While reading some of the amazing Art Every Day blogs (and there are MANY GREAT BLOGS to inspire!), one idea resonated very strongly with me. This post discussed creating as a child and to adult. “I believe that the things we love to do as children are the things that are meant to [...]
Art Journaling
November starts the Art Every Day Month 2011 challenge. As I tried to figure out what to do I found myself paralyzed by my inner critic. I had to find a way around that critic so I just started writing my favorite word, trust. I wrote it in different pens. I wrote it in different [...]
Crusade 56 challenged me. Tell about myself as an artist…hmmm…I hadn’t thought about it much, I just did it. There are little scraps of paper all over the house today as I’d get a thought and write it down on any scrap I could find. When I looked at all my slips I realized [...]
Thought I’d share the photos I took while making this journal page. I like to look back at what effect different elements had on my composition. Some things I will do again, some I probably won’t.
An old game called Probe has given me so much. The cards just have plain letters on them so they were just waiting for some color…The rub-ons were a very important step for me -the hoarder in me wanted to save them since I LOVE them.
My last post showed you how to use a transparency with straight lines. For this page I used the same technique to make wavy lines for journaling. Start by slicing a transparency.Use your finger to smear paint on it. The first one I did was cleaner – I immediately did the 2nd one and I [...]
A leftover transparency made my black lines. Take an ordinary transparency. Notice this is a dirty, junky one. Use an Exacto knife to slice lines in it. Take paint and rub it around on top of the lines. Your paint will seep and be wonderfully splotchy in a random way.Here are 3 that I did [...]
Here’s the status of the art from my trip to Valley Ridge Art Studios for a the Raising the Bar weekend workshop with Michelle Ward: 2 are finished. These 2 are waiting – waiting for me to decide if I want to leave them as they are or add more. I usually add more than [...]
My favorite quote lately is ” Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working,” by Pablo Picasso. I hadn’t been finding much inspiration today (stuck) so I just decided to be working. I used the leftovers from some chipboard I die cut recently and then just started inking, painting, dripping, gluing, and writing. This [...]
A page in process. I’ve been loving circles and arrows lately. Not sure where this will go next but I do know that I really wish I had a free motion foot on my sewing machine for this one….
