WOYWW Michael de Meng workshop - Navigators Journal

Woweee! Who had the best time last week?! I joined a great group of ladies for a fabulous workshop with the inimitable Michael de Meng, who's work totally rocks, http://www.michaeldemeng.blogspot.com/.  A great bonus was the gorgeous Andrea Matus, Michaels fiancee, was there too and we got to see her faboulous work as well. We're not worthy!

Michael is a great tutor and workshop mentor - sooooo much to learn and so little time!  Especially for someone who dropped art because she couldn't draw or paint and the art teacher ridiculed her work, art class was an ordeal to say the least!

First stop - the flea market to get bits for the journal! 

I wanted to use what I found there, trinkets just weren't happening for me.

I came back with very little on that score - dolls, swimming goggles and a door knocker!! 

What  do I make out of that?????!!!

Soooooo, I got to work with a doll and my Navigators journal,

letting it evolve into it's own self..

It gave way to some sort of Amy Johnson notion

And the zipper - the opening of the world...

....I need an eye to go into that keyhole!

There is more work to do - it doesn't feel finished

The inside isn't finished and I am not showing that until it is!

So here we have it, an apocalyptic Amy Johnson

the quote at the top "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Not named it yet, she is a gateway to the future by way of life and the past and present.

More a ghost of the future as a warning that the future of the planet and society is in our hands.

This was way outside of what I do and I learnt so much.  

I have long time wanted to do something apocalyptic/Mad Max style so this is true serendipity! 

I just need to finish it before I start trying out techniques on other stuff!

We were armed with lots of techniques to use in our own style.....

.....whatever my style is!!!!