Culture Shock

So here is a page duo asking the question Is the shock of Vegas night life too much for me??? I used Tulip paint cannons, paint taggers and the big phat marker. I love how the paint taggers are a little dimensional and have a nice gloss to them!

Vegas Projects

So here are pics showing 2 of the the 3 class projects I made. I took Stephanie Lee's Selective Seeing, and it was fabulous. Of course I could watch her work all day long, so inspiring. We took large format, high contrasting black and white copies, and then selectively painted out or painted in or just painted what we saw. I loved the four I did using older family photos.
The second project was Thomas Ashman 's Copper and glass mini journal. This was hard work!!! Thankfully Thomas gave us chocolate to calm us down when we got frustrated. I ate all of my chocolate!!!
The third class I took was supposed to be with Judy Wise, but she could not make it. Sad! I love her journal work. I did however get to use one of her Beatles "LOVE" Cirque Du Soleil tickets, though. That was awesome~So I did not post my journal work, as there were no new techniques done during the class. Still had fun though!

Vegas Art and Soul

So my trip to Vegas was amazing. I made a trip to the Bellagio to see the Gardens that they had redone for Chinese New Year. It was so beautiful, I loved it!

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Countdown to Vegas!!

I am very excited to be getting ready to go to Art&Soul in Las Vegas. The last few years I have been to the West Coast A&S (not Portland yet, but soon!!) that has been held at Asilomar. I have loved every minute of it.

The location, the atmosphere, the serenity, the inspirtation. So I have been wondering how all of that will translate into an art retreat in Vegas. Now, don't get me wrong, I love me some Vegas. And I love Art&Soul, so I am very excited to see how the two mesh next week.

I have all these plans in my head for when I am not in class, that mostly include naps and journaling and more naps and gambling, and napping!! LOL, yeah, I do love a good nap.

So I have all of my supplies, a few to share, and orders for what I can get from Maria. I was signed up for a journal class with Judy Wise, but she can't make it. I do love her journal work, but I am sure Glenny has sent a fabulous replacement.

I have been doing lots of pages using the Tulip Cannon and graffiti stencils, and show a few more here. Mostly used as backgrounds and not so much focal point. They sure do make for an easy and cool background though!!

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Just blogged new journal pages using the Tulip Paint Cannon and stencils. Love this product
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More Tulip Cannon Pages

I do love these lovely little painty sprayers. The pink and blue together are fabulous, and I loved making a whole block wall out of the brick stencil. It's just fun!!!

Cool new product

So my Facebook friend, Pam C. posted a few times about a cool new product she was trying out called Tulip Paint Cannons. They are fabric paints, used in a spray tube that you pump up with air and use like spray paint. I was needing to paint some patterns on a school project for my son, and I thought since my surface was not flat, that these would work great. Off to Michael's I went. I bought a few different colors, but only one paint cannon. That won't work, so I will be going back for several more cannons. I am not one to clean something out everytime I want to change colors.

These cannons, with the graffiti stencils that are part of the line, worked very nice. I should have practiced a little more to get the hang of it before I painted on the boy's project material, but it came out ok. I then moved on to my journals...fun fun fun!!!!!

These are a couple of pages I did. I only used the paint sprayer on the city scape, but then I used the paper towel I blotted the stencil on for the next page like a reverse stencil. Cool.

I also used a couple of the stencils over a hand drawn steampunk city background, but here I used Colorbox chalks for the color. I love how these pages came out. Thanks Pam!!!

Send Off!

So tomorrow these, and more will get mailed off to Somerset for the Spring Art Journals Magazine. I wonder what my odds are to be published twice?? Hmmmm, we'll see!

Late Happy New Year

Well, it's not THAT late. It is, after all, still January. Busy month so far. A couple of Journal pages from the newest journal. I finished 2009's and whipped up 2010! The first one reads" Do you Ever Feel Like:....a fish outta water, lost and floundering, swimming down the middle of the street?"