier.
I've written a diary on and off since the age of 11, have been journaling for all of five minutes, and hands down this is more therapeutic. I think it's a two pronged thing; you can get all your yucky feelings out and onto the page and then cover them up and replace them with kindness to yourself, and any kind of creative activity is healing in itself anyway.
In the meantime I've been making making making, amongst which, these scrabble tile magnets.
I was scratching my head about how to present them, and after fixating for a while on small pieces of metal (where I was planning to find these I don't know), I settled on sturdy cardboard strips. I am v pleased with the result! 
They are made by sticking patterned papers onto the tiles, then varnishing them with Diamond Glaze, and embellishing some of them with buttons or little sticky on things. 
These are from lesson 3 of my art journaling class, which involved different collage techniques and altering photos (haven't done that bit yet). I found it more therapeutic than I'd imagined, making a page about how I feel about things. In fact, parts of it I hadn't even realised went together until it was pointed out.
When I started this page, in my mind the left and right were not connected, but they clearly are, in colours and in wistfulness. There is altogether rather a lot of pink/purple going on here; I think my next pages will have to be a bit less saccharine. I've got lots of ideas bubbling up now - in some ways this seems to work better than writing things in my diary every night. Also I don't see these pages as necessarily finished; the nature of my work is to go away and come back, and there is lots of room for doodling in front of the tv, always a bonus.
I love Photoscape. I'm not quite up to PhotoSHOP but Photoscape any idiot can do. Hooray!
You can download it free HERE.
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