Art Journal- Soup of the Day

Do you know the feeling you get when everything in your life is going right? When you finally start to get ahead on your bills and are able to start saving? The problem is that the feeling never seems to last long. We seem to be constantly running into issues that  break down our savings. Most recently this was taking our cat to the Vet. While we are super happy that he's feeling better right now we are struggling to balance all of our bills with our remaining funds. This art journal page relates to this situation.

It's based on the Documented Life prompt from the week of April 18th, " A lot on my plate". The art challenge was gelli plates but I don't have one so I didn't do that part. I actually started it at that time and had inspiration strike when we ordered chinese food. I had a fortune cookie that said "A clean tie attracts the soup of the day". I started by sketching in a bowl and added watercolor to the background.

It sat like this until this weekend when our increased stress inspired me to finally finish it. I printed out a bunch of photos to represent things that are going on in our lives. I made each one about an inch square and glued them in like the noodles in the soup. Some of the things are positive and some are stressful, like the piggy bank with the needle on empty.

After that I added a brownish yellow wash inside the bowl to look like broth for egg drop or chicken noodle soup. I also added more paint to the blue green splotched but I actually don't like the way that part turned out, I wished I had left it the way it was.

Finally I added some extra shading and a border on the bowl. My plan was to put the fortune in the upper left hand corner with some kind of flourish but right now I can't find that fortune. My husband and I order chinese a lot and I started saving all the fortunes years ago. I know it's here somewhere and I'll add it whenever it turns up.