I looked at my girls today and realized that they are growing up and I like who they are becoming. They are growing up right and right now. A background made of paint & a scrap of inked map glued on long ago. This was a forgotten background until I was sparked today to use [...]
Art Journaling
The colors this week for the Summer of Color threw me for a loop. I don’t use browns very often so baseball nut colors of raspberry and brown stumped me. To get moving on it I decided to stop thinking and just do. I wish I could tell you that I carefully planned out using [...]
The little person, looking all befuddled to me, jumped out at me when I was flipping through my journal looking for a spark to start a page. I am usually a type A kind of person (which serves me well in many many areas of my life), but in my art I find my type [...]
I have been making all sorts of changes in my life and change can be a bit intimidating and exhilarating all at the same time! This was on my mind as I was making a journal page for this week’s mint chocolate chip Summer of Color challenge. A huge reminder to me to keep my [...]
The first color I associate with the ocean is blue but the more I thought about it the entire rainbow is in the ocean. The plants, fish, birds, the driftwood, the shells, all the stuff in the ocean is full of color. I started with blue for this journal page but ended up adding a [...]
My virtual vacation is taking to Turks and Caicos today! This page brings back such wonderful vacation feelings for me. I can almost hear the waves and see my kids para-sailing high above the beach. Notice I said my kids, not me. Best thing I brought in my traveling art case- the [...]
I’m on my virtual vacation, lounging by the ocean in the summer sun. I needed a vacation, so I took one! I couldn’t get away to the beach, being in a land locked state so I decided I could at least take one virtually! All my friends, new and old, are welcome to join me [...]
I am so glad I booked this virtual vacation! I needed it! Just looking at this photo reminds me of the creative energy the ocean was sending to me! I used markers, paint, gesso, and oil pastels for this page in my altered book. The waves must be getting to me because I don’t even [...]
Have you ever looked at the ocean and seen the stripes of color? All the shades of blues, greens, and every combination of the two in an ever changing pattern as the sun hits the water. Happy place. This art journal page was inspired by those layers of blue. I chose the word evidence because [...]
When I am on vacation I like to splurge on treats- this virtual vacation is no different! I used my new Jane Davenport stamp and my new Julie Balzer stencil and matching stamp on this page! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46G3PKhaEq8&feature=plcp Arting on vacation even grabbed the attention of some of the locals. Okay, really this fish was just [...]
