While visiting wonderful Creative Every Day blogs, I had an ah-ha moment while reading Ajax’s blog post. Two simple words, allow happiness. Her words prompted this journal spread. This page was finished while my Internet was down – down from the night before until dinner. The whole family was in terror, panic, fearful of life [...]
Mixed Media
Happy Paint Party Friday! Painting with my fingers is pure joy. Using bright colors and seeing the paints blend is just happiness. My inner critic was getting too loud, so I decided to finger paint. No plan, no expectations, no goals. Just fun. After a few swirls and smudges, I saw a head. An imaginary [...]
When it snows I am filled such a magnificent feeling, okay, only when I am at home, warm and safe. I do not feel this way about snowfalls when I am driving. I wanted to be reminded of my snow feelings so I decided to create a journal page. I began to flip through [...]
The kids now have a bit of color – more like a rainbow exploded on them…This paper was just cheap cardstock for the printer from the office store. Not art paper. I used watercolors and watercolor crayons. NO PILLING. SMOOTH. I have been working on a 3/4 face for the Lifebook class. I used watercolor [...]
I want to learn to draw, especially faces. So I signed up for Carla Sonheim’s class, Faces 101. I am drawing faces! I love how she structures her classes. My kids were willing models for my quick left handed with a sharpie sketch. They are such good sports. Emma’s eyes are actually right across from [...]
In my last post I showed you how I made background papers with gesso and slick stix. The papers obviously make great backgrounds but I also like to use it for die cuts. I cut a several at a time and then they are ready when the muse strikes. [...]
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I took a few days off from the computer and I’ve missed it! This piece is just a big experiment. It started as layers of glossy magazine text and a die cut leftover randomly glued down. Then a thin layer of gesso. Then a bumble bee stencil. Ho [...]
Christmas preparations are consuming so much of my time that I had to work hard to find time for art today. But I found it!!! I’ve been playing with my spatula for spread colors. It has more control than a credit card and makes less mess than a brayer. To do this one I squirted [...]
Do you ever look at something and know you must cover it in paint? A cardboard box spoke to me. Once I had the painted the cardboard the tree die cut started whispering that it was just what I needed. Once I had the tree things just started jumping out at me. Oh, my, this [...]
My Paint Party Friday piece with only 3 Colors? Really? I doubted Diana Trout when she taught a class on using only 3 colors. I shouldn’t doubt her. She changed my world – I am now in love the 3 primary colors. I did learn the hard way that cheap paints don’t color mix as [...]
