4. Colour me a layout!
You have now collected some monochrome stash, and a photo or two.
On this layout, your journalling is going to be BIGGER than the photo!
Now take an appropriate pen and shade of paper and pick one or more of the following exercises. You might click with the first one you try or it may take longer, but keep trying until you have something to work with: to end up with 1 or 2 paragraphs (100-130 words).
- Why did you pick that colour for your monochrome LO?
I picked purple because Sharon sent me purple and it’s one of my favourite colours – it’s one of the colours in Basic Grey Fusion that I like so much. I had a purple bedroom when I was a teenager ….etc. - What does that colour mean to you?
Purple is a royal colour, very sophisticated in the seventies. Mary Quant and the hip generation. - What else do you have that is that colour?
I have a pink dressing gown, it’s fleecy, comfortable and warm, but was given to me by my mum so it isn’t really mine… I wish my dressing gown was my own choice… - Find an object that is that colour and handle it – what does it feel like? What texture is your colour?
The vase is blue – it feels smooth and cold. I didn’t like it when I got it as a wedding present but in fact when yellow and orange roses and lilies are arranged in it, it looks beautiful. And I actually like blue flowers like irises and bluebells … - What has that colour meant to you in the past?
Green reminds me of my school uniform and how I hated wearing those thick woolly tights, even though they were warm in the winter. My schoolmates used to turn over the waist of their uniform skirts to make them more of a miniskirt… (N.B. the colour green got me reminiscing about school uniform, and I developed that theme.)
· Write for 10 minutes without stopping – doesn’t matter if you write absolute rubbish, just don’t stop – starting with a colour. When you’ve finished, pick out anything meaningful and develop that theme.
Go with the flow! When you’ve got about two paragraphs go back and polish them – write it out again and improve on your wording or your spelling if you need to (or not!). End up with 100-130 words.
Practice this bit on scrap paper if you’re not sure: Pick an appropriate light coloured paper/cardstock about 5 inches wide (and as long as possible!) and collect as many pens of the relevant colour as you can (e.g., purple shades). Draw light lines in pencil if you don’t think you can stay straight. Leaving about half an inch either side, write out your piece of journalling, changing pen colour every few words, or using a special colour for special words. You’ll carry on until you’ve finished the piece, then trim the bottom edge of the journalling card to suit the size of your journalling. Ink round the outside.
You can computer generate your journalling if you like – this is about what you write rather than how you write!
Now put your LO together. You can scraplift mine, or create your own. The only rule is to make the journalling the feature.
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