I’ve been out of town relaxing with troublemakers, I mean friends. I have a huge stack of “should do” work after being gone, but I decided to play instead. Better to take care of my creative soul than my laundry right? As I was catching up on my internet friends, I found all sorts of [...]
Mixed Media
As a kid I wanted to be an archeologist. The magic of unearthing history was so enticing to me until I learned about real archeology. Any time I found a real dig to go on it involved potential snakes (South America), intense heat, bugs galore and sparse accommodations. I wanted to do archeology in an [...]
A story of friends, two young artists at heart Inspired together, though so far apart Maria just loved to Believe Dream Create A Colorful Journey was Carolyn’s fate They arted their artiness each other week And found that a challenge is what they would seek So then they decided that it would be fun To [...]
First I had artist’s block. So I decided I would do a challenge to overcome the block. Then I couldn’t decide which challenge. Then I had writer’s block while putting this post together. A trifecta of indecision! While enjoying the art at Marjie Kemper’s blog I found out [...]
Pure precision work-that’s what is NOT on this canvas. There are no scientific formulas here. But there is fun. I had my spark of inspiration which took me out of my head and into my art- Dina Wakley’s new paint lids stencil and a canvas. The circle theme made me happy so I grabbed old [...]
My art journaling is off the page and on the canvas this week. I am excited that I left so much white space here since I rarely seem to do that! Every time I thought about adding something it only detracted from it so that told me it was complete. I’m working with a painfully [...]
It’s week 3 of Dina Wakley’s Out of the Journal Challenge, Paint Party Friday , Art Journal Every Day and Frilly & Funkie’s canvas challenge so I needed to get painting. Started by gluing down old newspaper that protected the table when I was spray inking something. Don’t remember what I inked but [...]
My kids wondered why I was so happy- it was because of the mail. Not any mail but the package filled with Tangie Baxter’s new rubber stamps. I’m a huge fan of her digital goodies at Scrapbookgraphics.com so when I saw she was making stamps I had to buy them. Here is the first one [...]
Dina Wakley’s Out of the Journal challenge has been making my head hurt. It’s not her fault. It’s me. Is this a canvas or an art journal page (just not in a journal)? I’ve pondered (which lead to the head hurting) how I would define art journaling and the answer that is best for me [...]
A happy box of spray inks arrived in the mail. I decided to play with wild abandon. I put the vintage doily and a butterfly stencil by Julie Balzer down and started spraying inks around. I thought I had picked some good colors to coordinate. Nope. Ugly. Yucky. But I am not a quitter. I [...]
