I looked at the NaNoJouMo song-title prompt today (“Lightning Bolt” by Jake Bugg) and decided I could do a small art journal page in less than 30 minutes. And I did.
I used spray inks and Distress stains to create this. The most difficult part was cutting the card stock masks to keep the spray inks where I wanted them. I finished up by writing and drawing the stick figure and the bare tree with a black Fude pen. The words along the slope are from a line in the song: “In the path of a lightning bolt”.
This took 20 minutes which is all I wanted to spend on art this morning since I have other, more pressing creative and non-creative things to do today. I hope you can spend at least 20 minutes being creative today too!
November 17, 2014 at 9:59 am
I love the strong diagonal line created by the inks and the way it interacts with and complements the zigzag of the lightning strike.
November 17, 2014 at 10:13 am
Thank you! In photography (and I’m sure in art too) it’s the rule of thirds. I wasn’t exact with the dimensions but I tried to eyeball it.