Can you tell it was a happy day? No matter what is going on in my world, when I get painty it is always a fabulous day! These happy hands and my muse collaborated to bring me a bird-ephant with an important reminder! I squirted a bunch of colors and closed my eyes! With [...]
Art Journaling
Challenge #4 from Fall Fearless and Fly inspired this page. The quote resonated with me and I knew that it had to be a big part of this art journal page. I really tried to stay with the cool color prompt but a bit of yellow managed to sneak in on me. It looked so [...]
In some circles the 3 R’s are reading, writing, and arithmetic- but not in my world. It’s ribbon, rub-ons, and rubber stamps. That’s the latest Artsy Fartsy Friendly Fun challenge with my creative friend, Maria McGuire. The rules are simple. Use the 3 things in anything and in any way. Be sure to check out [...]
The mortgage is due. There is an issue with the insurance company that I need to follow up on. The garden needs to be shut down for winter. Lots of cleaning should be done. What did I do? None of that! I got out my Gelli Plate. Once it was out of the plastic [...]
Triumph and defeat seem to be best friends in my studio. Every time one showed up, the other was just around the corner. Perhaps what I thought of as defeat is simply being way outside of my comfort zone. The plan was to do the color prompt for Fall Fearless and Fly. I had [...]
I am happy- there is paint on my fingers! Every so often my muse takes long vacations away from me so I work on the mundane parts of art then. Here is a piece of rosin paper (big cheap roll from the hardware store!) with tags gesso’d on. I have sheets of these I made [...]
On Friday, I honored to be the guest poster on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s blog for Art Journal Every Day. I’ve had so many requests emailed to me about the other sides of the dice I decided to do another post about them. How did I decide what to put on the dice? The [...]
It has been an insane couple of weeks. Big projects and deadlines in what felt like every aspect of my life. Good things but stressful things. I finally found some time to just play in the studio. While making this page I was reminded over and over of how the support of kind friends made [...]
I never know where or when art-spiration will appear- this time from inside this work-in-progress. Tracy Verdugo, who taught a great class at Art Is You, had us notice the “good parts” of the canvas. I was so taken with a couple of spots, I knew I wanted to experiment more with them. This [...]
I am still feeling the influence of the first Fall Fearless and Fly challenge, as you can see from my color palette! I love challenges because I get to see how different artists interpret the same prompts. Want to play? There is still plenty of time for you to join us! The seed that [...]
