Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Chronicles ~Week 7

My cartoon day or should I say days....I've been feeling like a duck lately.
Drowning in diamond rain and sleet and dreaming of ocean waves.
A Tip in page with what ALWAYS makes me happy, riding, seeing or thinking about any kind of horse!
I'm excited about upping my art, about some advice given to me by some awesome artists.
This also fits in with my long term goal.....getting better and better and having way too much fun!
DOODLES ~ I'm still doodling with inks, paints and straws. 
Found poetry:
When
They had put
Out of their minds
The cottage next door
One thing led to another
And
The edge of the park
Has to go to the beach
And
Transform.







Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Chronicals ~ Week 5 ~ page 1

Fun with
Extraterrestrial Culture Day!
Yep, Feb. 12th is Extraterrestrial Culture Day!
Markers, coloured pencil and ink.

More pages to come!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Monday, February 10, 2014

The most beautiful art in my journal!

My grandson's precious hours old teeny feet!: )

Chronicles- Week 3

This is as far as I could get with week three. I drew my dream and played with water colours!
The early arrival of my wee grandson took up the rest of my happy time! :)

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Book of Days Week 5

Behind once again :) week 3 on the way.
Week 4 - What feeds my soul in images.

Wildly Inspired Week 4

I didn't have a picture I wanted to rework so I just went with something different.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

29faces in February 2014!

This is as far as I got last night.
My first face in February ....cuz I'm behind...as usual ;)

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Journal52 Week Four - Building Character

I decided to just have fun with week four's prompt.....Building Character and here she is :)

Monday, January 27, 2014

Book Of Days Basic - Week Three - What Lies Beneath!


Book Of Days Basic - Week Three - What Lies Beneath!
I thought about roots a lot this week. Mine are tangled and mysterious so I tried to use one of the other prompts and it turns out that it does start with roots. I've come to realize that the tangled mess of my roots has led me to the amazingly gorgeous branches of my true tribe (family). All the wonderful, caring, freaky, fun, happy, sad, creative people I have been blessed to have as my branches! I threw some glitter around to honor The Glitterhood!  

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Chronicle Journal - Week Two!

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Chronicles Journal ~ Week Two

I watched a lot of YouTube mixed media art videos and over the next year I'm going to try as many of them as I can.
I saw one that reminded me of my younger years, blowing your paint with a straw!! 
So, I wanted to give it a try again....I love how the paint flows out in all kinds of spidery directions and the fun designs, wonderful colours and just the joy randomness brings! 

I did however, forget that you gotta have a lot of breath in you when you start, :)

I also decided to give rubber-stamping a shot....it's harder than I thought, especially if you use paint and not ink but fun anyway.

I have a lot of photos of when I was in Alaska and climbed several glaciers, it was one of THE most magical times in my life. I didn't want to take them out of their albums, glue might have destroyed them. I found a magazine photo that shows two of my favorite things...PENGUINS! and GLACIERS! Yay!

I have waaayyyyy too much ribbon and mulberry paper so I destashed a bit here.

I doodled with ink and markers....no pencil first, crude but way fun!
One of my very favorite quotes is:
Art is the only way to run away without ever leaving home!
~Twyla Tharp~

My Journal52 posts are in my blog too, just search Journal52 if you'd like to see them.

Being able to not be so "precious" (my hubs word for it) with my art, worrying about whether it is "good enough" or not is absolutely amazingly freeing! 

See you Week Three!! :)


Monday, January 20, 2014

Anti-Journaling!

Anti-Journaling with Wonderstrange!

Chronicles Journal - Week One

So, my funny thing that happened today was that my phone was "blowin up"
All day and though it was with bunches of Happy Birthday love, it's constant beeping, dinging
and ringing almost drove me 'round the bend! *big smiles*

Accomplishments~
*Art Journal page finished for Effy Wild's Wildly Inspired FREE class.
*Started my Journal page for Wonderstrange's Chronicles Journal-Week One.
*FINISHED journal spread for Chronicles Journal!

Current favorite song~Overcomer by Mandisa.

Most memorable thing this week~Why ME of course, my birthday, the 19th of January
And my amazingly beautiful granddaughter drew me a fabulous birthday cake!!

Destashed several pieces of ribbon and mulberry paper!

What I'm most excited about...I didn't put it on the spread but it's doing this JOURNAL,

And rolling my eyes? Well, I did that several times but curtesy suggests I don't reveal the
offending person or persons...yet :)


Saturday, January 18, 2014

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Wildly Inspired

Another FREE class with Effy Wild Wildly Inspired!
Front of my Wildly Inspired Art Journal

And the back of my journal
Mixed Media
Acrylics, ribbon,yarn, rick rack, mulberry paper, handmade paper and plastic pearl string