I love fibers.  I really love fibers, especially this one. No idea how you’d knit or crochet with it (or any fiber for that matter).  I put a layer of gesso down on a book page & set the fiber in it.  Then a gentle brush of gesso on top (really I was just using my paint brush to push it down well).  A bit of water color and it is ready for journaling.

Confession time:  I don’t journal regularly.  I make the pages and give them as gifts.  I love journals, but the writing part I don’t do as much.  So, I dove in and journaled a few things that happened recently.  One of those things was when I had a playlist by my daughter’s favorite band, Panic and the Disco.  When she heard it she came running.  Later, when she was checking out photos on my camera she saw the page with Panic at the Disco in bold letters.  She came running to see the actual page in my journal.  Now I know how to get her attention- Panic at the Disco!  Linking up with Art Every Day Month and Just Journals.

I’m linking up with Art Every Day Month and Paint Party Friday.   I haven’t had a great deal of success with faces so I tend not to draw or paint them.  I’m tired of being afraid of faces.  The only way to get over it is to paint and draw faces.  I have learned a lot already with this face.  Like the pupils should not be looking straight ahead.  The eyes and lips are coming along acceptably.  No where near finished, but I feel I am on a decent path.  The nose?  What nose you say.  Well, I painted over the first several noses simply because they looked like the NOSE OF A MUPPET!  I am not being self deprecating – it really did look like that.  The nose is the feature that is giving me the most trouble.  I had to step away from it.  Any hints on how to draw a human nose?