GPP Street Team, Crusade 61

I want to welcome my new followers!  And all my worn-out followers!  It takes a lot of fortitude to stick with me, so I love you all!!

Today, kids, I'm celebrating Michelle Ward's 61st Street Team Challenge by actually stepping up to it!  Ironically enough, she's titled this challenge: Restraining Order.  I find this ironic in so many ways, and not just because of the injunction.

previous canvas--icky, covered with gesso

main colors glooped down randomly

But we don't have to go into that here.  For our purposes today, we're going to address Michelle's challenge to allow and even, to welcome, the vast open spaces of the un-adorned journal page (or canvas or aluminum siding or whatever you happen to have handy at any given time).  It really can be difficult to allow space on a journal page or canvas to rest without collaging or doodles or embellishment. But I so admire it when people are at peace with their spaces.

heavy bodied acrylics spread with edge of plastic gift card

blue added.  several layers spread beyond this one.

So, with no further doo-doo, I present my offering for this challenge.  I've titled it, encroaching, because I believe it has an ironic tie-in to Michelle's title.

Also, it's the first title I thought of.

textured with waxed-paper-lift technique, 

gesso and paint stamping, 

lettering with bamboo skewer

To any of youse who have not visited the Street Team and its contributors, you've been Missing Out!  I suggest--no, I implore! that you zip on over to the Street Team and challenge yourself to the art of restrainment.  Restrainism.

Just control yourself.