Whew!! We took it all apart thinking it would be easier to paint, but it was a major deal to re-assemble it!! There were lots of pieces to paint, but I finally got it done! In the picture below, you can see the back side of the little insert that I covered with zebra tissue [...]
The challenge this month from Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team Crusade 38 is to paint tissue paper with gesso and acrylic while you are doing the same on your journal pages, then apply the tissue paper layers.
I admit I did three spreads before I got one I liked. The first two just didn’t look like [...]
Mister had no concept of junking when I met him. He’s been to a few garage sales, but he NEVER took anything out of a dumpster, for sure! Since he met me he has learned that I find value in many things he previously considered trash.
During a January snow storm, he went to [...]
Lucy Baribeau has just opened sign-ups for artists to submit art for her next yearly calendar/diary. It’s a great opportunity to share your art for her yearly publication. Check it out here.
EDIT: I mistakenly said this was Suzan Buckner’s project when I originally posted it. The links are correct but it is Lucy Baribeau that [...]
Valentine’s Omens
Last year on Valentine’s Day, Randy and I found this rock on the edge of a brook. We thought it was great sign that we found a heart on valentine’s day, when we were newly in love and planning our wedding.
This year we found another sign on Valentine’s Day. Ironically, it more of a [...]
This winter has been challenging for me. We have had an usually cold and snowy winter which has kept me in most of the time. I am an extrovert and need a lot of people around to keep me energized. I have gradually felt my energy draining and now I am at a low point, [...]
When I do art journal pages, my main purpose is to write. I love doing art to create a page to write on, but I don’t create a piece of art in my journal. I create a page that allows me to write because writing is the way I document my life. I write about [...]
Go here to sign up for a drawing for a class with Julie Pritchard and a Golden company artist teaching a mixed media painting class!
Remember last month when I did my first GPP Street team challenge and tried to cut snowflakes? That was a disaster. This month the crusade is to create a journal page (actually I think it said spread, but I misread it and only did a page) with X’s and O’s. Here is my page. I’m [...]
I carved a couple of stamps yesterday. It reminded me of a few I had carved a few years ago, so I stamped them all to show you.
I carved them out of thick rubber. I don’t know what it’s called but you buy it at craft stores. There is a section that sells these rubber [...]
