Fire, Water, Earth + Air An Outdoor Journal by Jeff Owenby
This is the first altered peice I've done in a long time. I began it in late April from our Menucha trip. I decided to create my own symbols representing the four elements, and did this with Adobe Illustrator.
Aside from the different styles of art, it also includes a DVD of relaxing video that focuses on the four elements of the journal. It's also titled "Fire, Water, Earth + Air" and features an altered DVD cover.
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I started off by painting the cover with acrylics. I then treated each page to the same, using a dry brush style. The fire photos are all screencaps from my "Backroads" series. I then hand-lettered the pages. |
 Again, using screencaps for the campfire pics, I fixed them to an acrylic splattered background. |
The background of this page is acrylic painting of a campfire. |
 The snow background is again an acrylic painting. I fixed some dried bark to the page, then hand-lettered. |
I used a photo of rain-dropped Ponderosa needles. Terry braided the green and tan raffia for me since I was "braid challenged". The plastic vile attached is pure Oregon rain water from April and May. |
 Collected rain water. |
The photo on this page is of a quiet pond. I fixed a green leaf that I'd been saving for some time, then painted the background with acrylics, and added river bottom detail with a fine brush. |
 The Hood River taken from a summer camping/fishing trip. This river is a favorite focus of mine, largely because I love the area so much, plus it's a very fast-moving river, and I love fast water. The background is acrylic. |
I used a photo taken from a desert thunderstorm in summer. The Indian woman is from a drawing I did 30 years ago copied from an original watercolor called "White Feather". I can't recall the artist's name, but I changed the face to make her look more like a Native American. |
 Panther Creek, April 2008. |
The photo is from a wicked storm that hit us at Christmas time. I painted the background with acrylic, then tried my hand at using cotton fixed with clear gesso. In the photo it looks like white paint, but it's actually cotton. The wind nearly blew me over after I snapped this photo. |
 Gorgeous Autumn. The leaves have been dried and pressed from various trees, collected over 5 years ago. |
The cloud shot was taken from the same skies that provided the rain collected in the tiny bottle. The photo of the Pampas grass on the windy beach was just before a massive rainstorm. |
 "An Island in the Sky" Mt. Hood zoomed in on a brisk day in October. |
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 The Hood River. |
 The inside of the back cover. |