I’ll Follow You Anywhere | art journal page by Dale Ann Cubbage
The Inspiration
This is Dale Ann here to share a page that was inspired by a song. If you ask me what my favorite song is, I usually can’t answer just one song. And I usually tell you that it changes from day to day. Today, I have a clear answer, it’s a song called, “We Rise,” by Cageless Birds, and it has been like a spa for my soul this week. I cannot get enough of it. Here are some of the lyrics.
We rise by bowing, We live by dying
When we give what we can never keep
We gain what we will never lose
Like beauty from ashes, and joy from mourning
Only You can take brokenness
And make it something beautiful
The line about taking something broken and making it something beautiful reminded me of these #tinycollages I’ve been making lately. They are actually made from little bits and scraps of paper. The parts I didn’t want or use in another project. Some people might look at those little bits of paper and thought it was just trash and thrown it out. But then there are those people who look at those discarded remnants and see the beauty in them. A couple of days ago my daughter walked in the house and asked me what I was doing. I said, “gluing pieces of trash to other pieces of trash.” She just shook her head at me. I guess she couldn’t see what I saw. I saw little pieces of promise. Little bits of beautiful things that can be made into more beautiful things in the hands of a creator.
That my friends is what inspired this art journal page. I’ve been those broken bits that probably should have been thrown out. But He looked at me and saw the beauty hidden in the pile of my bits and pieces. There is a lyric that says, “I’ll follow You anywhere. I’ll follow you anywhere You wanna go.” When you find someone who accepts you and all your broken pieces, you don’t want to let them get away.
So here’s my page, I hope you like it.
The Page
The Details
Here is a close up of my tiny collage. It is attached with double sided tape.
I let the tiny collage determine the colors for the page. I have used the following paints from BGC”s Haute Mess collection on this art journal page.
The Process
I have mixed the Caution Tape and a little Distortion to get the warm shade of yellow I needed. Then I made that my base color.
Next I scraped the very last bit of my Sweet Candy Kisses out of the jar and spread it through a stencil to get some color, texture and floral design on the page. After that I used some white gesso to push the bright colors into the background a little. I then proceeded to splatter on some Drop Dead Gorgeous and a black acrylic paint across the whole page.
The words came directly from the song, and I printed them out on my printer and cut them out. I took a pen and drew messy lines around them and splattered them with some black and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Then I just attached with a glue stick.
The Final Look
I just love how my Paper Doll Palace art journal is filling up! I love to have the pages opposite each other coordinate. It’s almost full and so beautiful!
Here is one more photo, up close.
Well, that’s a wrap for me! I only have one more page left to post for this month! Be sure to come back and check out all the gorgeous work from my fellow Bad Girl Couture Artists!
Dale Ann
