BAJ Prompt: In A Fishbowl

ASSIGNMENT
Half Themes - you take one page of your journal (or one spread, if you have a small journal) and divide it in half in any direction you like and create your layout in the limited space that you have made.This week's theme is "In a Fish Bowl". (from Blissfully Art Journaling)

MY PROCESS
Mark 1:19 "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."

I wanted to create an image of people trapped in the "fishbowl of the life" and being offered the lure of hope.

I made the fishbowl collage on paper, then cut it in half and pasted it onto my journal page. I glued a piece of bark to represent a fishing pole. The "fishing line" is a piece of yarn that is glued to the "fishing pole" and then dangles loose.


MY THOUGHTS
The collage got kind of smeary from the glue, and then the paint seemed to absorb weird or something and made it really dark.

I thought it was an intriguing idea, and rather well represented, but the method is a bit a sloppy.

BAJ Prompt: Favorite Prayer

THE ASSIGNMENT

Use this theme [a favorite prayer] as a prompt for poetry or other musings in your art journal...keeping in mind a visual element along with the writings. (from Blissfully Art Journaling)

MY PROCESS

This isn't my "favorite prayer" - but it was a prayer that I was able to visualize.

I used a portion of a poem I wrote a few years ago:

My faith is balanced on a pedestal
displayed like priceless artistry

one thoughtless gesture
one careless stumble

My faith could plummet to the ground
and suspend me in a breathless moment

and combined that with the prayer in Luke 22:32:

“But,” Jesus said, “I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not.”

For the visual elements I added a very simple collage of a "pedestal" (as mentioned in the poem) and a sketch of a hand (symbolizing that Jesus will "catch my faith" if it wavers).

MY THOUGHTS

I struggled with not wanting to add too much that would distract from the words, so I think that the picture may be overly simple. My biggest triumph was the hand - I (who cannot draw) sketched that!