Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. Charlie Parker’s quote really resonated with me as I held Nathalie Kalbach’s Stand Up Bass stencil from StencilGirl Products. I don’t play a musical instrument anymore. With good reason. I am nearly [...]
Art Journaling
There are amazing things and people all around me. I don’t always notice them but they are there. When I take a moment to give them a chance their amazing-ness is revealed. My muse reminded me today to slow down, take a breath, and let the world be amazing. The art journal page I started [...]
The ocean. It’s my happy place and where my muse lives. So no shocker that I jumped for joy when I saw June Pfaff Daley’s latest designs. She has 4! You can check them all out over at the new stencils area at StencilGirl Products. On this painted [...]
I have fond memories of Greece and am in awe of ancient Greece. Love the old temples, the history, the mystery of it all! When I saw this stencil by Maria McGuire for StencilGirl Products I was flooded with memories of my visits. Maria and I decided this stencil was to be our Artsy Fartsy [...]
I am always amazed by how art journaling connects me to my feelings. Cleaning out part of my studio led me to finding the pink graffiti paper I made long ago. All the bright colors and foam stamps and drips and splats felt right to me so I quit cleaning and made this…at least [...]
Summer is in full swing here as I get back into the studio after a trip to the beach. The long drive gave me extra time to get the planning part done for my next workshop and a start on a few other projects soon to be revealed. While I am finishing up a few [...]
Vacation is about relaxing and I have to have some kind of art journaling thing with me to fully enjoy the beach. When I found this plastic storage container at the grocery I bought it! Cheap and functional. I felt quite brilliant when I wondered, what if I used the lid as my paint palette? [...]
So how do you get rid of fear when art journaling? Just say Oops! What does Oops stand for? Outstanding Opportunities Presenting Suddenly! Here’s how I use Oops when I art journal to keep fear from limiting my creativity… The white was supposed to be pure white and not have streaks of orange in [...]
Getting started is the toughest part for me many days. Where do I start? What do I make? What colors do I use? These are just questions from a cranky inner critic designed to keep me from getting to my creative side. So, I decided I was going to shut that critic up by [...]
Lesley Riley is celebrating her class, Mastering the Art of Transfers on Multiple Surfaces with a fantastic blog hop! You get to see so many different artists using TAP and there is a giveaway on each and every blog! Including this one! Be sure to leave a comment here by Wed., July, 10th at [...]
