Comfort foods - art journal page


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The idea:

Think about your favourite foods, the things - childhood and adulthood - that bring your comfort, make you feel warm when you're cold, up when you're down, and easy when you're feeling frazzled.

Do:

  • Create a background of a colour that brings you comfort, using paint, pencil, or papers.
  • Collect images from magazines and other sources, even ones you take yourself.
  • Collect recipes if there are any, perhaps ones that are even a bit different from what you normally prepare.
  • Cut everything to suit, and play around with arrangements until you're happy with what you have then glue everything down.
  • Add some descriptive text to the page - about flavours, ingredients, memories of past times you've enjoyed the foods.
  • You could embellish the page with ephemera like labels, packaging, or pieces of other things that bring you comfort.

Notes:

  • You could use a photo of a food you prepared yourself as the centrepiece and arrange everything around it.
  • You could go big and create a separate page for each of your favourite foods - with recipes - and either keep it in your memory box or give it as a gift to someone.


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