For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

In the Heat of the Summer Had a go at acrylic finger painting today in my Art Journal today. I used the Week 14 Prompt for the Journal 52 Project  - Rain or Shine - which was to create a page about weather or your favorite season. It also meets the Week 7 prompt for The Documented Life Project which was to draw a shape and repeat it multiple times. I call this one "In the Heat of the Summer" I've had a whitish page that's just been sitting in my art journal.  I say whitish because it was a page gone wrong that I covered up with gesso.  The original color was a green Silks glaze and it wasn't quite dry when I covered it in gesso, so it tinted the gesso just a tinge of green.  I had taken different size bottle caps and twisted a bunch of circles in the wet gesso and had left it to dry. I've looked at it several time and wondered what I was going to do with it and so when I sat down at my desk today and opened my journal to that page, I decided I...

Art Journal Fun Took a little challenge on one of my facebook groups to use a painting by Donna Downey for inspiration.  It involved creating a background and then covering most of it up with black.   THAT was the hardest part...covering up all the pretty colors and paint layers on the back ground. Here is a picture of the completed page. ...and then some of the process. (WARNING - PICTURE LADEN POST!) I started by applying layers of acrylic with an old credit card. Then I started adding more colors using stencils. ...then a bit of stamping. Then I dug out some rub-ons and scattered them on the page. It needed some more pop, so I used the tip of my finger and added some bright red circles. Some doodling and dots and little bees.. (Although the bees don't really show once it's finished.) Decided on circle and flower placement... Then I started adding black paint.  I didn't didn't lik...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? Work in Progress...

Blogalong 30 Posts - 30 Days Art Washes Away Decided to play in my art journal today.   There was a page that I created a few months ago that didn't quite feel finished  and when I was mounting and playing with my Zettiology Stamps the other day,  I knew one of them would be perfect for that page. I sat down with my supplies and just played.   I didn't think about what I was doing, or how it was going to look, I just dabbed, rubbed, painted and scribbled.   I'm thinking I like it.  Love the big dust balls being washed away!

What's on YOUR Workdesk Wednesday? My desk is actually fairly clean as I have been working very hard at putting away what I use before I go to bed at night.  Since I share my desk with 2 kitties, it doesn't do well to leave pots of paint and water or piles of inkpads out on the desk. Here's a journal page that is on my desk this morning.  I had tucked it under the desk on a shelf to dry overnight and pulled it out to take a look at it this morning. I've been really bad about posting my WOYWW (What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday) as usually I don't have anything on my desk on Wednesday.  I don't do much art at my desk on Tuesday nights and I'm off and running on Wednesday mornings to my day job.  But this week, I had started a project on Monday for Mixed Media Mondays and wanted to work on it some more. Well...it's off to the day job!  Board Meeting day and I have to minutes to take, so it will be a long one for me. See you soon! ...

Art Journal On Monday nights  after Boy Scouts I like to come home and join Tracy Weinzapfel and friends in a chat called Mixed Media Mondays.  Tracy always does a journal page LIVE on-line during the chat, and most of the time I dabble in my art journal at the same time.  Some times I follow along with her theme and other times my muse leads me in a different direction.    Here are a couple more pages from my journal I'd like to share.  The background is created with Gelatos by Faber Castell.  You can find out more about them at Design Memory Craft.   They are soft and creamy and the colors are super rich.  I just love working with them!   For these pages I also have used rub-on, Copic markers, rubber stamps and oil pastels.  If it is within reach it is fair game.   Well...enjoy!! I'm headed off to work!!   Be Such...   Heart and Soul    

Gelato Play in my Art Journal We are feeling a bit of cooler weather and fall breezes here in central Florida, which we don't have very often.  We usually go straight from HOT to our version of cold.  We are all enjoying our beautiful Mini-Fall and I thought I'd do a little tribute page in my art journal. Golden Gesso and Ground to prep the paper. Faber-Castell Gelatos for a pretty and soft blended background and for coloring the leaves. I used Ranger Archival Black for stamping the leaves. The leaf stamp is one that I carved using a Speedball carving block and tools about 15 years ago.  I found it in my stash and pulled it to play! Journaling printed on watercolor paper with my injet printer and distressed with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and glued to my journal and coated with Glossy Accents. Added little dew drops to the leaves with Glossy Accents. Happy Fall Everyone!!

Hope Blooms Mixed Media Mondays with Tracy Weinzapfel Studios Acrylic on Gesso Art Journal page. I used paper cut flowers from an old song book, rub-ons and sticker letters along with a tiny splatter stamp. There are little white affirmations scattered across the page that you have to look close to find.  I used black half pearls for the flower centers. Lots of dabbing with a baby wipe and spritzing with the water bottle and drying with the heat gun. Once I finished I sealed it all over with a light coat of PPA matte. The picture doesn't do it justice because as usual it is 11 pm and I am taking pictures under those home fluorescent lights that make everything look funky.