My imagination ran away with the idea of another world while I was art journaling. Perhaps all those sci-fi shows I love like Stargate, Star Trek, and Dr. Who have had a bit of an impact on this page. But in true sci-fi fashion, I didn’t start out thinking I would find another language or [...]
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What you are seeing here is sarcasm in an art journal. Those scribbled words say “this is a great day to be me.” This was a not a joyous phrase, but one of sarcasm that came out of frustration with something. Basically, I was pouting about something in my art journal. What was the something? It [...]
My art journal cover started as play. No goal. No plan. I was just along for the ride. I thought I was just playing until an O.O.P.S. struck and then the muse opened the floodgates on me. I didn’t see it coming but it was just what I needed. *An O.O.P.S. is an outstanding opportunity presenting suddenly. [...]
This silly art journal page was a complete surprise to me. Why the surprise? I had no plan when I started so I had no idea where it was going to end up. It all started with the waves, created with this month’s StencilClub stencils that I designed for StencilGirl. This was just me dreaming of [...]
Freedom. I love the feeling of freedom…it is after all so freeing! So how do I get that freedom? I create stuff that stinks. Stuff that is absolutely no good. And that it is how I find freedom. I started with this canvas I stenciled and spray inked eons ago with Rembrandt’s Words. It has been sitting [...]
It was just going to take a moment because all I was doing was using up the last bits of color on the brushes. Don’t want to waste the any part of the rainbow after all. No reason to turn on the video camera. This is just cleaning off a few brushes. And then I [...]
A great big thank you to Maria McGuire for sharing her doodle and pen play for this blog post! She’s created art showing several ways you can use pens and stencils together. In the mandala above working with a stencil mask, Maria drew circles in graduating circumferences. Then she positioned the stencil mask of the [...]
While flipping through my art journals to find a page to play with today, I landed on one that was horrifically ugly in my eyes. I could have cringed in horror when I saw the page. I could have ripped it out and thrown it away. I could have hidden the journal and never looked at [...]
I was Gelli printing® with the Doodle it Dream Landscape stencil and had the idea to use it as a coloring page. All those wonderful lines in black paint just screamed opportunity to play to me. You can see how how to make a reverse print with the Gelli Plate® in a video here. But…there was an [...]
I love creating big pieces of color and play. It’s my happy time when I am just letting the pattern and color build up. But what do I do with all those papers? One thing I do is die cut them. Here’s the paper I made with paints and spray inks and my Connected Eyes [...]
