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the ABC of blogging

Well goshy goll! I’m very touched to be included in this award by Seascapeaus The ABC award asks the recipient to name 26 alphabetical things about themselves, so here we go (some cheating may occur) the A-Z of Ephemeral Gecko!

Ambient
Bouyant
Contradictory
Defining
Effervescent
Flowing
Giddying
Hopeful
Intriguing
Joyful
Kaleidoscopic
La la la….
Meandering
New
Open
Personal
Questioning
Real
Symbolic
Themed
Unaware
Voluminous
Wondering
Xtraordinary
Yellowish
Zingy

Now the deal here is that I should now be nominating another bunch of awesome bloggings, and these are they:

Bettina’s Treehouse A recent find for me, Bettina makes gorgeous mixed media (amongst other stuff) in truly delish colors. I look forward to exploring more of her art in the future and am sure you will too.

Dog River Cat House Studio Mixed media journalling filled with
vibrancy and spirited fun. And again, fabtastic colors 😀

Chocolate is a Verb so apart from the name, which I love, here is a fascinating collection of clever wordery + some marvelously colorful photos + ‘Frolics, Whims and Flavors’. What more could anyone want!

and up to date!

Continuing the catch up

Day 11 is an either way up day. I like these days the best! I did this with white oil pastel as a resist to the splatters and splashes of watercolor and acrylics.

Day 12. Watercolor again. Not in the delicately conventional manner with subtlety and fragile grace. No. Slopped on with an inch wide brush. And some more theraputic splattering.

Day 13 watercolors on a background of collaged torn up paper. Sprinkled with water for added dappliness.

Day 14 fell right in the midst of my obsessive dyed paper thing making episode. One side of the page is encrusted in left overs!

Day 15 has a paper mosaic running right across, then watercolor and ink sploshes.

Day 16. Zing! How these colors make me grin like a wide-eyed fool! Alternating between yellows and turquoises (watercolor and ink), splashes and drips, water swish, and speed drying with hot air dryer to chase the puddlings about the paper.

recent days

Back to the page a day project, unaccountably I seem to have ten days backed up and un-shown-off to you! How did that happen??!
Sitting comfortably? Here they come…………………………
Day 7 was the day I first played with black gesso. Delighted! I was expecting a kinda chalky grey-ish-ness that absolutely isn’t there. My new love in life is gesso. Words can’t express my joy at its cover-up-ability, it’s smooth creamy texture and lush slide-about-the-page-ness it has. YUM. This was the base for the swirls in guache and acrylic.

Day 8 is a showcase of the bits of scraps and fragments and dead leaves I save ‘in the name of art’. I know I’m in safe company here, you understand!

Day 9 is built up in layers of dyed paper and stencilled experimental gessoed tissue paper.

Day 10 is upside down. When I was getting towards the end of the previous book I showed it to some friends, as one leafed through the pages and said “Some pages make me feel like I’m upside down in this book”. “Yes, just like some days feel upside down”. This was one of those days!
This was also my first EasterEgg day (tissue paper swished with water, like I did here)

3 BIG thank yous

Thank you #1 goes to Phillipa aka Seascapesaus for nominating me for the Awesome Blog Content Award

Thank you also to Not Just A Mummy for the One Lovely Blog Award

And finally to Obscured Dreamer for the Illuminating Blogger Award

Guys, what can I say? I’m overwhelmed! When I began my foray into bloggery just a few months ago I could never have guessed at how much support and appreciation I’d find along the way. You guys are the best.

Sincere thanks. And cake! Have wonderful weekends, I’ll be posting more on the above over the weekend 😀

gathering momentum: destination unknown

But who cares? it’s the journey that’s the fun bit, who cares where we end up!

The dyed paper things are growing and multiplying.

(They kept me up really late last night …Love them, but they’re so moorish!) 😉

A book of eggs

For a little something extra in the current page a day book, before I began I laid some kinda Easter Eggs.

Randomly placed between empty pages, I hid inky scraps of paper, and splattered a little extra ink for good measure.

Some pages just have swished and dripped inks (for a colorful Rorshach effect!)

The book was shut tight for the colors to squish and be absorbed by days yet to come.