Tonight I was playing with an idea.  I wanted to journal my last week, but I wanted to hide the journaling after I had written it.  I could have done this in one of my art journals, but I saw this unopened 11″ x 14″ canvas and thought “Why not?”.  The canvas was already primed so I pulled out my black india ink and my dip pen and wrote in a circular motion all around the canvas.  (I have blurred out the writing, but you can still get the idea).

I let the canvas dry for a bit and then covered it with a light coat of gesso.  As it turned out, the india ink had not completely dried yet and was bleeding into the gesso.   Hmm, now what?  I finished coating it with gesso and then grabbed a paper towel and started rubbing the paper towel in a circular motion, top to bottom, in strips.  This is what was created.

Shades of grey in wave forms.  You would not know that there was ever any journaling underneath, but I know that the writing I did tonight was soothing and put an exclamation point at the end of a very difficult week.  I’m going to let this dry overnight and see where I want to go with it tomorrow.

Keep it simple!